Laying paving slabs for a greenhouse

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  • Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
  • How to prepare your ground before you install a greenhouse in your garden.
    Includes details on calculating the area needed, selecting your paving slabs, and time lapse videos showing how to prepare the sand and cement base, how to screed it and time lapse videos of laying the slabs and cementing them in.
    This is an easy walkthrough guide and was completed in a few days by a mum and her teenage kids.
    Part One of Installing a Greenhouse. See Part Two for how to install the greenhouse.

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  • @Rubedo777
    @Rubedo777 9 місяців тому

    Well done 👌 I’m laying a similar for a shed but using 20mm gravel first then grit sand mixed with a small amount of cement, laying it dry like you did and the paving slabs are dead heavy … I just needed to get the idea to get the slabs level. Good show, well done. ✅ 💙

  • @gianlucabergamo6609
    @gianlucabergamo6609 4 роки тому +4

    Doing same job to install a palram greenhouse in my garden. I ve followed your tutorial and for now it looks very good. 😊

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  4 роки тому +2

      Thank you so much and I’m glad it was useful. Happy gardening!

  • @malawi8663
    @malawi8663 4 роки тому +2

    you guys have done a fantastic Job saved ;yourselves a lot of money to have a professional builder well done

  • @barbcottingham6675
    @barbcottingham6675 4 роки тому +5

    Great video! You explain it so well and I am ready to try this myself. Thanks and happy gardening 👩‍🌾

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  4 роки тому

      Thank you so much for your nice words. I really enjoyed making the video and so I’m glad it’s helpful.

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  4 роки тому

      Good luck with installing your greenhouse - you won’t regret it. It’s great!

    • @brendanmullen1677
      @brendanmullen1677 3 роки тому

      Will this still be ok not to use a whacker and not to put down some hardcore ?

  • @janicejurgensen2122
    @janicejurgensen2122 2 роки тому +1

    Yowza!! I am very impressed!! Great job!!

  • @cathygarlick9321
    @cathygarlick9321 Рік тому

    I'm thinking of doing the same so this was the perfect video for me - so glad I found it.

  • @scottrobertson5554
    @scottrobertson5554 4 роки тому +11

    Just a little tip. Better to mix kiln dried sand with cement to brush into the joints. Fills the joint better than sharp sand which contains larger grains.

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  4 роки тому +1

      Thanks - that’s really useful and definitely worth knowing. It was a huge learning curve for me so any advice is really welcomed!

  • @RelaxeandUnwind
    @RelaxeandUnwind 2 роки тому +3

    You should always use some form of sub base and. Compact each layer this looks good for what it's for well done

  • @timdale4047
    @timdale4047 2 роки тому +2

    Looks better than my effort! Gonna go with the sharp sand over what I have done cos it's such a pigs ear.

  • @HouseFairyDIY
    @HouseFairyDIY 2 роки тому

    Well done! Lots of hard work! I'm doing the same myself at the moment.

  • @ESSBANJO
    @ESSBANJO 4 роки тому +1

    very informative, will be helpfull re my shed base, thank you

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  4 роки тому

      Thank you! Good luck with your shed - it was hard work but well worth it.

  • @Listermintsluesh
    @Listermintsluesh 4 роки тому +3

    Well done a good job.

  • @Littlelamb2023
    @Littlelamb2023 3 роки тому +4

    Not a professional standard but that’s defo good enough. Well done for doing it yourself 💪🏽🙌🏽

    • @spencerwilton5831
      @spencerwilton5831 3 роки тому +6

      my experience of "professionals" is that they turn up late, often days late- and expect you to be thankful they have even deigned to grace you with their presence. They do a substandard job, make a mess then hand you a bill big enough to collapse the economy of a small country. I do everything myself- it takes longer but the peace of mind knowing it's been done properly and no corners have been cut is worth it.

    • @Smeds1
      @Smeds1 2 роки тому +1

      @@spencerwilton5831 stop crying lad

    • @tonystephengrayson
      @tonystephengrayson Рік тому

      ​@@spencerwilton5831calm down dear

  • @cl7267
    @cl7267 4 роки тому +3

    Clear instructions and well explained. Thank you.

  • @avgconan4927
    @avgconan4927 2 роки тому

    This is great!

  • @ralphchristianson
    @ralphchristianson 3 роки тому

    Impressive job, and coming from Canada I would like to say I really like your channel name....very aptly named..

  • @dexterking9959
    @dexterking9959 2 роки тому

    New to your channel I like 👍

  • @andreastevenson2173
    @andreastevenson2173 4 роки тому +2

    Thank you

  • @nickedmonton8223
    @nickedmonton8223 Рік тому +1

    Do you have a followup so we can see if there was any settling, cracking, etc.? Thanks.

  • @PigCrafter
    @PigCrafter 3 роки тому +2

    I'm assuming when mixing the sand&cement you use water? Or do you not? And if so, how much for both laying slabs and pointing the gaps

  • @malcolmbray2562
    @malcolmbray2562 4 роки тому +3

    Very Good Video!

  • @kisilvan
    @kisilvan 4 роки тому +3

    Thankyou for this

  • @steviesells8
    @steviesells8 3 роки тому +1

    Love the video going to do mine as soon as good weather comes, Ps what do you use to edit your videos 😊👍

  • @eddiehaskell7225
    @eddiehaskell7225 3 роки тому

    no felt or vinyl covering to keep the weeds out?.....I like your design.

  • @infiniteshotz2535
    @infiniteshotz2535 Рік тому +1

    Well it’s better than nothing i suppose lol 😂😂😂

  • @mollie3244
    @mollie3244 6 місяців тому

    You didn't use a sub base there and you didn't use a whacker plate. I would at least roll it with a heavy garden roller. Also, were you sitting on the slabs after you put them down on wet cement?? I mean I hope it worked out for you but I'd really like to see an update. Looks like this was posted four years ago.

  • @user-ie2hp9vm3g
    @user-ie2hp9vm3g Рік тому

    How to prepare ground floor slabs of stone

  • @user-ie2hp9vm3g
    @user-ie2hp9vm3g Рік тому

    How to level a backyard ground

  • @cromwellg60
    @cromwellg60 3 роки тому

    Great vid! Just a question, would it be worth putting aggregate down before the sharp sand if it’s going to be a heavier structure like a shed + contents? Laying my first base and want to get it right 😎 ta!

  • @nikifrasier3026
    @nikifrasier3026 3 роки тому

    Where's part 2?

  • @cameronbarker4201
    @cameronbarker4201 3 роки тому +4

    How not to lay a bace. It should have been dug out to 150mm below paving height a lest 75mm of mot in . Then string lines squared with each one. A wet sand a cement of 6 to 1. Lay in lines with string like tram lines. This way there will be know lips or rocking on each slabs.

    • @chiselcheswick5673
      @chiselcheswick5673 3 роки тому +10

      Now you have let everyone know how good you are, let's get back to reality and understand she admits its not a pro job and its only to put a green house on.

    • @lindawright2447
      @lindawright2447 3 роки тому +5

      Maybe practice your spelling mate rather than troll people who put up genuinely helpful videos? Have you never heard of spellcheck?

  • @lisahine5888
    @lisahine5888 4 роки тому +10

    How not to lay slabs!

    • @chiselcheswick5673
      @chiselcheswick5673 3 роки тому +11

      Thanks professor. I am sure you will be along at any minute with your expert video, wasting a load of time and money for what is only a few slabs for a greenhouse 🙄

    • @tonystephengrayson
      @tonystephengrayson Рік тому +1

      ​@chiselcheswick5673 to be fair, they're not even level to start with. How do you think it will look in 6 months? Let alone years. I won't be an easy fix once a greenhouse is on top

  • @jeremywilkinson2111
    @jeremywilkinson2111 7 місяців тому

    Possibly a good video but to be honest as soon as you started converting measurements from our feet and inches into metric ie) hundreds of millimetres right at the start, I have stopped watching. Sorry but I think its such a shame when people feel they have to express everything in metric when actually they don't

  • @kurez677
    @kurez677 Рік тому

    Bad old job that

  • @user-ie2hp9vm3g
    @user-ie2hp9vm3g Рік тому

    How to prepare the ground for stone