Tempest
Distinguished Member
About 15 ish years ago a local garden centre company that does garden improvement laid some large slabs over a concrete base.
However, what they did, which annoys the hell out of me, as for the sake of an extra tiny bit of money, they skimped on the sand/cement mix.
Over the years, water from the home, has washed underneath the slabs, and eroded some of the mix the slabs are bedded onto causing quick a few to be wobbly.
A few years ago, we paid an old local guy to repoint them all, and a lot of that had cracked now due to movement.
Now, I know the correct way would be to lift all the slabs up and re-do it all, but that's not going to happen!
I have this method in my mind that I'm wondering anyone might know about....
So you have a wobbly slab and want an easy-ish fix. What I'm imagining is something like a tube of mastic container, but full of a very creamy cement? mixture, which you can pump down in-between the gaps, where it will spread out a little and fix the wobble.
I know this is not the way it should be done, but in my mind I can see it working.
Any thoughts?
However, what they did, which annoys the hell out of me, as for the sake of an extra tiny bit of money, they skimped on the sand/cement mix.
Over the years, water from the home, has washed underneath the slabs, and eroded some of the mix the slabs are bedded onto causing quick a few to be wobbly.
A few years ago, we paid an old local guy to repoint them all, and a lot of that had cracked now due to movement.
Now, I know the correct way would be to lift all the slabs up and re-do it all, but that's not going to happen!
I have this method in my mind that I'm wondering anyone might know about....
So you have a wobbly slab and want an easy-ish fix. What I'm imagining is something like a tube of mastic container, but full of a very creamy cement? mixture, which you can pump down in-between the gaps, where it will spread out a little and fix the wobble.
I know this is not the way it should be done, but in my mind I can see it working.
Any thoughts?