Laying paving slabs for a greenhouse

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  • čas přidán 8. 09. 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.

Komentáře • 56

  • @Rubedo777
    @Rubedo777 Před 9 měsíci

    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 Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @malawi8663
    @malawi8663 Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @barbcottingham6675
    @barbcottingham6675 Před 4 lety +5

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

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  Před 4 lety

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

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  Před 4 lety

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

    • @brendanmullen1677
      @brendanmullen1677 Před 3 lety

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

  • @janicejurgensen2122
    @janicejurgensen2122 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @cathygarlick9321
    @cathygarlick9321 Před rokem

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

  • @scottrobertson5554
    @scottrobertson5554 Před 4 lety +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  Před 4 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety

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

  • @ESSBANJO
    @ESSBANJO Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  Před 4 lety

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

  • @Listermintsluesh
    @Listermintsluesh Před 4 lety +3

    Well done a good job.

  • @Littlelamb2023
    @Littlelamb2023 Před 3 lety +4

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

    • @spencerwilton5831
      @spencerwilton5831 Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +1

      @@spencerwilton5831 stop crying lad

    • @tonystephengrayson
      @tonystephengrayson Před rokem

      ​@@spencerwilton5831calm down dear

  • @cl7267
    @cl7267 Před 3 lety +3

    Clear instructions and well explained. Thank you.

  • @avgconan4927
    @avgconan4927 Před 2 lety

    This is great!

  • @ralphchristianson
    @ralphchristianson Před 3 lety

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

  • @dexterking9959
    @dexterking9959 Před 2 lety

    New to your channel I like 👍

  • @andreastevenson2173
    @andreastevenson2173 Před 4 lety +2

    Thank you

  • @nickedmonton8223
    @nickedmonton8223 Před rokem +1

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

  • @PigCrafter
    @PigCrafter Před 3 lety +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 Před 4 lety +3

    Very Good Video!

  • @kisilvan
    @kisilvan Před 4 lety +3

    Thankyou for this

  • @steviesells8
    @steviesells8 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety

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

  • @infiniteshotz2535
    @infiniteshotz2535 Před rokem +1

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

  • @mollie3244
    @mollie3244 Před 6 měsíci

    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 Před rokem

    How to prepare ground floor slabs of stone

  • @user-ie2hp9vm3g
    @user-ie2hp9vm3g Před rokem

    How to level a backyard ground

  • @cromwellg60
    @cromwellg60 Před 3 lety

    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 Před 3 lety

    Where's part 2?

  • @cameronbarker4201
    @cameronbarker4201 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +5

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

  • @lisahine5888
    @lisahine5888 Před 4 lety +10

    How not to lay slabs!

    • @chiselcheswick5673
      @chiselcheswick5673 Před 3 lety +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 Před rokem +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 Před 7 měsíci

    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 Před rokem

    Bad old job that

  • @user-ie2hp9vm3g
    @user-ie2hp9vm3g Před rokem

    How to prepare the ground for stone