I don't have a big garden - 4m wide by roughly 5m long, and the previous owner, a single man like me, wasn't a gardening fan, also like me So he made it low maintenence and just basicially threw shingle down all over it, leaving a couple flower beds along the sides with a bush, and two connifers.

I fucking hate shingle I like to come out barefoot, and thats not comfortable on shingle. Fucking stuff gets dragged into the house. Fucking hate it.

So since I had a couple days off, I did this;



50 slabs later (well 48 cos I need to cut two to fit round the drainpipes), 4 bags of sand and 4hrs sweating like a pedophile in a playground I have this;



4m x 2m almost level patio I wasn't going at it full on proper, with hardcore and cement etc - just leveled out the soil best as poss, laid down some anti weed matting, covered in sand and malleted them in as close to flat as poss. Some are a little wobbly, and there is height descrepency on quite a few (most ) but fuck it, cost me £80 all in for the slabs and sand and I've never done any of this type of stuff before, so I'm quite chuffed with myself

 

Looks great mate, helped a mate do hers the other week and had the same issues !

As we said it looks a fuck lot better than it did !

 

Put a post in the ground to tie your horse to. That looks awful even with my eyesight

 

Cheers Nath - I'm a windscreen fitter, not a builder. Personally I think I did fucking well as it's pretty much level (as in not on the piss) and I can walk on it. Can't really ask for much more

 

Looks good mush,put sand over the top and brush it into the gaps as well,finish it off nice.a builder would have charged you about £500 for that and it wouldn't have looked any better.couple of planters now and you'll have a proper little retreat.

 

You do like ya gardening don't ya!!!!

Looks well enough to me, just leave it to settle for a bit and put some more sand under as and when!

 

I was going to say about the brushing some sand over it but wasn't sure if you dids that after the pic was taken !

Looks ideal, thank fook mines already been done here

 

Kiln dried sand though!

not a bad job considering its on dirt though. its satisfying knowing you've dont it yourself though lol.

 

love it, better than I could do thats for sure

 

That's roughf as fuk but fair play 4have'ing a go

 

looks good mate for a first timer id be well pleased wish i could do something like that mine would look a shambles

 

looks ok mate.

 

I brushed some sand into the gaps on a few stones - then ran out Gonna get a bag of finer sand, as the sharp sand I had wasn't great for it anyway...

Mal - fooking HATE gardening!