I'm going to try doing a patio

[PositronicRay]

Are they std dumpy bags? Looks a lot of material for a 40sqm patio base

[BlindedByTheLights]

Looks right, about 12 ton there, I did 6 ton into an 18sq m base

[Chumley.mouse]

nunpuncher said:

Bugger!

Some prick parked their car blocking access to the lane at the back of the house. So this lot ended up in the front garden. So it's now going to mean a much longer walk with a wheelbarrow.

Should have stacked them 2-3 high, its a lot better/easier to shovel/scrape into a barrow if they are higher.

[nunpuncher]

PositronicRay said:

Are they std dumpy bags? Looks a lot of material for a 40sqm patio base

Think my camera settings are off or the lens on this phone has a strange depth of field because everything looks smaller. They are the standard c800kg bulk bags. They do seem lower and wider than usual which is a good thing.

I was happy for them to be single stacked as I can drag them round the back when I get to about 100kg.

Not kidding myself this will be easy but I like a tough workout and can take as long as I want to do this. Although the weather is set to turn so rain will turn.11t in to about 15+

[nunpuncher]

Progress update.

Driveway bit filled. Preempting all the "doesn't look deep enough" "that's not compacted" comments. I cut a 100x100 fence post in to blocks and placed the in the area. Compacted around them then pulled them out and filled the holes. The area closest to the garage has a channel dug in for the drains (garage regularly floods in heavy rain). The side has a channel to cement the edging in.


Got the first lot of base in to the narrow area. I decided to build L shaped stairs over the stty looking old ones. So I've filled the sub base to a point where I can start laying the blocks for that. Then I'll add a bit more type 1 on top of this. Hopefully you can see it's already pretty deep compared to this 100mm blocks.


Still 8 bags of type 1 to go.