Sand and cement between block paving??

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I just spent a happy couple of hours scraping the moss from between the paving blocks in the back yard, so, I'm wondering if I re-sand it, would it be an idea to mix a little cement powder in with the silver sand, so it sets a bit harder and the moss and ants and stuff doesn't breed so avidly?

Or will it make a mess where it is scattered on the blocks?

Or is there anything else worth putting down to keep the maintenance to a minimum?

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CatherineJ said:

New Kiln Dried Sand and a Stabelising Solution. I've forgotten the name of itb but Marshalls do it and it can be ordered from your local builders merchants if you tell them what you are looking for.

I have the same problem and have the joy of doing this in a week or so. I sprayed off all the yuk with weedkiller last Friday.

Thanks, I'll look into it.

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mrmaggit said:

1/ Why do people always scrape the weeds out by hand, together with piles of the sand, wasting hours and hours then come on here asking what to do, when they could have had the answer before they started that would have saved them hours? (no offence meant KH). They solution (before you started doing what you've just done) is to coat the area with Sodium Chlorate weedkiller. This is indiscriminate, so be careful if the run-off is into flowerbeds or onto a lawn. Leave to activate, brush away detritus a few days later.

I actually only did a smallish portion, and came fishing here for better ideas. Hey presto, I got them.

Off to the garden shop for some Sodium Chlorate weed killer I reckons.

Strangely Brown said:

I use one of these. Dead easy and does the job a treat.

http://www.capitalgardens.co.uk/v3/miracle-block-p...

That looks like a good invention. If Mr maggits chemical warfare doesn't work I'll be buying one of those brushes.

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mrmaggit said:

Sorry if I came across a bit tearing hair out KH, but I get this maybe 6 times every Saturday morning.

Sometimes when we go to see Lorraines' parents her Dad is on the drive, covered from head to foot in sand and weeds, jet-wash in hand, bemoaning the weeds growing "through" his block paving. I must have told him a dozen what to do, but he just kinda looks blank and carries on with the jet-wash.

My first and easiest method was to do nothing, just wait and see if the wife or mum in law would do it while was away offshore half my life.

But a year has gone, nothing has been done, there is now weeds and grass growing out like hair from an old mans ear 'ole.



Chemical weaponry will soon be introduced to the arena.

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I found a bottle of Sodium Chlorate crystal in the shed, so I've liberally does some areas of the front year block paving. I shall do some more in a moment. Too hot earlier I think, as the stuff evaporated before it had time to settle in for the kill.