Best way to go about laying some patio slabs?

[Deluded]

Basically, we live in a rented house. The patio when we moved in was in need of replacement. It was cracked in numerous places and pretty unstable. We told the agent who told the landlord. The landlord then got some builders in to big up the patio. We assumed they would be laying a new surface but no, they dug up the old surface and fked off.

Turns out that was all the landlord told them to do, so we are left with no patio but instead, a st load of hardcore and rubble from when the house was built, that the concrete patio was laid on top of.

We intend to use the garden in the Summer, as we did last year, so need some kind of patio. The agent and landlord aren't interested so we have looked around and found someone local wanting to get rid of a load of patio slabs.

I want to lay them myself in place of the old patio. I don't want to make them a permenant feature as if we move I don't intend to leave them here, but should we stay here, I want them to be permenant enough for me to not have to relay them every few months.

What would be the best way to go about this?

Can I just get some builders sand and lay a 4-5cm layer over the hardcore and place the slabs on top?

[Defcon5]

Thats how I have laid mine, still in exactly the same place after 2 years.

[shimmey69]

Add a few bags of cement to the dry sand and this will help set and hold the slabs but is still easy to break up when you move!!

Ps landlord sounds like a right !!!

[pikeyboy]

Have a look on the paving expert web site. Loads of good stuff on laying slabs etc