Post by jknHi all
our front walkway is created from several concrete slabs. From the
https://i.postimg.cc/tgQWfqHq/IMG-20250208-093335.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/T24yFdrz/IMG-20250208-093349.jpg
On one of the slabs the surface has deteriorated in one area, so that
there is a 'crack', several inches across and two or three inches wide,
exposing the inner (badly mixed?) concrete and stones. The second photo
attempts to show this, but is not great, I'm afraid.
The crack is currently filled with pea gravel and dirt in an attempt to
stop it getting quickly worse. I'd like to make a better repair - any
advice on this please? I have mixed cement & concrete before but am not
very 'skilled in the art'.
Thanks, J^n
I don't understand. You say the slabs are 15cm or so deep. What do you
mean by 'deep'? They are very unlikely to be 15cm thick, but equally,
unlikely to be only 15mm thick if that was a mistype. Do you mean the
'going', in staircase parlance, i.e. the distance from the front edge
of the lower step/slab to the front edge of the next one up?
My approach would be to clean off the grass that's encroaching over
the slabs on the LH side, so that you can get a better idea as to
what's there. 15cm is a bit small for the width of a slab. Has the
someone just laid the slabs and found he has an inconvenient 15cm gap
where the last two meet, and just bridged it with coarse concrete,
which is now breaking up? I would then make (or buy) a single
half-slab to fit under the edge of slab further away from the camera
and overlapping the slab nearest the camera, scraping out or adding
soil where necessary to keep all the slabs level.
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I find overlapping slabs like this is a very good way of coping with
rising pathways.
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Chris