Laying paving slabs for a greenhouse

How to prepare your ground before you install a greenhouse in your garden.
Includes details on calculating the area needed, selecting your paving slabs, and time lapse videos showing how to prepare the sand and cement base, how to screed it and time lapse videos of laying the slabs and cementing them in.
This is an easy walkthrough guide and was completed in a few days by a mum and her teenage kids.
Part One of Installing a Greenhouse. See Part Two for how to install the greenhouse.

[@Rubedo777]

Well done 👌 I’m laying a similar for a shed but using 20mm gravel first then grit sand mixed with a small amount of cement, laying it dry like you did and the paving slabs are dead heavy … I just needed to get the idea to get the slabs level. Good show, well done. ✅ 💙

[@gianlucabergamo6609]

Doing same job to install a palram greenhouse in my garden. I ve followed your tutorial and for now it looks very good. 😊

[@byjoveshesdoneit7590]

Thank you so much and I’m glad it was useful. Happy gardening!

[@malawi8663]

you guys have done a fantastic Job saved ;yourselves a lot of money to have a professional builder well done

[@byjoveshesdoneit7590]

Thank you!

[@barbcottingham6675]

Great video! You explain it so well and I am ready to try this myself. Thanks and happy gardening 👩‍🌾

[@byjoveshesdoneit7590]

Thank you so much for your nice words. I really enjoyed making the video and so I’m glad it’s helpful.

[@byjoveshesdoneit7590]

Good luck with installing your greenhouse - you won’t regret it. It’s great!

[@brendanmullen1677]

Will this still be ok not to use a whacker and not to put down some hardcore ?

[@scottrobertson5554]

Just a little tip. Better to mix kiln dried sand with cement to brush into the joints. Fills the joint better than sharp sand which contains larger grains.

[@byjoveshesdoneit7590]

Thanks - that’s really useful and definitely worth knowing. It was a huge learning curve for me so any advice is really welcomed!

[@cathygarlick9321]

I'm thinking of doing the same so this was the perfect video for me - so glad I found it.

[@janicejurgensen2122]

Yowza!! I am very impressed!! Great job!!

[@RelaxeandUnwind]

You should always use some form of sub base and. Compact each layer this looks good for what it's for well done

[@timdale4047]

Looks better than my effort! Gonna go with the sharp sand over what I have done cos it's such a pigs ear.

[@cl7267]

Clear instructions and well explained. Thank you.

[@HouseFairyDIY]

Well done! Lots of hard work! I'm doing the same myself at the moment.

[@Littlelamb2023]

Not a professional standard but that’s defo good enough. Well done for doing it yourself 💪🏽🙌🏽

[@spencerwilton5831]

my experience of "professionals" is that they turn up late, often days late- and expect you to be thankful they have even deigned to grace you with their presence. They do a substandard job, make a mess then hand you a bill big enough to collapse the economy of a small country. I do everything myself- it takes longer but the peace of mind knowing it's been done properly and no corners have been cut is worth it.

[@Smeds1]

@@spencerwilton5831 stop crying lad

[@tonystephengrayson]

​@@spencerwilton5831calm down dear

[@nickedmonton8223]

Do you have a followup so we can see if there was any settling, cracking, etc.? Thanks.

[@Listermintsluesh]

Well done a good job.

[@byjoveshesdoneit7590]

Thank you - I really enjoying putting it up and making the video!

[@ralphchristianson]

Impressive job, and coming from Canada I would like to say I really like your channel name....very aptly named..

[@PigCrafter]

I'm assuming when mixing the sand&cement you use water? Or do you not? And if so, how much for both laying slabs and pointing the gaps

[@dexterking9959]

New to your channel I like 👍

[@ESSBANJO]

very informative, will be helpfull re my shed base, thank you

[@byjoveshesdoneit7590]

Thank you! Good luck with your shed - it was hard work but well worth it.

[@avgconan4927]

This is great!

[@mollie3244]

You didn't use a sub base there and you didn't use a whacker plate. I would at least roll it with a heavy garden roller. Also, were you sitting on the slabs after you put them down on wet cement?? I mean I hope it worked out for you but I'd really like to see an update. Looks like this was posted four years ago.

[@eddiehaskell7225]

no felt or vinyl covering to keep the weeds out?.....I like your design.

[@kisilvan]

Thankyou for this

[@malcolmbray2562]

Very Good Video!

[@byjoveshesdoneit7590]

Thank you!

[@andreastevenson2173]

Thank you

[@ArmandoDominguez-h2w]

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[@steviesells8]

Love the video going to do mine as soon as good weather comes, Ps what do you use to edit your videos 😊👍

[@infiniteshotz2535]

Well it’s better than nothing i suppose lol 😂😂😂

[@ArmandoDominguez-h2w]

How to level a backyard ground

[@cromwellg60]

Great vid! Just a question, would it be worth putting aggregate down before the sharp sand if it’s going to be a heavier structure like a shed + contents? Laying my first base and want to get it right 😎 ta!

[@nikifrasier3026]

Where's part 2?

[@byjoveshesdoneit1391]

It's here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bojPepqbg5Z-kJY

[@nikifrasier3026]

Thank you!!

[@cameronbarker4201]

How not to lay a bace. It should have been dug out to 150mm below paving height a lest 75mm of mot in . Then string lines squared with each one. A wet sand a cement of 6 to 1. Lay in lines with string like tram lines. This way there will be know lips or rocking on each slabs.

[@chiselcheswick5673]

Now you have let everyone know how good you are, let's get back to reality and understand she admits its not a pro job and its only to put a green house on.

[@lindawright2447]

Maybe practice your spelling mate rather than troll people who put up genuinely helpful videos? Have you never heard of spellcheck?

[@lisahine5888]

How not to lay slabs!

[@chiselcheswick5673]

Thanks professor. I am sure you will be along at any minute with your expert video, wasting a load of time and money for what is only a few slabs for a greenhouse 🙄

[@tonystephengrayson]

​@chiselcheswick5673 to be fair, they're not even level to start with. How do you think it will look in 6 months? Let alone years. I won't be an easy fix once a greenhouse is on top

[@jeremywilkinson2111]

Possibly a good video but to be honest as soon as you started converting measurements from our feet and inches into metric ie) hundreds of millimetres right at the start, I have stopped watching. Sorry but I think its such a shame when people feel they have to express everything in metric when actually they don't

[@kurez677]

Bad old job that

[@ArmandoDominguez-h2w]

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