It can permanently cover a multitude of sins and look great.
Can concrete be laid over paving slabs.
Create the mortar mix add a 30mm layer 4.
Scrape away the excess sand and cut off the excess landscape fabric with a utility knife.
Laying pavers over a concrete patio may work fine since it will experience little stress but a driveway constructed in this way may not be able to stand the stresses of vehicles.
Prepare your concrete 2.
To save time and money many states and municipalities use a road repair technique known as whitetopping the process of pouring concrete over asphalt rather than removing the existing asphalt.
It should be laid fairly dry with the rule of thumb being that you canb squeeze a ball in your hand and it should stay in one lump but no water should come out.
The slabs can be laid on sharp sand doug although we prefer to mix it with cement at a 6 1 ratio.
Lay the field pavers over concrete as you would on any paver patio.
But the fact that resin bound surfacing is a thin section screed 12 to 18mm and can be laid on existing surfaces concrete tarmac paving etc is actually one if it s main strengths.
Ultimately whether or not laying pavers on top of the pre existing slab will depend on the project type itself.
Lay the paving slabs leaving 8 to10mm spaces between them 5.
Existing tired tarmac driveway.
Glue down the last border patio blocks.
Cracked concrete patchwork slab in your garden.
If that s the case laying pavers on concrete shouldn t take you too long.
Prime the back of the flags with a cement based primer 3.
When they are placed over a granular sub base as shown on the gravels construction page the gravels can bed in to the sub base surface and so become lightly bound and unlikely to roll or move on a hard surface there is no opportunity to bed in the material just sits on top of the surface.
With rigid bound bedding mortar or concrete it is highly unlikely that the old bed will perfectly accommodate the new paving so it should be removed prior to laying new.
There is nothing to bind these loose materials.
There may be a temptation to lay a new bed directly over the old but this too is not always a sound plan.