- How to build a shed base out of paving slabs
- Mix sand and cement together to make mortar or use a pre-mixed one
- Use a trowel to lay mortar for 1 slab at a time on the sub-base and lift a damp-sided slab onto the mortar, using a piece of timber and club hammer to tap the slab into position carefully. Continue to lay the first row of slabs
- Make equally-sized spacers in all the joints in the slabs to ensure they’re the same size, checking it’s level as you go along
- Next lay slabs along the two adjacent outer edges, filling in the central area row by row
- Leave the mortar to set according to the instructions or for at least 48 hours before filling in the joints with mortar or paving grout
- Building a shed base from concrete
- Create a wooden frame around your shed base area (also called formwork) to stop the concrete from spreading
- Mix pre-mixed concrete with water or use 1 part cement to 5 parts ballast
- Wet the sub-base using a watering can with a rose on the end
- Pour the concrete onto the framed base starting in one corner
- Push the blade of a shovel up and down in the edges of the concrete to get rid of air bubbles
- Use a rake to spread the concrete, leaving it around 18mm higher than the top of the frame. Work in sections of around 1-1.m2
- Compact the concrete using a straight piece of timber that’s longer than the width of the base. Move the timber along the site, hitting it along at about half of its thickness at a time until the surface is evenly ridged
- Remove excess concrete and level the surface by sliding the timber back and forwards from the edge that you started. Fill in any depressions and repeat until even
- Run an edging trowel along the frame to round off exposed edges of the concrete and prevent chipping
- Cover the concrete with a plastic sheet raised on wooden supports to allow slow drying. Weigh it down with bricks
- Once the concrete is set, you can install your shed and remove the wooden frame with a crowbar
Tain
Tain is an imperial burgh and also parish in the Region of Ross, in the Highlands of Scotland. The name derives from the close-by River Tain, the name of which originates from an Indo-European root significance 'flow'. The Gaelic name, Baile Dubhthaich, means 'Duthac's town', after a regional saint additionally referred to as Duthus. Tain was provided its initial royal charter in 1066, making it Scotland's earliest royal burgh, celebrated in 1966 with the opening of the Rose Garden by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The 1066 charter, given by King Malcolm III, verified Tain as a haven, where people can assert the security of the church, as well as a resistance, in which citizen sellers and investors were exempt from specific taxes. These led to the advancement of the town. Little is known of earlier history although the town owed a lot of its value to Duthac. He was an early Christian figure, perhaps 8th or 9th century, whose temple had become so crucial by 1066 that it resulted in the imperial charter. The spoiled church near the mouth of the river was said to have been built on the site of his birth. Duthac came to be an official saint in 1419 and by the late Middle Ages his shrine was a crucial locations of pilgrimage in Scotland. King James IV came with the very least yearly throughout his regime to achieve both spiritual and also political aims. A leading landowning household of the location, the Clan Munro, offered political and religious numbers to the town, consisting of the dissenter Rev John Munro of Tain (passed away ca. 1630). The early Duthac Church was the centre of a refuge. Fugitives were by practice given sanctuary in several square miles noted by boundary stones. During the First War of Scottish Independence, Robert the Bruce sent his wife and also little girl to the sanctuary for safety and security. The refuge was violated as well as they were recorded by forces loyal to William II, Earl of Ross who handed them over to Edward I of England The women were taken to England and also kept detainee for numerous years.