- 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
West Linton
West Linton is a town and also civil parish in southerly Scotland, on the A702. It was previously in the county of Peeblesshire, but since city government re-organisation in the mid-1990s it is now part of Scottish Borders. Most of its locals are travelers, owing to the town's distance to Edinburgh, which is 16 miles (26 km) to the north eastern. West Linton has a long history, and holds an annual traditional event called the Whipman Play. The village of Linton is of ancient origin. Its name stems from a Celtic element (cognate with the contemporary Irish Gaelic linn, Scottish Gaelic linne, as well as contemporary Welsh "Llyn") implying a lake or pool, a pool in a river, or a channel (as in Loch Linnhe, part of which is called An Linne Dhubh, the black pool, or Dublin, an Anglicisation of dubh as well as linn, meaning black swimming pool) and the Gaelic "dun" Welsh "din"), for a citadel, fortified area, or military camp (related to the modern English community, using the Saxon "tun", a ranch or collection of homes), and also is evidently ideal, as the town shows up to have actually been surrounded by lakes, swimming pools and also marshes. At one time it was called Lyntoun Roderyck, determined perhaps with Roderyck or Riderch, King of Strathclyde, whose territory included this area, or with a neighborhood chieftain of that name. The Scottish Gaelic variation of the place name is a partial translation, Ruairidh being a Gaelic type of Roderick. The prefix "West" was obtained many centuries later to clear up the distinction from East Linton in East Lothian.