How to lay a porcelain patio slab 

Beautiful work and lovely footage buddy. That mix looks so satisfying to work with!

thanks for the tips, im a plasterer by trade about to lay a patio at home so youtube is my friend atm 😊👍👍

good job I've found from experience using a plastering trowel is faster for spreading your bed and your adhesive

Quality work. Love your videos. I'm laying a patio for the first time this weekend. Any tips would be great! Would you advise putting primer onto concrete slabs before laying them or is that just for porcelain slabs?

Nice job, I will try to inspire from it. I think I asked you already, would you use porcelain 20mm or natural buff slabs of 38mm thickness for car use? Thanks

Are you using sharp sand or building sand for your mix. Sharp is always better for strength and curing times as a motar mix with building sand takes so much longer to go off

looks awesome

Laying on a wet mix glues the slab to the mortar and they will never separate. It can also, and often does, settle after laying leaving a low or high point. If there is ground movement or settlement the only way to relay is to break up the slab and lay a new one. Traditional mason paviors use sharp sand and cement dry mix which still goes solid but remains flexible enough for relay and doesn’t sag after laying. Of course, using a wet mix enables the DIY person to lay as the traditional method requires skill. I see lots of patios where the slabs have been laid on mortar blobs. This leaves a void into which all manner of vegetation and insects can move in.

The arrows on the back of the tiles are there for the factory to calibrate their systems. If at quality check there is a discrepancy in the cut edge of tile the arrow will indicate which part of the cutting process is faulty. Nothing to do with laying direction of slab, although you can of course follow the arrows if you wish.

Hi there. Nice work. Whats Primer mix? Or of the shelf?

Do you work from grass to building purposely, to leave cut tiles closest to the building and full tiles closest to the lawn ?

Nice! Is it possible with that metod för ordinary inndor klinker? Just stones then wet concrete to put the tile in

Wouldn't recommend leaving a perimeter gap in bedding material as this prevents a 'backstop' for grouting and would lead to grouting failure over time. Always best to have the full bedding throughout. No gaps.

Will you put any grout between tiles or leave like this, so water just go down to the base?

5-7 business days later he laid that tile

lovely looking slabs, where are they from?

How about fall to allow for drainage so patio doesn't become flooded?

How much to do this

Wow I bet you get through so tubs of grout 😂😂

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Good job you not on price work buddy...

I'd of laid 5 flags by the time you primed that 😫

Just another DIY er pretending to be a paver. Wet mix is bad!