Brush-in jointing compounds like EasyJoint, Joint-It, Pavetuf, Sika Fastfix, Weatherpoint 365 are becoming quite popular among professionals and DIYers because of their easy application. No need to deal with mixing sand and cement to make traditional mortar and point joint by joint with a trowel breaking your back and knees is the best thing about…
Of course, there’re product calculators from the brands themselves to calculate how many tubs or bags of jointing compound do you need based on the details you enter about the patio, slab, and joint size but you just get a number or quantity required from those calculators. The quantity that the calculators will tell you…
Usually, sharp sand isn’t preferred to make the mortar mix for pointing the patios and many professionals don’t use and recommend sharp sand for pointing. I saw a video from B&Q on how to lay a patio in which they used sharp sand in the ratio of 5:1 to point the patio and their explanation…
If you have recently finished a patio and the pointing has cracked, there can be many reasons for it. Cracks in the pointing of a recently laid patio may occur because the base on which the patio has been laid is not appropriate, slab movement, pointing dried out too quickly, ground heave and walking on…
I’ve watched almost all the videos on YouTube on pointing patios using mortar guns or pointing guns just to know what is the best mortar mix for a pointing gun to point a patio and share here with you. If you have got the right mortar mix, the pointing gun can work a treat. However,…
There’re probably a hundred techniques to point a patio, some of them are much easier and faster and some requires time. Even on top of that, some people just take their own time to do everything properly so, it can require way more time than you may have thought. Everyone has their own way of…
Whether you’re getting a professional in to lay a new patio or wanting to do it yourself and want to know how long will it take to lay down the patio, this post will give you an idea about how long will take to lay down a patio with different examples. In the process of…
Are your worried about the grouting stains at the time of pointing your patio, and hence want to seal it before pointing or there’s any other reason for which you want to seal your patio before pointing or grouting. This post might help you to know whether is it appropriate to seal the patio before…
Patios can be done in many different ways, with different materials, in different sizes, at different locations, and from different people. So this many variables to the job make it very difficult to price it up. I’ve tried to get as much data as possible here in this post from laying down a new patio…