Green Building Forum - elevated concrete/stone decks Sun, 31 May 2026 00:10:15 +0100 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.0.3 elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=192660#Comment_192660 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=192660#Comment_192660 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 16:08:24 +0000 owlman elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=192661#Comment_192661 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=192661#Comment_192661 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 16:13:19 +0000 owlman
http://www.wallbarn.com/adjustable-plastic-paving-support-pads/]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=192691#Comment_192691 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=192691#Comment_192691 Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:21:14 +0000 ferdinand2000
That's interesting, since they only seem to cost about a fiver each.

Ferinand]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=192708#Comment_192708 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=192708#Comment_192708 Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:36:11 +0000 owlman elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=192874#Comment_192874 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=192874#Comment_192874 Tue, 07 Jan 2014 20:18:06 +0000 ferdinand2000
F]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=192891#Comment_192891 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=192891#Comment_192891 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 09:48:38 +0000 owlman elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=197393#Comment_197393 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=197393#Comment_197393 Sun, 02 Mar 2014 13:41:47 +0000 ferdinand2000
I've got the ones with lugs on top for joists, not slabs, by mistake - so I will need judiciously to apply an angle grinder.

Just need to reflect on how to make Pressed Council Slabs more interesting for outside my conservatory.

Photos when the project is done.

Ferdinand]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=197415#Comment_197415 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=197415#Comment_197415 Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:22:41 +0000 owlman ]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=197667#Comment_197667 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=197667#Comment_197667 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:52:01 +0000 djh Posted By: ferdinand2000Just need to reflect on how to make Pressed Council Slabs more interesting
Are you going to press the council yourself, or buy a pre-pressed council?]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=197669#Comment_197669 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=197669#Comment_197669 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:03:08 +0000 ferdinand2000
F]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=197676#Comment_197676 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=197676#Comment_197676 Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:58:01 +0000 owlman :wink:]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=198716#Comment_198716 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=198716#Comment_198716 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:16:18 +0000 ferdinand2000
Very quick to do - this was a few hours on my own.

The slabs I used were 70kg each, so needed some care. Adjustment was easy for the supports on the edge.

I wouldn't leave it to hold itself in place with no lugs if my slabs were much smaller.

I will finish it by putting clean pebbles on a bed of weed fabric down the side of the house. Still thinking about the outer edge. SWMBO keeps changing her mind on that.

Attachments:

Trial step.
Ready for 2nd half.
With slabs in place. One needs to be added.
ASP kit.
Delugged (by jigsaw).

Ferdinand]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=198718#Comment_198718 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=198718#Comment_198718 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:46:57 +0000 ferdinand2000 Posted By: owlman"Pressed council slabs". Indeed Ferdinand I've heard our "overworked" rulers called some things but PRESSED SLABS;...really?

In my case a certain Councillor turned my planning application into a political circus days before the Committee Meeting by sending a party political leaflet up and down the road.

:fierce:

F]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=198768#Comment_198768 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=198768#Comment_198768 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:16:27 +0000 owlman elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=198769#Comment_198769 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=198769#Comment_198769 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 11:31:18 +0000 ferdinand2000
Plus I'm planning some of those white outlines of dead local politicians so Columbo and Sophie Raworth will visit.

(ie not yet. Perhaps potplants. Photo when finished).

F]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=198773#Comment_198773 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=198773#Comment_198773 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:28:55 +0000 owlman ]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=205779#Comment_205779 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=205779#Comment_205779 Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:18:07 +0100 ferdinand2000
There are still bits of materials to remove from by the wall, and a brick edging to add to the patio, which is made from slabs that used to be a patio where the conservatory is built.

That decking step and rail are freestanding and you can see that next door is quite close.

F]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=205784#Comment_205784 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=205784#Comment_205784 Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:55:48 +0100 owlman I'm using a similar product for timber decking support on my own project. On my sloping site I'm using concrete blocks to take up the majority of the height and topping them off with the adjustable supports for the fine levelling, keeping the timber off the ground. I have three different levels to contend with.]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=205835#Comment_205835 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=205835#Comment_205835 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:18:54 +0100 CWatters
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permission/commonprojects/decking/]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=205853#Comment_205853 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=205853#Comment_205853 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:34:24 +0100 ferdinand2000
As it happens I probably have planning, as there's a slightly high ground level line on the application my predecessor did for the conservatory, that he started but never finished.

Interesting question though. The steps are entirely portable and nothing is nailed down (except for the horizontal half-rounds which are a fence less than 1m high for planning purposes!) - the patio step outside the conservatory can be dismantled by two men in an hour and piled somewhere else.

I'm not sure that anything there counts as a structure. The one thing that worries me is if someone dismantles it for an April Fool.

btw I forgot to include this pic, which is where I keep my spare facing bricks, which is how I filled that gap. There is one of those linear drive drain things underneath. I'm sure that others do it far more neatly.

Ferdinand]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=205885#Comment_205885 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=205885#Comment_205885 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:25:12 +0100 orangemannot 50mm thick, commonly available in 600mm by 600mm, 600 by 750mm and 600 by 900mm, which last weigh 70 kg each.
The absolute dogs wotsits of flags.
m]]> elevated concrete/stone decks https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=205935#Comment_205935 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=11583&Focus=205935#Comment_205935 Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:59:45 +0100 djh Posted By: orangemannothydraulically pressed slabs.
50mm thick, commonly available in 600mm by 600mm, 600 by 750mm and 600 by 900mm, which last weigh 70 kg each.

AKA 'council slabs': B50, C50 and D50 respectively.

The absolute dogs wotsits of flags.

Great for protecting the outside of the EPS in your passive slab foundations, ...

... and briliant for stopping things blowing away! :devil:]]>