"Martin Pentreath" wrote in message
Thanks for the advice Mike and Boypete. An angle grinder attack was my
original plan, but then uk.diy persuaded me that using a core cutter
would be better! The advantage I can see of the core cutter is (a)
that a nice round hole would be kind of neat, (b) because my patio is
small I can't afford to lose too many of the slabs themselves, and (c)
that I think I have a pretty hefty and thick sub-base of aggregate
under the paving (the guys who laid it didn't cut corners) which the
core cutter could go through down to the soil relatively quickly (I've
got four of these to do).

Did you have much trouble with getting through the base beneath your
slabs doing it your way? Or actually getting the slab up the way you
did it Mike? Mine seem to have been laid to survive nuclear blasts.

Cheers!

Martin


:-((

I was laying a new patio right across the back of the house so it was easy
for me to crack open the dreadful broken concrete. The slab cutting was for
her indoors who is the ''planty'' gardener :-))

My thoughts on your situation is the sufficient area you can find for roots
:-((((((((

Now the latest update on the area is that last year I put a verandah over
the whole patio and thus the beds are now covered with a membrane and stones
put on them with planters etc. With the next move being a Bougainvillea
being planted to go over the back of the house which we know will have to be
watered :-)

Sorry I am unable to help any further

Mike

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