Moving York stone patio?

Hi

Our house has a York stone patio which I'm told would be quite expensive. But, as with a lot of patios it simply isn't big enough. We're also about to add doors from our kitchen / diner opening onto it.

We love decking so would like to deck the area instead but seems a crime to deck over York stone or to throw it away. So instead we'd like to move it to create another patio to the side of the house instead.

Is this possible ? I know it'll be hard work but will the slabs come up OK and be reusable ? The slabs looks like they very well laid many years ago.

Thanks

Roger

 

There is no real definative answer, other than try it and see what you find.

 

You could sell it. Genuine York stone will fetch £35 - £40 per sq.m. - maybe more, and you could flog it on eBay for the buyer to lift - then any breakages etc. are their problem. Depends if you want folk your don't know in your garden though!

 

Depends on what they were layed on, as to the ease. If they are proper yorkstone then you'll want a good quality sack truck to move them on as genuine ones are often three or four inches thick.

I would run a grinder around the pointing then get a bar under one of the slabs towards the edge and lift them up this way.

If they were layed on a strong cement mortar then cleaning them up will be a bind, a sharp bolster chisel or sds breaker with wide steel will work well.

 

Sorry to dissagree,

I thought roger06 wanted to lift / relay it?

As for ebay it is only worth what some one will pay for it.

Currently its NOT even worth £15 /sq m let alone £35 -40

Sorry, I am just curious where the £35-40 it will fetch came from? All i did was to look on ebay

 

"I thought roger06 wanted to lift / relay it?"

He says his patio is too small, and anyway he wants decking, but he thinks its a waste to "chuck" it, so he's thinking of creating another patio to reuse it. I got the impressions he may not really want that other patio, just didn't like the idea of waste.

"As for ebay it is only worth what some one will pay for it.

Currently its NOT even worth £15 /sq m let alone £35 -40"

I checked on eBay for completed auctions. I did not find any, genuine, old, York stone that had sold for less than £35 a sq. m. There were some auctions that sold for between £35 - £45.

There is plenty of "fake" York Stone selling for tuppence, or not selling at all. There are plenty of people who want reclaimed, old, genuine etc. who won't want something that looks shiny-new

 

Other than the "buy now" offers on ebay everything else is an auction, so it may well ( and usually does) have a low starting price but usually in the last 15mins all those who are "watching" it bid and the price goes up.


Like Paul says, you will need lots of manpwer and a few tools, but it depends on what it is bedded on.


You could save yourself some trouble though-can't the decking float over the stone?

 

You should bear in mind that if you lift to sell or move that you will have to clean up and make good the area where the decking is to go, level off put weed barrier membrane down and possibly gravel.

Easiest solution would be to deck over the top of the stone if you have the space to do so, OR adding to the end of the stone patio with some decking might also work for you and could be quite nice depending how its done/how it looks. Post some photos of what you have now for us to view.

Steve...