Re-laying old stone garden path

[Tcb123]

Hi

I have a path in my garden laid when the house was built in 1930s

While it looks nice from a distance, it needs re-laying as it is uneven, loose and someone has filled some gaps with cement.

It winds down the garden and is about 30m long by about a meter wide, given that my plan was to attack it in sections of about 3m at a time to make it manageable as assume you want to keep the same pattern for sanity.

As you can see from the photo it is a crazy paving style with a gap between stones of about 2 inches but it varies.

I assume it is a case of numbering them, removing to the side in the same order, then digging down and laying some sort of membrane and drainage layer, but haven't attacked anything like this so if anyone has a resource or advice they can point me to that would be great!

Thank you in advance!

 

[lostinthelight]

I like things natural so would just lift and relay the loose ones then plant thymes and other low spreading aromatic plants between but realise that not to everyone's taste

 

[Tcb123]

I like things natural so would just lift and relay the loose ones then plant thymes and other low spreading aromatic plants between but realise that not to everyone's taste

Interesting, I will have a think about that option thanks

 

[Odds]

As above, but take care with thyme as it can spread like crazy, and i'll give a shout out for moss while we're at it. Those stones would look fantastic with Irish moss around them.

 

[endecotp]

Remove the cement that you don't like. Identify the loose stones and any that are so uneven that they are trip hazards. Lift only those and re-set them.