Repair (bodge) a step

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Hi I have a step in my back yard that needs repairing. So ideally given my abilities I was thinking I could fabricate some simple shuttering out of timber and infill in with a readymix concrete repairer such as https://www.toolstation.com/blue-circle-quick-repair-concrete/p35292 I could possibly drill a couple of screws into the substrate as a key.

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Any thoughts? I know it will not match in colour, I also don't really care if it fails after a few years, I'll have either moved house or will do it properly then. During these times I have nothing available except what I can have delivered or collect locally from Toolstation and the like.
 
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High risk of failure could be costly. I'd be more inclined to cut it as close to the brickwork as possible and replace with a new slab.
 
Hi thanks for replying, high risk of failure could be costly? Do you mean dangerous if it gave way under foot? I don't have access to anything to cut it and frankly not sure I'd trust myself to use such equipment.
 
Do you have the bits of slab? If so, epoxy may help glue them together, but it will be a high stress join, so likely to fail.

A bolster and club hammer should give you the ability to "cut" the slab close to the brickwork. You could then bring it back up to level with a concrete mix, or buy a slab the same thickness of the original and use that
 
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I don't have the bits of slab no. I don't have a bolster or big hammer either. :)
 
Blofeld72 said:
Hi I have a step in my back yard that needs repairing. So ideally given my abilities I was thinking I could fabricate some simple shuttering out of timber and infill in with a readymix concrete repairer such as https://www.toolstation.com/blue-circle-quick-repair-concrete/p35292 I could possibly drill a couple of screws into the substrate as a key.

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Any thoughts? I know it will not match in colour, I also don't really care if it fails after a few years, I'll have either moved house or will do it properly then. During these times I have nothing available except what I can have delivered or collect locally from Toolstation and the like.
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have you tried wiggling it out ? bit unlikely but you never know your luck, it may come out with a bit of perswaytion, if it does just ease it back in the other way.

(how the bollixs do you spell per-sway-tion, even google can't work out what I'm trying to spell, may be its not a word?)
 
Well I have ignored all of the sensible advice in this thread and gone with the bodge method for the time being, time will tell, perhaps not much time!

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