Looks great. Funny, when I was young, in the 1960's, many streets and driveways were brick. Almost all of those were ripped out to put in concrete/asphalt. Now the brick/paver look is back in style.
Good lord man... I am doing a 37 foot just like this to my backyard for my RV. 37x2.5 was a mofo... I can't imagine 72 feet!!!! Literally DOUBLE! lucky for me, my next door neighbor needs about 5 yards of dirt to level his backyard!
This was a great tutorial, but in the video on his home page he juggles flaming lawn chairs! I'm watching the homemade paver video next. Thanks for the videos.
Thanks Wendy, the driveway is holding up well. This is the 4th winter for this driveway. I’ve had to do minimal maintenance on it. The maintenance being resetting a paver occasionally because it had been lifted due to ice pushing it up. This type of driveway isn’t good for plowing when it comes to snow and ice removal. I’ve never had it plowed, instead I just shovel it clear and for heavier snowfalls I clear it with a snowblower.
Thank you so much for your videos and your channel. I really appreciate it. I’m going to be making pavers for a raised flower bed. Can you give me an idea on where to get stone dust? And maybe post links in the description on where to get the materials. That would be really helpful for me. 🙏
Thanks Joy. I purchased the bulk of the materials for this project at a masonry supply company near me. A good place to start would be to do a search online for “masonry supplies near me”. A good supply place will even be able to help calculate how much of various materials you’ll need for your project.
Best looking DIY so far. I'm going to check out your video on how to make concrete bricks. I've got rid of the asphalt, now onto ditch digging. Can you tell me how deep are your trenches? Thank you
Saving $ wasn't really my primary goal on this. Though by making my own pavers and doing the work myself I did save quite a bit over what a contractor would have charged. The total overall cost was right around $3000 including all the materials, tools and tool/dump truck rentals.
The stone dust between the pavers is not the best material for that purpose. I ended up replacing it with polymeric sand. I will try to add a subtitle explaining this. Thanks
Bummed you didn't level it or make it perfectly parallel. Some center stones would have been good also so that you could put a jack under a car and get it up in the air easily to do work.
Those are excellent concerns. Before I started the project I carefully observed the most common path vehicles descend the driveway and based the placement of the paving stones on that, that's the reason the paths aren't perfectly straight, it was intentional. They do however measure 5' to center all the way. We will very rarely be parking on the driveway, just driving on it. The driveway leads to a parking area behind the house that easily fits 6 vehicles without any of them getting blocked in. Near the end of the video I ride a unicycle down the driveway and into the parking area and at the very end of the video the parking area is where I parked the rented dump truck to get rid of all the old asphalt. Thanks for watching!
its gonna last about 5-8 years ... then the ground will move and the bricks will create holes and move sideway. u need to dig deeper than that ... and use reinforced concreed base placed on allready placed stone base.. then it will last about 20 years .. remeber to reinforce sides of the driveway
As you stated the tools that you use are important but why didnt you use the already there asphalt as the base? Why throw throw that away and buy stone? 😕 I'm stupid, you let me know lol
About a half year in at this point. They’ve withstood all the traffic, a flood, two major snow storms and a thaw. Still looking good. Check back anytime. I’ll give an update.
