PLEASE LIKE & SUBSCRIBE! Click the link below to check out my Etsy store! www.etsy.com/shop/HowToHacks?... Click the link below to get my FREE Ebook! eepurl.com/hsJ2F5 This video shows how to fix uneven patio pavers.
I've got some sunken pavers on my patio... now that spring is here, I need to get out there and fix them! Thanks for the how-to. Also, loved the sweet little helpers!! :)
Great job. I have to do the same thing but much easier. Loved seeing your co-workers join in. They've learned to take part in Daddy's work. Cutest darned video. Thanks a million.
Thanks for making this, I have a heap of uneven and sinking pavers around my house and thought I'd need to get someone in to fix it. This has given me confidence in doing it myself.
Thank you so much for this very helpful video! Very well explained and demonstrated. I have a paved driveway with several walkways stemming off of it, and there are a few isolated small areas where just a few bricks are sinking and/or shifting. My bad for not maintaining, re-sanding, etc. over the years. 😑 I had a paver come and give me an estimate to restore them, and he advised pulling EVERYTHING up and installing all new pavers at the cost of $10,000 +. 😳 Well like most people, I’ve got much better ways to spend that kind of money than to replace all of my perfectly good bricks! So I decided to at least TRY and tackle the worst areas myself. This video gives me confidence that I can handle it! So off to Home Depot I go this morning, to get the necessary supplies. Thanks again. Oh and btw, I especially enjoyed the help you got at the end of the video. ☺️
I have had to do some of this myself and this just popped up on my feed from previous videos I've watched. I definitely agree that if you can do it, DIY in the first instance is worth a shot, especially if you get help like he did here.
So i think i have a bigger problem. I decided to do this complete job myself and it just didn't work. Im not sure how to proceed. I started from scratch designing the space first. The the excavator came and prep the site. Once i has a flat surface, i placed the crushed stones. Then i leveled again. Then i placed the sand, i didn't leveled! Then i placed the stones. The sand is not even so that's causing the concrete pavers to be uneven and unlevel. I removed the pavers today. How do i proceed now? More sand then level? Or pipes first on top of the sand that's already on the ground then more sand? What would you recommend? Thanks in advance!
You can use sand or limestone screenings. I prefer the limestone as it gets hard over time. I would rent a gas powered compactor and go over the area several times and add limestone as I go. This is how I do it. The properly compacted surface is what gives a good end product. Without that it won’t work.
Hello, can you list the tools and the materials you used? I have several pavers in different areas that I need to level. In addition, I had a new fence replacing and old one and now the pavers are sliding down. Any suggestion?
You need a rubber hammer (or a regular hammer and a block of wood), 4 ft level, flat screw driver for prying up the pavers, buckets, and gravel or sand for filling.
Also, the joint sand helps lock everything in. Pounding the pavers down pushes a bit of base up between the pavers helping them lock in at the bottom and the joint sand finishes it off. The part missing from these instructions is that in order to lock everything together tightly, you need to compact after filling with joint sand, then brush in some more because the joint sand will also settle a bit after compacting.
Also, this only works for very minor repair. Proper repair for sagging pavers generally involves removing all of that base sand down to the base stone, adding base stone, compacting, adding sand/paver base, then doing the rest of the process described. If the base stone is what's sagging, eventually you'll need to add stone and compact, otherwise you're just adding more sand and will increase the tendency to heave/shift over time.
I compacted during original installation. When fixing I added extra gravel and hit the block with a hammer and block of wood. This compacts the gravel under the block really well.
