I am planning to lay pavers down near my front porch, but I was always nervous about the task and it seemed so difficult, however this video did a wonderful job explaining it..Thanks for this!
Being in the roofing (water infiltration) business for over 42 years, placing pavers above slab line will always allow water under your exterior walls. I have seen this hundreds of times! Keep everything at least two inches below top of slab.
I did 400 sq feet just now by myself and it took me 4 days including cleanup prep excavation i had to bring 15 tons of dirt through a narrow gate on a wheel barrow my back is never going to be the same lol
I did excavated a 12 x 16 patio tiles setup. Dug about 7 inches without a level line on posts. Even without smoothing the bed with a long 2x4. Used a 6 foot level on 9 points and seemed alright to throw rocks in then stone dust. Started laying the 2x2 pavers (after compacting) realizing everything was all bumpy. Moral of the story : Do Not Skip ANY steps of the project to save time !!!!!
What did you do with the downspout i.e. it ends onto the new patio you laid. Any concerns about too much water exposure to the cracks of the patio? I'd be interested to see what you did with the downspout.
How well would an installation like this hold up in an area that gets a lot of runoff when it rains? Would it get washed out? Or if sloped correctly would the water just run off without doing any harm? Thanks!
I noticed that some contractors do not use leveling sand before they lay down the thick pavers. They also do not run the compactor when they spread the silica sand over the installed pavers. Are they taking shortcuts or those 2 steps might be skipped under certain conditions? I am getting quotes from different companies right now to do a project in my back yard and I am trying to get educated on the proper way of installation. Please, share your thoughts. Thank you
Vick Bojilov you don’t need a compactor if you pound the sand prior to installing pavers. After installing pavers you can lightly hit a 2 by 4 to pavers to straighten if pavers are uneven or lose then you have to fix the sand first.
Been a specialist block paving installer 15 years and would not lay like this . Yes there's short cuts but why skip certain aspects ? Dig out , crushed limestone type 1 compacted Levels set. Screed and compact .screed edge and fill laying and support blocks and me on wood sheets to spread weight. Compact .silica compact and final brush
Richard Williams after removing sod how deep do i need to dig? what granulars should i place first a or b and how thick and after that sand? also how do i set slope i dont get it
That's not by the book,I laid pavers in Chicago in the 90s,and read up on scientific method. They cut some corners,and once pavers are laid you vibrate WITHOUT sand first so you can easily replace broken ones. Then throw sand down,vibrate and sweep in.
Why are they showing them spreading out sand when laying the paver base??. As for the 1 inch for every 8ft slope, why is it marked at 2 inches?? Those 2 posts ain't 16 feet apart or i am the pope!
Thanks for this video. What on earth is that gross sound between segments supposed to be, though? It sounds like somebody has a barn to be mucked who hasn't done it in a while.Yo associate that sound with your logo is highly inadvisable.
I ordered over 300 Pavestone pavers delivered from HD. Halfway into my project I discovered that a lot of them were a different thickness, by a lot. like they were two different batches. I’m sure HD just delivered me the stack of shit they needed to get rid of. It was too late to turn back at that point. It looks fucked up.
That's home depot for ya. Their materials are so cheap that people that know what they are doing will sort through stacks of boards and only buy good ones. I've seen stacks ten boards deep with rejects from other contractors. Then comes along the poor clueless homeowner that will take whatever is on top and if that doesn't take care of the stack then putting it in a bundle for a delivery is a convenient way of getting rid of it
