Have a spot in your yard or flower bed that you access often but hate mudding up your shoes? Here is a great DIY project to test out your skills and improve your landscape.
Hello Sonya. I used an angle grinder with a dry cut diamond blade. I would clamp the paver to my bench while cutting. If you watch how I cut the caps on my retaining wall video you can see I used a circular saw with diamond blade. It's the same process. It gets very dusty so use a fan to disburse the dust while cutting. I found it to be quite helpful.
I love the chicken prints. It reminded me of when I was younger we use to put footprints, handprint or inscribe our initials, name, dates, etc on fresh concrete. 😂😂
Thank you! Since this pathway was going up to the house, I wanted to make sure it pitched away from the house slightly. So I took into consideration the thickness of the pavers plus how much compacted gravel would be used for the base. In my case, the paver was 3" thick, and I went with approximately 3" sand (typically 6"of gravel is used)as the base. My soil is very sandy and drains extremely well, allowing me to get away with just 3". Once I knew that and I knew it had to match the level of my existing, I used that walkway as my reference point. I made the height at the house the same as the top of the cement walkway. I then gradually dug down as i got closer to the existing walkway so that I was 6" down below grade. Watch my retaining wall video, I show a few different ways to measure the grade at different points for references. Hope that answers your question. Thanks for watching.
The edging that I used had predrilled holes. On the straight section near the house, I used every other hole. In the curved section, I used every hole. Because my soil is so sandy, the pins did not bite into the ground as well as I would have like but are holding very well. Thanks for watching!
