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.
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. 😂😂
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.
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!
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. 😂😂
Oh yes, I remember those days. Wish I could get a few of them back. Thanks for commenting and the trip down memory lane.🙂
Pat your the man great attention to detail like aways great work 🤙🏽💯
Thanks 😊
Great job, love the chicken footprint. LOL
Thank you! That chicken follows me around inspecting everything I do
Just subscribed. I’ve learned so much.
Welcome to the channel!
Gr8 stuff Pat! A very relatable video.
Jeffrey, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing ❤good job 👍 subscriber from Japan
Thank you
Also scubbed you paver. Well done.
Good point. They got a little dirty being stacked up outside for years.
Why didn’t you put a crushed gravel under the sand.
The soil around my house is very sandy and drains extremely well. I felt their was no need for gravel.
Hello. The cuts where the pavers meet the walkway are so clean, what did you use or do?
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.
Hi Mr. Pat, great work!
How did you know how much to did out before grading the area?
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.
How far apart did you put the pins.
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!