How to Install an Urban Bluestone Patio | Ask This Old House
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2025
- This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner install a bluestone patio in an urban backyard.
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Roger helps a homeowner install a bluestone patio in an urban backyard. The bluestone that Roger used for this project was natural cleft bluestone in 18"x24" and 24"x36" pieces. The bluestone was purchased at Martignetti Enterprises [martignetti.us/].
Tools List for Installing an Urban Bluestone Patio:
Kneepads [amzn.to/2n11hvN]
Shovel [amzn.to/2mQYAwP]
Wheelbarrow [amzn.to/2mv6dco]
Hand tamper [amzn.to/2mo5iKB], to compact sand base
Plate compactor [amzn.to/2m0r5YY], to tamp stone base
Garden rake [amzn.to/2lqRChU], to smooth the stone base
Wood stakes [amzn.to/2nyxivH] and nylon string [amzn.to/2lQxIgA], to establish grade
Metal ground stakes [amzn.to/2n0Cyrr], to hold slabs in place
Rotary hammer [amzn.to/2m2vYAD], to chip away concrete
Brick trowel [amzn.to/2nqdMBk], to smooth the setting base
Push broom [amzn.to/2nyBdZr], to sweep sand into the bluestone joints
Small sledgehammer [amzn.to/2mRpV21], to pound in wood stakes
Shopping List for How to Install an Urban Bluestone Patio:
Bluestone slabs
Graded base stone, a mixture of crushed stone [amzn.to/2lrwx72] and stone dust [amzn.to/2lQETW5]
Caution tape [amzn.to/2lrB5dC], used to identify buried cable or pipe
Portland cement [amzn.to/2nx3MGG] and stone dust [amzn.to/2lQETW5], mixed to create the setting base
Polymeric sand [amzn.to/2m3nfy6], to fill the joints between the bluestone slabs
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Joe wasn’t afraid of some hard work, that was nice to see.
Roger is an absolute savage. 40+ years in the trade and still no gloves.
His hands must be hard as a rock!
U mean hard as a wok
dad hands
:)...Roger when he was still healthy and vibrant...Good luck to him...He's a big strong man, I hope he can recover...Good health to all the TOH guys, even Good ol Bob...I've been watching these guys since Norm was Bob's carpenter and before Tommy came in...They've been though so many changes...I'm in the trades too so when Norm and the boys get together and rib each other It's very endearing...
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I’m gonna miss you, Roger!!!
Cmon man enough with the hateful comments! You can add whatever you want to your home that makes YOU happy. Chillax.
Roger is the GOAT
i bet the neighbours appreciate all the extra rain water flowing under the fence into their yard,
Rodger will be back for next week show!
Roger is the best person
R.I.P. Roger you will be missed
Great tutorial Roger!!
I'm just glad they remembered where the fiber optic lines were when they were pounding in the little metal dividers. That could have ended badly
11:59 It looks better than anything he could ever imagine
It’s cool they use a sawr to cute bluestone
Always come to see the “comedians” make the same old Boston accents jokes. Never disappointed. Also enjoy the “experts” telling how TOH has no idea how to do it. Classic.
Definitely a continuing theme
Yeah they did good but how I would have done it......😂👌
some plants and divide the patio with a nice little fence. ready..
7:50 "Now I'm a little bit high which is what i want to be." I said to myself "Me TOO!!!" Then i remembered that anybody working in the lawncare/ landscape business is probably a little bit high at any given time during the workday..... You have to be to make the grudging tasks of the trade more bearable.... LOL!
Roof downspout pointed right at the ac condenser unit 👀
holy cow that's a lot of work
Yeah !! No kidding...wow!!👍🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦👍!!
but more importantly my wife will love it. I like that phrase.
He "thinks" his wife will love it. Might be in for a surprise.
Every time I watch one of these I feel glad that I live in the civillized metric world where we also don't call a liquid 'gas'
0:49 - "they put it on a sar"
Poly sand is so key to this patio. Do NOT joint the joints with mortar
I would have cut the railing off that deck and build a step down deck where the stone was placed
Would have been much easier and the space would have felt much larger. Missed opportunity.
When he dumped the gravel out of the wheelbarrow I thought it was gonna hit me through the screen
You should take off your 3D glasses then.
dude I love this approach!!!
Love this job
That homeowner reminds me of that guy from full metal jacket in boot camp..
Giles Johnston LOL the one that was driven crazy & blew his brains out all over the latrine? Yeah.. he kinda does, doesn’t he? Poor dude. Smh.
Private pile
LMFAO imagine “PRIVATE PYLE I SAID IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE 14” FROM THE DECK”
You should always take and do things when you should.
3-4-5 rule, that's Pitagoras, Nice!
0:10
"I got the hard part done..". Little did he know the harder part was yet to come.
I hope he made his fence and grass as nice as the patio.
Same mixture to add bluestone on top of existing ugly concrete slab?
Brilliant video
Would laying a rural blue stone patio be different?
Gammareign 😂👌
I Flahriduh it's all sand so how do you know when you hit sand that someone put there as a wahrning?
Use red danger or yellow caution plastic warning "tape".
Lmfao
Wondering the type of polymeric sand used. We only have 1 type available at our local Home Depot. And yeah the comments are loaded with know it all do nothings. GFY
lambanmartyr - This is not HDepot brand. This is professional grade that can be purchased at stone yards.
Home Depot. Where the unlicensed contractors shop.
Looks like Sakrete
Isn’t stone dust (limestone) corrosive to pavers?
Love This old house!!! Question - in a previous video on "how to lay a bluestone walkway" , it was suggested that the stone dust/portland cement mixture should be 12:1, in this video the suggested mix is 9:1. Is there a reason for the difference? Thank you in advance for any advice or help. -G
I really don't know, but a patio has a lot more weight because of furniture and other stuff maybe? Hopefully someone who really knows will answer.
I've watched this video over and over and I can't find where the musicians are playing in his yard.
They are off to the side off camera because of copyright laws.
It’s a union thing.
Look good Mr Roger
PACKHS HAHRD AS A RAHHHHK
How do I figure out the ratio of stone dust to cement mixture? Nine parts of stone dust to one part cement...are they shovel fulls? What are the nine part measurements? Sorry complete newbie and need to fix a bluestone patio
Any measurement you like (cup, shovelsful or bucket) it doesn't matter, the ratio will always be the same - though I think they're talking shovelsful here.
Would it be possible to use the urban blue stone on a wooden deck structure? And that is instead of the decking boards?
Only if you compact 3 inches of stone dust over the framing.
How much would a patio like this cost? Nice work.
I bet just the material is 5k.
@@davec.3198 I was pricing it out recently and it's not that bad, but it is expensive. Homeguide says a 10'x10' patio with bluestone, installed is around $2500. Materials are probably around $1k. Home Depot has pallets near me for about $600 (that's for 48 sq/ft, so double that roughly for the 10'x10').
It sounds like bluestone varies in quality quite a bit though, and I'm not sure how nice the stuff in the video is.
7:55 me too, Roger. Me too… 😄
Got the hot pot done
Do you need a permit to create a paver patio or a permit to dig that deep?
no
why not just use sand and gravel? easier to handle compare to that concrete thing.
jes g
Sand will settle causing the patio to settle
If your gonna do it do it right or don’t do it at all
Unreinforced concrete will crack and settle as well - especially that weak mix. A good compacted base is key. As mentioned, the concrete was to ease the leveling of the stones as it is liquid until it sets.
4 ac units hate to see that Electric bill
You dont need to put down the caution tape, no one will ever dig up this crummy tile.
If anything, put a warning sign in the street that you wont be able to sleep because of the endless sirens as heard 6:00 .
Do you have any plans to visit Toronto coming summer?
what happens if they have to repair that line?
Low voltage comm line. Probably fiber optic running through. They would never dig that up, just pull the bad cable through the conduit from the street.
Those stones are expensive. Like 30 bucks for one stone last time I checked
I now know why I pay for artisans to work on my home.
you cant spray so much water on the poly sand itll seep out a fine mist works better let it dry and do it again
As is custom, This Old House shows the final product for 0.2 seconds
Does anyone else watch these videos and think to themselves “Wow, what a pain in the *ss.”?
Beginning of video: "Oooh, maybe I'll use bluestone for my walkway"
End of video: "Oh hell no"
My back cries out every time I see Rodger and stone work.
With that attitude you must not get a whole lot done.
@7:56 same! lol
Mix em together with wada
exactly -can you translate that for me, please.
This guy is amazing but I am completely clueless what he is talking about so what is WADA.
@@EPICSOUNDTRAX water. Lol
Cheers!
Who was mixing all that cement?
That’s the hard part.
Jose and Hector.
"This way a hundred years from now, they won't hit that line."
Yes they will!
You can run those lines through cast iron pipe encased in concrete, call MISS-DIG, and have them exactly marked showing where they are, and someone will hit those lines.
It's human nature to miss and/or ignore all the warning signs.
Well then whoever is digging is an idiot! Not Roger's fault
Hes minimizing risk
@@gmrrnracr There are careless folks out there but not everyone's an idiot, no need to be quite so negative.
@@chrissanford8467
Good point sir! Thank you
Im here for the opening Music!
"sand is a universal warning symbol" yeah I live at the beach I wouldn't get very far with my digging if I stopped Everytime I hit sand...
11:28 you got the wrong broom to fill the holes, it would have been better a "pull water" broom
Huge Mistake!!! He should've put a conduit around those cables!!! If that line ever fails the communication company will have to break up his patio
The cables all ready have a conduit/pipe around them.
Roger said "they put it on a Sawr" is that anything like a Saw?
+God of Thunder (UKKONEN) Sure, you bring yer sawr in yer caar that ya parked on Peebuddy street!
Just a bunch of smaht asses commentin.
168 thumbs down on youtube, same video 0 thumbs down on facebook.
Why does the homeowner have 4 AC units!?
"It looks better than anything I could ever imagine" Ok TOH, chill out
A lot of caution towards those buried comm lines. I like the "100 years from now" quip. Yeah, like we'll be using those same comm lines even in 20 years...
- The guy with obsoleted cable/telephone lines in his backyard (through age/animals deteriorating the line).
Shawn Strickland We've been using POTS for the better part of the last 100 years. We're still using it...
I had to look up "POTS". Never heard of it referred to as that. Cool!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service
Shawn Strickland Probably won't be using the lines them selves 100 years from now, but that's why they use the plastic tubing now days. Simply tape the new lines to the old and pull them through. Also we pull a "pull rope" through with it so we can add more wires in the future. That pipe is Polly with a wire mesh imbeded in it to keep the moles away.
Woow these boys could not wait and lit a fire place and had some beers right after finishing. Some say Roger got so drunk that night that they had to postpone the next day shooting because he was so hangover and needed to rest.
Looks like one of those jobs that seemed to be a great idea and would look nice, but once you start doing it you would be like...WHY THE HELL DID I AGREE TO DO THIS? Too labor intensive, WAAAYYYYY TOO EXPENSIVE for the house.
godbluffvdgg -
Actually, the house is way too expensive for what little you get and the neighbors right on top of you. Four A/C units!
Actually there a team of laborers just off camera
The only work they do is what you see on camera for the most part. They sub the job out and then step in to film it. Sometimes the subcontractor is in the video but most of the time they're not.
Tell the Wife that! you'll get the same response from a BRICK WALL!
these vids are ahhhhhhhsum!
7:53 Roger's a little high...
Me too Rogah
@7:17 thats what she said
Remember: you don’t have an accent until you leave home.
Haaahdens up 11:08
These guys accents kill me.
Your's kill me!
My back yard is sand. I live near the beach.
+Maxid1 My cat likes wet and dry food!
Oh, I thought we were doing arbitrary statements...
+godbluffvdgg They put sand on the electrical conduits to warn people to stop digging if it anyone was ever dig in the yard in the future?
Maxid1 So you have nothing but wires under your yard...You better not dig!
+Maxid1 that's why you call *8-1-1* before you plan on doing any digging.
+Erik Liska And it's the law too. Not a thing to think you need to do. It's a requirement.
That patio will outlast that crappy old house
That patio will make a good foundation for the new house they build there in 100 years.
nice,a million dollar patio with a 2$ looking rotted fence,but otherwise good job.
It's a home away from your deck
Why does this guy need 4 air conditioners?
Could be a multiplex? or perhaps for different zoned heating and cooling? That's a question for Richard.
Too hot in hell
Multiple units right next to each other. Townhomes.
After all, he removed 100% of his grass for this patio. Good move in my book.
I'm here for the mocking of the New England accent.
Justin boston accent
New York City alone has 3 distinct accents associated with it.
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100 years from now we will be fully wireless
Polymeric sand does not age well. The first 1 to 2 years might look good, but after that, the top of the Polymeric sand starts popping off as chunks. Then the look of the patio, becomes an embarrassment ! ( Been there, Done that).
Refill the holes and respray?
Why would anyone want to do all this hard work?
Pride in your work, something that can stand the test of time. Also something that you can talk about when someone's ask about something you built.
private pyle builds a patio then goes postal
Joints crooked
I do not like your advertisers yelling at me!!!!
a bluestone patio for a town house .. really
Rip Rodger
"How not to lay a patio".....Walking on it after you've just laid it? that's how you get wobbly patio.....
Also why didn't you push the grout in with a grouting tool?
That's why they packed it first. Its' not like if you leave the stones there to settle after a week it'll pack themselves.
Daniel Mcgann 1 God job
crusher run
A hundred years from now they won’t know what a cable is.
I suspect underwater data cables aren't going anywhere nor are fiber lines running to cell towers... Nor are power lines.
always use impermeable gloves when working with cement products as they burn the skin
What are you Mason I never see you for that is that is so wrong