How To Repair/Fix Sinking Block Paving Driveway Patio Stonemason Landscapes
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Lets take a look at sinking block paving and what is involved when the time comes to fix and repair it.
By Stonemason Landscapes, My other job.
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I already fixed my front steps but then I still keep watching these videos. Having said that, nice job 😎👊
This is why I only use 5/8 - 3/4 inch fractured rock and 1/2" sand bedding under pavers. 20 years and not one issue with sunken pavers. Base material more expensive, but savings in base installation labor more than makes up for it. Most of my work is in North Dakota and Minnesota so frost heave a very problem, hence the rock. Not as critical in southern regions of the country, but the labor savings still the same.
Sweet
Hmm, easyer sead than done.
This guy knows what he is doing though...👍
Great to see a proper job being done! Well done
Tidy job mate,nice to see that there are still some builders that take pride in their work.
Very nice job!!
I have a question, but not a critical one.
Would it help if the first 2 courses next to the house were layed slightly higher than the other courses, to help with water run-off?
One mistake you made. Always photograph the blocks first so you can get the order and the pattern right.
Handy to know when I finally get round to doing up my garden
Glad to have helped
You went from minecraft to real craft video. good idea. Kudos
Its good to see a job done right, well done
All of the finer material will settle into the big gaps (air spaces) between the hardcore block pieces. Also a plate compactor should be used not a hand tamp. This will basically sink again.
@@daviddou1408 yes thats what it says repair.
Wow.. I would never do it that way.. And yes I am a pro landscaper..
you cut grass.
And how would you do it. Put more sand underneath and have the problem come back.
@@kencress1267 I am not sure why most interlock video;s show using sand as the last base for laying stones.. we only use Stone dust.. it packs much better then the sand. I get a very level finish using that and great for large areas. you walk on it with out ruining the the final grade.. I must admit I didn't watch the video all the way through the first time.. and can see that you did do a very good job on it .
Well done. I have this problem, now no excuse not to fix it except I am lazy.
Wow you did a really good job. My back hurts just watching you.
Good job very clear and helpful thanks
You did a great job.
Definitely did the repair as it should be done.
It seems like a fairly simple job to most ?
At least in this video people can see the effort it takes to do a Good job.
Solid honest work mate. Top job.
Top job I'll try this
Now the other half will sink....
😂😂😂😂
I'll only assume that the rest of the pavers will go the same way as whoever laid the pavers originally would have done the same rubbish job elsewhere.
Guessing it's in London with that clay?
Dear god... Video could have been 15 seconds "Call someone, the end" OR titled "Why is fixing driveway pavers so expensive, it's worth it"
Yes, really instructive video and it has certainly given me more confidence to have a go!
If you don’t connect the trench to a house drain which leads to weeping tiles, you will eventually have leakage into the house. The trench will collect a pool of water which has no place to go and will eventually leak into the basement. The limestone screening will slowly find its way into the voids between the broken bricks and it will loss material leading to sinking the interlocking bricks. A geo fabric between the two materials will prevent this from happening. My two cents.
Peter Chan this type of home has no basement and the job was done as per the clients wishes, if the client had agreed to a weeping drain then it would have been installed, when I quoted jobs I gave 3 options 1) The Right Way..2) The Wrong Way..3) The Cheap Way..and more often then not they chose option 3
@@TheAudiostud don't do a half arsed job. Just to be the right quote for the right job
That was my concern as well. Here in Uganda all the buildings have creeping damp problems so I was interested to see how it was handled in the UK.
Most houses in the UK have no basement and damp is avoided by having a damp course a few courses up the brickwork from ground level which is a membrane layer between the two courses in the mortar line. Air bricks are also used to allow air circulation within the buildings cavity to avoid damp.
Understanding that there are different methods of securing a good base before installing pavers...thumbs down to the person(s) who originally did this butcher job. Sad to say that money speaks louder than quality work!
I've never and I mean never thought of cutting corners when it came to delivering promised quality work.
For driveways, I always lay a thick top quality fabric before compacting a minimum of 20 inches of gravel. It is included in the cost and I will not substitute this for nobody.
I'm not a big fan on using sand over my base due to possible run off and ants somehow end up having a field day if they get to it.
I always use approximately 11/2 of stonedust to set my pavers on.
A metal edging is needed to secure the pavers and is spiked every 12 inches.
Polymeric sand is used to fill the voids between the pavers which is spread using a medium stiffness push broom prior to the first compacting. I will now spread more sand and repeat the compacting in a perpendicular direction. Again, broom in more polymeric sand to ensure all voids are filled and to also remove excess.
Back in the day, I used to use a shop vac by reversing the air flow to carefully blow off excess sand that would be still present on the pavers so that they would not look greyish. I did finally purchase myself a leaf blower with a variable airflow when they hit market.
The last step is to lightly wet (mist) the driveway using a garden hose with an appropriate nozzle. This method is done starting from the highest point of the driveway..working downwards.
Once done, repeat this step now using a heavier mist to ensure that all joints are wet. The last step is to wait about 5 minutes then to carefully blow off excess water that may be present.
I like to share my personal experiences as they have always served my customers well..and for many years to come.
An honest days work deserves an honest days pay.
Fair enough
Thank you very helpful and insightful covered everything I need to know
Thats sank due to water run off from the house.....
Reason why the first 2 foot has sank ......the rubble will help but could have done with a good dusting of cement before re laying .
Nice to see a professional at work & taking pride in doing a good job.
Nice job.
Great now I know I got ripped off my the guys that laid my driveway, I wondered why they where so cheap compared to everyone else. Thanks for this video very insightful.
Buy cheap pay twice. You get what you pay for
Don't worry some of the most expensive quotes also cut corners.
How much will a job like this cost?
@@luciensmith9958 that’s exactly what I was going to say. In my experience it’s always been the case
This is big job to do it, cant you just add more sand under it and cover it again with tile, it would last for many years ??
Spot on 👍
Really good job and explained simply so you can understand without over complicating things
Step 1. Number each brick with a grease pencil and take a picture...
Oh that's so good. Yes. Ty
Or lay it as it was when you pick them up. Like a jigsaw or picture.
Indeed, this will be very helpful!
Anyone with a good eye doesn't need to mark them , apprentice material that mate . As in someone that has no valid experience . .
Great vid and excellent presentation - Easy to follow, real world and accurate - Thank you
I love UK ,,,all jobs made to last 3-7 years ...good for builders,,we have more jobs ,,in Romania they use concrete base after they put sand and paving ...like thet last forever
We had some Indian builders rip up our old tarmac drive and put down block paving. It took them two weeks to break up the old concrete base. 10 years later parts of it have sunk because they only used a small compactor not a heavy duty ride on. Basically the world is full of incompetent cowboys.
Respect brother
Nice to see someone taking pride in their work
Looks great. Do you know who specialises doing this in Kent?
There’s hundreds of good paving professionals in the Kent area but my advice is to look in your local neighbourhood magazine or go on your local council website to see which ones are approved before asking for quotes. Also in the past I’ve walked along my road and knocked on the door of neighbours who seem to have had a nice job done to get details of who they used....
just put 20 cm of stabilised sand (8 parts sand to one part ciment)under your paving and none of that will happen.
The compact technique is for short term, for a long term, need to use compactor or (my country 🇲🇾 we call) whacker machine, then can promise a long lasting result
I have a 35 m2 driveway and I have approx 8 dips would you recommend have them repaired or just have a whole new drive?
Lawrence Spencer If it’s getting to the end of its tether and you have the money, remove the lot. Block paving is old hat now, too much maintenance, nothing but an ants nest. Resin is the dogs dangly bits, or concrete print.
Hi, nice video. A question Plzz. We just moved in to a new house. Concrete Slabs installed in the driveway. 30% are wobbly or not inline. What to do? 2x2 feet slabs installed,, numbers 33x17 slabs.
It has hardcore underneath. Should I just get it repaired or do the bricks as shown in video. Which option is more suitable and importantly cheaper. Thanks
How much would this cost to done?
Remembering where to lay those bricks back would be my ultimate concern 😂 great job fella
Before I watched the video I thought you were going to use some kind of magic to fix it. lol
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I love the fact that they’ve put measurement in inches and then in mm
I can't sleep so watching
No wonder us builders suffer from bad backs good job mate
So much work went into that small repair!
Yes that’s what separates the quality jobs from the rubbish. You get what you pay for I guess...
OK so I have sinking block paving everywhere I may as well have my whole driveway and patio taken up I cant believe the cowboys haven't put a foundation under it.
Smelly Pete exactly. This isn’t a fix or a repair, this is a redo with now “second hand” bricks - so all the effort and cost of a new job without the stunning impact of a new job finish 🥴
Great job lads, not as straightforward as you’d think. Good to see the other lad cleaning the blocks as first fella lay them, good team work
Proper job
Should have removed all the walkway and did it right.
You do the amount of work the customer is willing to pay for.
I agree with both of you
@@liberaltears1714 I agree with all three of you...
I have adhd to and I install patios and driveways to its a great way to burn off all that excess energy good video buddy
Me to although I am getting a little bored of the trade now plus by body has taken a lot of wear and tear in the last 16 years of it plus all the other jobs before and during that I have had have all been hard manual work.
Good video
If you're putting in block paving, don't just go for the cheapest quote, or this is what you'll get. It's expensive because the preparation work is normally extensive; digging out to install a good subbase takes time and requires more materials. Buy cheap buy twice.
Rodger Quinn problem these days people don’t want a cowboy job, but are ok paying cowboy money £££ like you said, most time and money is spent in the prep that the customer will never see so they just don’t want to except the real cost
I find the hardest thing is knowing who to trust regardless of price. Many a builder will turn up, say all sorts of things, only when the job had been done can I tell if they knew what the were doing or not, too late by then. Sadly any complaints are usually met with abuse from the builder (as in f**k off just pay me), such is their way. Interestingly though, the builders I have as friends are always complaining they are being asked (to quote) to put jobs right, that is jobs done by other builders. Anyway, thanks for the vid, the groundworks looks good.
Who u on about this lad did a great job or do u mean the cowboy who did it first
totaltwit I'm a builder and I would never treat a customer in the way you are talking about, nor do I know any other builders who would. It's not that difficult to find a good builder. Find out who they have done work for previously, go and have a look, speak to the people who they did the work for. You will soon realise who you can and cannot trust
Well that's something new for you! Indeed my last "builder" was a roofer, 2017 to re-roof 2 dormers. They didn't put the facia on proper and got the guttering misaligned so I now hear rain drips falling . I mentioned this to the roofer who phoned for a check up and basically he was ABUSIVE! Nothing was his fault, in fact he blamed me. I need to go up there to make good, and because the facia is not straight it annoys me everytime to see it. When they fitted the first facia I mentioned this so they didn't make the same mistake on the second. So yes, builders can be abusive if a homeowner complains, their idea is to BULLY people into paying even if their job is not 100% as they don't want the hassle of returning to the job to put things right. So maybe, they were "cowboys"? The roofer in question is supposed to be a relaible, he's all over my town and why I chose them, mistake.
It is hard to find good builder, even looking at previous jobs is no guarentee. Because they will only point me to good jobs not bad ones they've done, obviously.
One of the first jobs I had done was rendering, I phoned up all the references given, all gave glowing reports, had them do the job and it's clumsy work. It needs knocking off and redone by someone who knows what they are doing. There ARE many amateur "professional" builders, many ARE abusive/bullies, from what I notice it's usually the smaller outfits.
Nicely done. Good to see blue collar guys taking pride in their work and not taking short cuts.
I just bought a house here in the city and I would like to know if anyone can repair and patch concrete surfaces on my driveway
Very stressful filming. Hold the fucking camera still!!!
That sub base looks like it's got a ton of clay in it. No wonder th pavers are settling into the base.
There was no sub base it was just clay.
Great work and fix. I am bit skeptical about the first layer of bricks you put. They have to be crushed and compacted really well before puting gravel and sand. If they are not, in time you will start to get small pockets of air and possibly another sinking. But since it's been 5 years already from the fix, perhaps you can telll us if I'm wrong.
Tak się kończy układanie kostki na piachu a nie suchym betonie. To co zrobili poprawiając na długo też nie starczy.
Is this a 21 century technology?
Anyone know what's that thing called that is used to tamper and how I could make my own
tamping plate, wacker, rammer, tool:
1>> www.zoro.co.uk/shop/power-tools/power-tool-accessories/1618633101-120x130mm-tamping-plate/p/ZT1197193X
2>> www.ebay.co.uk/i/254191462541
3>> www.ebay.co.uk/i/184313900152
This what I need to do. Fucking ants have spent years sinking the stones.
Concrete ants ... I find little piles of sand everywhere.
could also be helpful to solve the drainage issue that may have caused the problem in the first place. maybe as simple as just installing a gutter, and redirect all that downpouring water from off the pavers
Number 1 problem for brick paving in Oz, is 🐜 ants!
They dig out nests under the blocks, and deposited the sand up on top of the bricks, which gets blown swept etc away.
In winter the rain comes and the ants nests get flooded with all the runoff from the brick paving seeping between the pavers! The excavated ants nests subside due to the flooding and next person steps in that paver, it subsides!
Rinse & repeat and within a few short seasons the brick paving becomes a dangerous trip hazard for elderly.
It’s not like 1 ants nest you get hundreds of new nests in just one day!
For some reason these minute brown ants that are so small as to be almost invisible to the necked eye, (think “Argentine ant”) just LOVE to burrow under paving bricks!
There’s only one effective poison that kills them, BUT it’s dearer per ounce than gold!
You can poison them all you like, more just come the next year!
Makes it impossible to maintain nice brick paving!
I am looking for similar videos to get ideas how to fix my yard, and I am amazed that none of you use any cement under those rocks. Of course it's easy to take out sth that is not glued to the ground!
well if pykies hadn't done the job in the first place there wouldn't be a problem ..........
What did you do the the first row of blocks that you relayed? It looked like you painted some glue or adhesive to that row (only that row?)
Clean and tidy workers.
from experience, sand is not a good surface to lay blocks....on the hardened base you lay "filc-fabric", then gravel 4-8 mm (8 cm base). Just level it an put on the blocks. Rain just sips down, no puddles, no worries...no sinking
The rain gutters are probably over flowing right onto this edge along the foundation. That should be checked .
Can't u just use crusher rock and screening? I'm from Canada tho
They sink because you used sand,sand fluidises with rain penetration or power steering on cars.Use 6mm Granolith on top of MOT. End of come-backs.This is good advice ,go one stage further with a Resi-gaurd saturation over kiln dried sand. This is the belt and braces way and better than tamped,screeded sharp sand!
Please stop using the expression 'tamper down'. What you should use is 'tamp down'.
I suspect that ONLY in the UK and on some High Quality jobs in USA would tradesmen do the paving base (the part the customer rarely sees) to such a very high level of professionalism as explained in this video. It may be that some tradesmen who do paving were never trained to do it the totally professional way. OR it may be that they are aware of this but choose instead to cut corners to get the job. Or they may feel the customer will not be able to afford the more expensive option. That said it is WONDERFUL that very well trained and experienced tradesmen are able to inform the public of the truly BEST way to pave. Bet the ancient Romans knew the correct way.
I'm assuming the rest of the drive foundation was good? Only I think why would anyone skip the edges when laying foundation? Could it be they simply ran out of meterial and though sod it cars won't go up that close to the house?
Who knows. All's I do know is that you done a proper job.
So water is a issue here too
looks mega expensive could you not just chuck some sand on and put the bricks back
How the heck did you get all those different sized wedges back in the right place.
Only way I know to fix it is call someone who knows what their doing!!
Problem is everyone thinks they know what they’re doing! 😁
I just bought a house here in the city and I would like to know if anyone can repair and patch concrete surfaces on my driveway
I see the sunken area follows the gutter above. 🤔
Great job and clear for everyone….now I know what to do with my sinking pavement 😅
Thank you.
The broken bricks is a mistake. Pure concrete is needed.
Concrete is a mistake will not allow water to drain away.
Not as epic as your minecraft videos but helpful for those that need it
Lol thanks
Nice repair and I assume that the more costly "right way" would have been to rip the whole lot up in order to put in a complete hardcore and sub base?
Helpful video and info, though I did find it annoying to have large bold letters covering half the screen/image through a good portion of the video.
Shocking what builders get away with 😧good job on putting it right 👍
Why not use another driveway like concrete?, the blocks is just for the looking or have something to do with the rain?
Looking to DIY this at my home, but not looking to do such a big renovation, just a few bricks.
I would have tore up the entire path and caused way more work and expense… maybe 3-5” rocks base then some 3/4- gravel, then maybe a good 4” of concrete with rebar, then the sand and pavers…. See, way over the top.
This was a shared driveway and the property owner couldn't afford to do the whole drive so only wanted us to do the problem area. They couldn't get the neighbour on board with it either as the other half is essentially there's.
So this is what your up to when your not making youtube videos, wish you had more time for minecraft and gaming or creative videos but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do
How about spreading the kiln sand over the whole lot and wacker plating because what you put down wasnt and when drove on will sink
This is not like your other videos buts its done really well mike
Its not and it has thanks for watching
Step 1 remove shit interlock
Step 2 pour concrete and youll be good for decades
BTW, you tamp something down not tamper it.
I lived in Germany for 14 years stationed in the military. It was amazing watching them work with cobblestones and stone blocks. They could tear up an entire road, install new lines of some kind, and put everything back into place with no waste. I hated to run on them and cobbles can be bad on a motorcycle but they are beautiful and 100% reusable.
I was thinking gravel, why not gravel, 20-50 mm stones as base
I would just add some permasand instead of the kiln sand
why didn't he use a wacker plate or a elephant foot to make the stone more pact stead using a hammer,