DIY PAVER WALKWAY INSTALLATION
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
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This week I tackled the front walkway of the house and replaced the old bricks with a new paver walkway. This project was a ton of work but all in this project cost me less than $400 to complete thanks to an awesome hookup with the pavers and most of that money going towards extended tool rentals because of the rain. Really happy with the result and can't beat the price even if it was a lot of backbreaking labor!
Really I admire people who know how to do these DIY things and work so hard to turn out a perfect job in spite of setbacks like the weather. This fellow has the perfect formula for great work. Kudos!
like how you kept the circumstances and difficulty in the video, keeps it real and lets you know what to do if it happens to them
I was weary about making a paver patio without the gravel base, but you just eased my mind. Thank you!
The only time you needed it to rain; to lock the sand into place between the pavers...
No rain-
All in all; great work and perseverance. It definitely made its a lot safer and makes that area look better.👍🏻
Thank you. Your troubles with the project will help me shut up my complaining mind as I try to muddle through the a Florida heat and mosquitoes.
Your work is absolutely beautiful.
That brick walkway was actually really cool looking
You did a beautiful job! Lots of work but you saved money doing yourself and you have the pride in knowing what you are capable of!!
I plan to do this with old brick, to make a curving walkway. Glad you showed how to do this without concrete.
man, you did an astonishing path renovation, excellent job.
Without a doubt..... the greatest 6 minute video ever
In Denmark, you would never put soil underneath your paving.
Soil is a organic material meaing that it will move around, if the temperature drops, reaises, the material gets soaked etc etc.
The way to do it here would be :
6 inches of light gravel og sand with bigger corns and smaller stones in.
6 inches of something we call "stabilgrus" that is a gravel type with loads of rocks in in many sizes between 0-01⁄4in rocks in, and also som binding material in form of clay and sand, so that it compacts really nice together.
1-2 inches of sand on top to lay the paving in.
Eeach alyer gets compacted.
The first to layers with a 150-400 kg compacter
the toplayer with a 50-100kg compacter
Now its ready for screeding and laying pavers.
Some times we will use a compactor on top of the paving again, specially if it is a driveway, or has some sort of heavy trafic.
But its very interesting to see what you would do in another country.
Truth be told, the after looks better than the before. Good video.
"A lot of shoveling, and it's gonna suck." Subscribed....
yeah that caught me off guard, definitely lol'd on that one!
This turned out very well. I am can empathize with you on the rain situation. I feel like a lot of my projects are on hold while the weather decides what it wants to do. I'm glad you pushed through and finished strong. This gave me the motivation I need to finish the projects I have in mind. One of them will be a walkway to the door and I'm excited to see how it turns out. Thank you for the encouragement :)
Nice work and very helpful tips on pavers. Thank you!! Enjoy them.
I would love to see an update video from you. I know you and your wife must be busy with regular work and the baby, but if you get time and would be willing to show us a video highlighting what the home was like when you moved in and what it looks like now I would be so excited! You've done so many incredible projects, and re-watching you do this walkway makes me want to see what it looks like a year later. Thanks again for all the wonderful videos!
Beautiful job. Thanks from the UK.
This turned out great. We're wanting to do something similar to our walkway on the side of our house. In Arizona we don't get much moisture so I'm happy about that. The tiny walk way we have now looks like it was literally just laid out without any actual work so it's all crocked and warped and looks terrible. I can't wait to do this in the future
Any suggestions for folks who...
#1 looking to start from scratch. Meaning what I have now is grass but would like a walk way similar to what you finished with
#2 I subscribed to your channel today because I hoped to find somewhere on RUclips how to safely, easily and with as little mess as possible breaking glass panes out of an antique wooden door. Anyway, came across your video on putting an entire glass front on a standard “steel” door which looked great. Watched more videos and you tend to use quite a few tools I do not have for projects. I try to do as much as I can as cheap as possible with using minimal saws, grinders, planes, etc...cause I cannot afford such tools to do all the jobs id like to do like this video especially.
I rambled i know but i sure would love to see projects using out of the ordinary type items (scrap wood, pallets, PVC Pipe, milk crates, just stuff ordinary people can find laying around dumpsters or salvage yards).
I need a walkway like that and almost that size but cant afford all those pavers, the tool you used to flatten it, i dont have connections like you do to borrow a tractor or cannot even afford rent some of those tools you use in a lot of videos. What suggestions do you recommend to people to create a walkway using very little tools and make it safe and wye catching?
Adding a segment to your show once a week, 2 times a week maybe called something like Low Budget DIY projects 101 or DIY for dummies on a dime. I need/want to do many things that you can do with your eyes closed (gate on my fence needs major repair, need a work bench with storage and to fit Mitre saw correctly, drainage from small, medium to large size, painting a ceiling efficiently (i paint ceiling FIRST, then walls) i NEED something to store all my pieces of little hardware. Tons of bolts, washers, screws of all sizes, nails, conduit extenders, clips, zip ties, name it snd i most likely have a F load. I’d love to see a segment on a cheap way to make a wall unit without buying all those plastic containers that I can neatly store all kinds (lets go with 100 different pieces, some have a lot more than others) hardware.
I like how you explain what you are doing and a Buffalo Bills fan...my only issue is, i cant afford to purchase most tools you use please help my family by helping me do something im proud of and dont F up like most times i do. Thanks
Oh my God. I cannot believe how much work you did. Looks fabulous.
I love the push through at the end, great work ethic!
I have been watching a lot of DIY paver pathway videos, and this is the best so far.
Love it when I watch a How To video and end up saying, "That's how I did it when I didn't know what I was doing!!!" Reused old clay bricks to do two small 3' x 2.5' areas across a flower bed surrounding our patio. Turned out well so I'm going to add paths beside our driveway (maybe 20" wide by 40 linear feet total) concrete strips with timbers on outside. 1940s house that has, "Hey, I wonder how I can fix / upgrade that mess," projects all around it. Great video.
Nearly perfect, i noticed that 177 pavers in and 4th across from the left is 1mm to high, just thought i would mention it, great job though, i live in Scotland and it started to rain in September 1978 and has just stopped about an hour ago, the ground is a little wet, but i should get the grass cut before it starts again.
So funny! Love ya! Thanks for stopping by.
Stunning job, transformed the look of it for sure
Big difference. Thanks for posting this.
You’ve got some very useful friends 😉 .....nice job 👏
Nicely done walkway. nice and simple.
WoW! lots of work, but looks great! Nice job!
How beautiful your yard came out love the color scheme. Lots of work though, but it was worth it. Thanks for sharing. Take care
awesome final result!
Great work mate. What a hard work 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Super looking walkway now. Easy on the eyes. Good times!
Very nice. Will do mine this weekend. Thanks for the video.
Great job! That looked like a ton of work. But it paid off.
That is a super tedious job. Great work! Love your videos!
We replaced our gutters, replaced our siding, added a sliding door and redid our front patio & walkway....while it rained and was cold. The day before projects start, clear and warm. The day after project ends, clear and warm.
Never fails. 😑
Wow thats a lot of work! The end results are amazing.
That looks beautiful, well done mate..
Great demonstration. I live in Georgia and wonder if we need sand, probably because we get a lot of rain and sometimes snow! Thanks for your time and effort. Great looking job!
Nice work. Lots of it. Funny how all those projects have unintended consequences, like the dimensions of the bricks force you to redo you irrigation...
I might have not used just dirt as a fill material after all the work to dig that out. Perhaps come compacted gravel would provide a longer base for those pavers. But the landscape fabric will help a little with that.
Looks great...
i am sorry to tell you but your friend gave you a bad advise if you have place gravel in the first place you would not have any problem with compaction
This looks so good! The video and final work came out amazing!
Nice
You should use gravel and mortal in the edges in these soft grounds!
What an awesome result! Looks so much better. Great job.
Hell yes nice job big difference it worth all the effort and hard work👌👌
can only imagine how that convo went with the wife.. you’ve been working and making noise all day! Give it a rest until tomorrow.. yeah so I can go to sleep and have it rain and mess up all the work I did?? No way I’m finishing this tonight!
Awesome bro you make it look so easy
This was a great video and a great help. I have much of the same problems so very informational. Beautiful job completed.
It looks amazing! Such hard work but you handled it gracefully 😄 I would've pulled all my hair out! Lol
Dude that was a freken awesome clip! I literally felt like I was there with your voiceover and story-line. Great job man! Turned out great and I learned some stuff. Thx
you did a great job it looks awesome. Thank you for this video
wow , love your work! i am inspired. currently i am on the same project as you trying to get my garden into shape... and currently i have lots and lots of work to do!
I wish I had time and a good back to do this kind of stuff. Great job.
Good job. Congratulation from Cantabria, next to Basque Country.
it looks soooo much better! great work!
Nice job sir. Long time gone but I had to comment.
Nice job! Very inspirational!
Man I would have gave you a hand. Good thing we need the rain. Looks like next week it's raining too.
That walkway looks awesome!
Great job at making it interesting and specifically detailed at the same time. It helps to know why the orignal bricks failed and how to prevent it once you relayed the new pavers.
Looks fantastic! Good thinking with widening it so you don't have to make the cuts.
Way to stick with it! Looks amazing!
Fantastic vid, I’ve been There, seen it, and done it all before , short , sweet and to the point as we say in England we’ll done mate 🇺🇸🇬🇧
that turned out great.... I also always laugh out loud when the words "I hate my house" splash across the screen because I know the feeling... :-)
Great job looks awesome
It looked like you had a plastic sheet or weed mat over the dirt but under the sand. What was that? Nice job by they way.
Great job! My back got sore just watching!
Came out nice man
Looks amazing
Dude, came out awesome, great job 👌
Turned out great! 👍🏻
the previous bricks were so much better looking than the new ones..
I’m in southern CA. Thankful to receive your thoughts on laying a proper foundation with So California clay soil.
Curious. How is your pathway now that it’s been 7 years since you created it?
dude! great time lapse on a track! quality shots
Nice job, all the best!
that looks fanstastic!
I just did a paver walkway myself. It does suck. But I have to ask, why did you use such small pavers? Larger ones would have saved a bit more time?
You are very cool. I wish Could work for you, but instead I work for Lowes. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 looks great
Yeah your workload was crazy, but efforts didn't go in vain. Good job
Remember when it rained and the dirt got soft? That's why you use a good compacted base and not the dirt from your back yard
right!!!
Yet, they were elements that justified his decision. And getting rid of your pile of dirt while avoiding to bring in (and spending) on more material certainly has an interesting advantage.
Thanks for sharing. That is one neat looking walkway.
Amazing outcome, well worth the effort!
damn your channel just died. you were making food videos though.
It’s look beautiful and amazing. Great work
Very nice, very informative. Thank you.
Very very good job man.
I live in the same area and have installed pavers many times and witnessed many installations. I've never seen any spec allowing for installation over compacted earth alone. Road base or 4 inches assorted gravel is the norm and for good reasons.. Who knows, perhaps this may hold up anyway. Wet soil is plastic and may give out when saturated with many rains.
You know how it turned to mud before you put down the pavers, what do you think will happen to that dirt woth the pavers on top when it rains....it’ll sink like the previous path.
The base is the most important
Alex Carlone do you have experience in this field?
John mcdonald yes
@@JMc.D You usually need at least 12 inches worth of gravel, then a soft setting sand for leveling. This shit is not fun, and takes much more time than this dude took to make it worthwhile and stable.
@@noahwhipkey6262 12 inches for east coast probably, i would do at least 3 inches for socal. It was kind of sad watching him dig out the sand and replace it with dirt when he woukd have put gravel down and do it right
@@pjballs69 it depends more on the dirt, but i don't live in sand. gonna be a shitty day when he has to pull up all those pavers and rent a bobcat
Wow 🤩 great job!!
omg! u r so talented awesome job!
that looks great! Keep these videos coming!
Looks great !
OMG that is awesome job you are a hero
It turned out really good.
Great video, thanks for this..👍👍
Gorgeous!!
I have a similar walkway, only it is a series of about 4 offset tiers. The 6x6 timbers are rotting (this was built in 2004). Do you think I should try to carefully remove the old timbers, or replace them with stone blocks or paver edging? Some spots in some of the tiers are beginning to sink, so I will likely have to do some digging and replacing subbase and sand? Maybe better to just remove everything and start over?
I have a walkway to do and you answered my questions, thanks.
Well done, brilliant job
nice ! do you have any tips on elevated patio with road crush in cold areas