DIY Pea Gravel Patio
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- Опубликовано: 28 апр 2021
- Our DIY pea gravel patio/fire pit seating area. We are not professionals. This is not meant to be permanent. We did it this way because it was fast and easy. This type of patio will not last forever and we know that. It's a placeholder until we can get a cement patio poured in a couple years. This was our way of giving ourselves a nice, temporary patio/seating area on the cheap. We do plan on buying a gazebo and possibly building our own patio furniture. I've seen some good furniture tutorials here on RUclips so stay tuned for those videos of you are interested in out backyard makeover or the process of building our patio/fire pit seating area.
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The prices below include delivery. Delivery was $45 and we had 2 deliveries of stone. I used 1.5 cubic yards of pea gravel for the 12x20 patio/fire pit area. The rest was used for the grill area and around the fence line.
4 yards pea gravel-$300
2 yards field stone-$160
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Exactly the video I was looking for. I will try this on my own. Thanx for not making it look complicated. Easy peazy.
One word. . .DOGS!!! They were creating a high level of suspense & adorable-ness. I just couldn't click away. You're firepit & gravel are looks great too. Hope you & the doggos enjoy it. 😉
Everything is really looking good. You guys are amazing
I 'never' comment on youtube videos. I'm with almost everyone here - the dogs 'made' this video. How CUTE. Somewhere in the comments someone wrote, "I couldn't look away." Well neither could I. Your yard turned out really, really nice. You guys appear to work very well together, and your dogs are comical. Thank you for posting. Looking for different ideas for beneath our 2nd story deck and this gave me loads of inspiration. I especially appreciate the part where you told us how much material you ordered. That is a tremendous help for those of us with little to no frame of reference when it comes to this sort of stuff. Thank you again and enjoy your new space.
The dogs are hilarious. Love how they have to be with you every step of the way.
pupperinhos enjoying party time
I live for amateur diy videos! Currently in the process of revamping my yard and I needed this. Thank you
This was so helpful Thankyou for keeping it simple . I feel like u can totally do this!! Looks great!!
My husband and I are planning to do this soon and we enjoyed watching. It looks great! 🙂
Thank you and good luck with yours!
very smartly done and what a nice place to enjoy!!!
It looks great, and it’s so nice to have such helpful doggos! 😆
Beautiful! You work well together. Patios look good. ♥
This is EXACTLY what I'm trying to do to our back area! Thanks for making this video. I'm nervous about trying it, but it's good to know ya'll are not professionals either and your project turned out GREAT! :)
Take out the sod. Go down a couple inches. Don’t do like they did.
Im about to do something similar. this video was very helpful. BUT definitely put mulch glue on the gravel. It will keep it in place and prevent weeds from coming through as well as give it a longer life span
Looks great !!! I love your babies. They watch your every move ❤❤. Thank you for adopting the one doggie. You two are awesome.
This was such a gorgeous video! Straight to the point, amazing teamwork and the dogs - wee lhasa apsos? Adorable!!! Has given me alot of inspo 🎉
Turned out cute! Nice job
Thank you for this, Am not looking to do any digging this is beautiful
Love it!!! I’m Def going to give it a shot😉
I love the doggies helping!!! ❤❤❤❤
My fav part is when he said" i just want to say we are not professionals.."
Because thats me hahahha i literally watch videos that dnt have too much steps .. im looking for the diy non professionals.. thank you
Thanks for this! I was looking for a non-complicated, no-dig, temporary solution for our rental home.
I like the fence too good job 👏🏻
Great job. 👏👏👏 I am exploring ideas. Thanks
Love this!!
I love that the puppies helped lol
Looks great I love and plan to do this in my back yard. 1 thing , I will spray weed and grass kill down before I put the black paper, just double reinforcement. But I love great job.
I really love how you keep it simple and not over complicate things. I think too many professionals make it way more complicated and more work.
They got to make work
To get payed.
@@milmex317th yea.. or they know from experience you NEED to remove the grass before putting down the fabric.
@@megaflux7144 why do you need to remove the grass first?
@@megaflux7144 ... it is best to do that, but the grass will die fast without light so usually not an issue.
I am in the process of doing the same thing, but by myself. Thanks for the confirmation that I'm doing it right.
This isn't right at all. You need to dig down and have 6 inches of crushed stone as a base.
@@avocado6623 I did actually remove a few inches of sod, before I put down garden fabric. But this is stil really nice.
Just did this as well, great job
@@avocado6623 ... funny, I made a mulch island in my yard for shrubs and a flag pole. I put commercial fabric directly over the grass with an 8" overlap. Not one weed or blade of grass 4 years later. It can be done without digging if you use the right stuff.
Exactly what I needed. Thanks a million :-)
LOVE THIS
You guys inspired me thanks for the video
Fun video music and the patio! I’m going to do it
Thinking of doing something similar. Thanks for sharing!
Looks Nice!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wonderful 👍
awesome video!
Its the pooch supervisors for me lol good job
Cool idea. I'm thinking of doing this in my backyard. I have a nice shaded area where I can do it and it's pretty flat.
Great 👍🏻 work i like it!
I give credits to the dogs. They did most of the work ;) Thanks for sharing!
Nice..I'm gonna try it
Good job! We did something similar but put cardboard down before the weed stop. Kept the weeds out for a few years.
A few years is all we are hoping for too.
Had it worked @Thomas G?
I am taking out all the grass in my back yard and doing this as well but I am planning to remove the sod thanks for showing us your process
your way will last longer. Sadly grass and weeds can grow through anything if they have roots! I'd still use driveway fabric underneath areas where you absolutely don't want grass to grow
Good job :)
Came for the patio, stayed for the dogs.
Same!
I've been looking for a project like this. I'm glad that I have found it. Thanks for posting.
Not taking out the sod first, even with the fabric, give it a year-ish. Definitely going to have spots with grass and weeds. You need to remove sod, slightly trench the border, then fabric, then put in border and gravel. It's a PAIN but worth it in the end.
We understand what we did. It's not meant to be permanent. The description explains a little more.
Thanks for this comment. It's helping me figure out a game plan for our yard!
Definitely, I always watch at least 10 videos before I start a project.
what if you double layer the fabric? would that help?
@Pat Russell actually I came across the video when researching patio ideas for one of my rental properties. I've put in 5 pea gravel patios and several garden walkways, the first patio basically doing exactly what they did because I didn't know any better and ended up causing myself twice the amount of work. Sharing knowledge is sort of the point of these videos...
glad you said it was temporary, i took all my graas out so it last years before grass started growing in because of dirt and seed that birds drop..then the other thing that kill me was the dogs every time they would run through on it i had to go fix that. the outside cats using it for toilet., now I'm looking around for something permanent..
THANK YOU! I will do the same.
My brother and l are planning to do the same thing 😘
DOING A FRONT PATIO THIS WEEK.
Ahhhh, flat and level ground…must be nice. 😂 I’m doing something similar, with retaining wall stones on a sloped area. Wish me luck!
Good luck!
Same here….
even on my slight slope the gravel gets slowly moved downhill from walking on it over time.
Thank you for showing this process! Do you mind sharing how this has held up?
I plan on making an update video soon, when I get some time. Check my channel in the next few weeks.
Looks nice partner, great job 👍🏾
Nice
I love it great job.
Kiss = keep it
simple sunny.
Any videos on the fence install?
Thank you for sharing. Im looking to do the gravel and then put an outdoor rug and gazebo over it.
Super...
Glad someone else has done it the same as me, cheats way. But it does work, who's got diggers and hardcore and Wacker plates 🤗
What if you put a layer of polymeric sand on top to hold the pea-gravel together?
Great work, my garden is all uneven with compacted soil, any suggestions.
I don't know much about this type of stuff. That's part of the reason we did ours this way. Probably better to find help from someone who does this sort of thing for a living. I'd hate to give out wrong information.
Would love an update. How did the landscape fabric hold up? Get lots of weeds and grass popping through?
I made a one year update video, the link is in the description. I plan on making another update video in the next few weeks.
ruclips.net/video/hXCu7YSeQPo/видео.htmlsi=cuv_0cOYR10zkFPs
Thank you for inspiring.. I’m looking for something easy I can do myself too! I like to know what did you put on grass before covering it up with that landscaping paper?
We didn't put anything on the grass besides the landscaping fabric.
@@TheInexperiencedAdventures hey ty but how long afterwards grass underneath will grow .. if u can give any updates because if I don’t have to worry about any grass or weed growing underneath or do I have to spray weed killer something? I’m an amateur to this and this will be my diy project
@@foodiesworldUSA Just to be clear, this is not the correct way to do this project. If you do this just know that it won't last forever. You may only get a couple years out of it. That being said, around the perimeter we had to spray weed and grass killer and some grass has grown though the pebbles but we just pull them out.
The dog 🐕CHEATED!!! Didn't do any work but enjoyed the completed project🤣
Hi!! Love how it all turned out. Def want to try this in my large backyard. So tired of mowing so much lawn! You left your lawn as it was and didn't dig. How has it held up? Did it maintain well?
It's held up fine so far. A few weeds pop up through the gravel and along the fence but it's easy enough to pull those.
we put in pea gravel around our pond as a seating area, but it gets dragged out of the area since we have no edging and weird problem is some of my shoes the gravel gets stuck between the lugs and gets tracked in the house LOL
Did you guys do your fence yourself? Any details on it? It looks great!
We did not. We had a small company install it. I don't have many details on it.
We are going to do a pea gravel patio. Do you know if there is any advantage or disadvantage to digging up the ground vs just tarping over the grass?
The way we did it isn't the proper way to do it. Digging up the grass is the way to properly do it. Along with other steps I'm sure. Ours is meant to be temporary.
Looks great!! How’s it holding up?!
So far it's held up great. A few weeds pop through the gravel and along the fence line but it's fairly quick and easy to weed.
This is the way to go green
Good job how much $ for everything?
All Stores Please Lower the price of all Military and Local for all Brands of Gravel Products and Accessories and Production Cost Now That's too much $$ The Whole World Now 🙏🙏🙏
Looks great man. How much would you say you used for the first area? That's about the exact size of what I'm trying to do.
I used about 1.5 cubic yards of pea stone for the first area.
Looks great. Only suggestion would be to kill the grass or dig it out. Landscaping only does so much. Thanks for the idea for my back yard though.
This isn't meant to be permanent. The whole point of doing it the way we did was it was easy and it will last a few years until we get a cement patio poured.
Also where are you getting drainage from? Through the privacy fence? That’ll make the legs start to rot
Water goes straight into the ground. This patio doesn't change that. I'm assuming when you say "legs" you are talking about the fence posts. Our fence posts are metal so they won't rot.
We just covered our grass with fabric today while we wait for our stone delivery early this week. How did yours hold up with regard to weeds coming through?
Weeds poke through here and there but they're easy to pull. Grass growing around the perimeter stones was terrible though and terrible to weed whip. We used weed and grass killer spray along the perimeter and it's been super easy to maintain.
@@TheInexperiencedAdventures thank you so much!
I wanna do this in my garden but I have metal chairs like those. When u sit on them done it cause holes in the netting stuff then cause chairs to sink?
Yes. I talk about that in the 1 year update video. We cut small blocks of wood to put under each leg of our furniture and covered them with the stones.
As you didn't removed the grass, how the patio doing? weeds growing under the pebbles?
Doing pretty good still. I have a 1 year update video on my channel.
Hello, I think what you did was beautiful! Your doggies seemed so excited haha. Can I ask about your fence? It looks very strong and sturdy and I'm just wondering how it's installed? Are those metal looking posts cemented into the ground? TIA
Yes they are cemented into the ground.
@@TheInexperiencedAdventures thank you!
I would like to take on this project. How has it held up since you installed it? What kind of maintenance does it take? Looks great. I can't wait to do it as well.
If you go to my channel I posted a one year update video on it that answers those questions. I posted it about ten months ago. Probably be more helpful than me answering here.
@@TheInexperiencedAdventures on my way.
can you make an updated video?
I've made two update videos. There is a link to the one year update video in the description. There is a two year update video on my channel as well.
How is it holding out? Some say to add a compact layer but I'd rather do as you did. Is everything still level?
So far it's held up really well. I did go around the whole thing with weed and grass killer because trimming around it was terrible. After we did that it's been pretty amazing. Grass grows here and there in the stones but they are easy to pull. I don't expect to get many years out of it though. The test will be how it holds up through the winter.
@@TheInexperiencedAdventures great stuff. A little bit or weed / grass plucking is not the end of the world. Aa you say, it doesn't have to be forever
The fur babies were trying to help.
Any updates on how it looks today?
I have a couple of update videos on my channel.
How does it look a year later? Did grass grow through the fabric and stone?
It still looks good I just posted an update video. Check it out on my channel.
how bad are the weeds and grass now after not clearing the area first?
There's a link to the one year update video in the description. I talk about the weeds in that.
We just did the same thing. Do you find it hard to walk on the pea gravel? My feet sink with every step. Thanks.
Yeah. The pea gravel is almost like walking in sand but we like the way it looks.
Tampering the ground prior will help with this.
I just installed plastic gravel grids bought from Amazon It further compacts the gravel. So far so good!
Where did you our purchase your field stones and pea gravel ?
It's a local business that sells a bunch of different landscaping stones and mulch. I have seen field stone for free on Facebook marketplace. Lot's of times people just need to get rid of it. Might be worth it to check there.
What was that under stones? Is it cloth or polythene?
It is landscape fabric. Not plastic.
Did yall consider digging up and putting the border stones in the grass? Why did yall decide not to?
Because that would have been too much work. This isn't meant to be permanent or perfect. Eventually we want a cement patio but it will be a few years till then.
We bought a house with this kind of patio. Has a lot of weeds. How do I take care of it?
Not much you can do besides pull weeds and spray weed and grass killer.
Dog is best part
Can we get an update? Im about to dig and break my back, id rather do this if it lasted?!
There is a one year update video link in the description and a two year update video on my channel.
How is it holding up so far?
Pretty good. I recently uploaded a 2 year update video.
I did my patio, but I removed the grass and placed plastic under and never had weeds. No sure how this will go. 😮
What is the black thing called that you lay down ?
Landscape fabric.
Hi can you tell me what kind this pea pebbles are called
It's just called pea gravel. No special name for it.
Should’ve loosened the top soil also
Should’ve dug the edge out
Are you in Canada or in the US ?
US