Paver Base Material - DIY Home Improvement Forum
2011年4月30日 · Just a uniform,uncompacted 1" setting bed of clean concrete sand over a compacted road base material. Work fine sand into the tight joints between units. For the thinner, less stable type of larger pavers - "stepping stones", slate, concrete slabs, etc., the requirements may be different to minimize joint/unit heights and cracking of the paving ...
How much will road base compact? - DIY Home Improvement Forum
2010年1月29日 · This is how we install every brick paver patio and since we started installing a deeper base we have not encountered one problem down the road. I also recommend installing a filter fabric or quality geo-textile between your existing sub-base and base stone that you install.
Reusing pavers and base material - DIY Home Improvement Forum
2017年5月20日 · I have a small 15 x 15 paver patio about 10 years old sinking in several places. I want to pull up and reset the pavers in a better base. I had a concrete border/curb installed around the perimeter levelled and sloped ready to be my guide for the paver reinstallation. The existing pavers were laid on what appears to be about 4 inches of bedding ...
Small rock bed edging retaining wall. Do I need paver base?
2023年8月23日 · Your title has led a bit astray. You do not have a retaining wall, you have landscape edging. You do not need a base whatsoever, and I would say it would even lead to more problems. Because, you would have to dig 4" below the sidewalk, to put in a 4" thick gravel base, and that base is only going to be 3" wide (the width of a "brick").
Compaction of base material for paver patio
2011年7月6日 · For example: a 20'x20' patio would need 7.4 yards of base material [ (20 x 20) x (0.5) ] / (26.99) = 7.4 If it is sold by the ton, tell the supplied how many yards you need and they should now what tonnage of their product it would take to equal that.
24" x 24" pavers - DIY Home Improvement Forum
2022年2月19日 · You want to pour 5 little piers of concrete for each paver? If you have grass there already, cut straight down with a spade along the outline of the path, about 3” deep. Place the sand, level it. Lay the pavers on top of the sand. The grass and soil will keep the grass in place, and the pavers will be about flush with the grass.
Paver Patio Base Material - DIY Home Improvement Forum
2009年6月17日 · I'm putting in a 15' x 10' stone paver patio. I called the local quarry and they suggested using "Class i sand" as the 5 inch base with another 1 inch of depth of the polymeric sand on top of it. They said the "class i" has a relative consistency of kitty litter and is real dusty.
Is 3/4" crushed rock to big for patio paver base
2012年4月21日 · Is 3/4" crushed rock too big for a patio paver base layer? I'm laying out a new patio where there was previously a lawn, 26' x 12'. I am putting down 24" x 24" concrete pavers on 4" of crushed rock and then I was going to put landscape fabric on top with 1" of course sand.
Help with paver walkway base material - DIY Home Improvement …
2014年8月11日 · First I was going to dig down & level. Than put in a crushed stone base tamped down. Then a bed of sand & then the pavers. I will also use a landscape fabric to block weed growth. But then I found this material at the box store. It was panels of a fairly hard foam that goes down on the ground instead of the crushed stone base.
Brick Patio/Walkway rehab | DIY Home Improvement Forum
2018年8月22日 · 10" is not too outlandish to be removed and filled with crushed gravel, and paver base and the final inch of sand, to make this correct. You will spend more using the polypropelene stuff, than the time and cost of removing the sand to the more solid layer of soil, than necessary.