We have been working on the paver walkway recently and it looks great! Here’s the progress through pictures:
Before shot. We left dirt where we wanted the walkway when we landscaped the house. Over the last year, weeds and grass and grown up, making it not so very attaractive.
Adam dug down about 6” of the dirt to allow for enough room for our base and pavers. We set up a string line, marking where we wanted the top of the pavers to go. This helped with digging a consistent depth.
We rented a compactor and compacted the dirt.
The right is the pile of dirt we removed from under our new walkway. The left is the paver base we had delivered.
Then we laid about 4” of the paver base – crushed granite. Adam used some pipes and a straight edge to get a level base.
Here’s the work in progress. This stuff compacts really well.
The finished paver base. Now, this was Saturday, Oct. 15th. Our paver order came in wrong, so we were not able to lay the pavers that day. Disappointing, but we wanted what we ordered, so we had to wait a few extra days.
We used leftover tar paper to protect the paver base from the elements for a few days while we waited for the pavers to get here.
The paver arrived!
Adam laid out the pavers along the way and got layout started.
After one night’s work alone, look at all the progress Adam made!
I helped him on the second night and we finished laying all the whole pieces on the curve to the porch.
We’ve been working on the cut pieces this week, here we have most of them in place.
The curve is getting filled in.
Adam used a grinder to make the cuts and a mason’s chisel to finish the break.
I started laying the edging in place, to keep the paver’s location locked in.
After we finished the cuts, banged them down with a rubber mallet and cleaned off the surface, Adam spread gray polymeric sand over the pavers. This is a special sand that will solidify when wet. This helps to lock the pavers in place, keeps weeds from growing through and will not need to be replaced.
You can see the curve has all the finished cuts.
Adam used the hose to wet the polymeric sand.
Here’s the finished product this with dirt and mulch filled in!
Before shot. We left dirt where we wanted the walkway when we landscaped the house. Over the last year, weeds and grass and grown up, making it not so very attaractive.
Adam dug down about 6” of the dirt to allow for enough room for our base and pavers. We set up a string line, marking where we wanted the top of the pavers to go. This helped with digging a consistent depth.
We rented a compactor and compacted the dirt.
The right is the pile of dirt we removed from under our new walkway. The left is the paver base we had delivered. 
Then we laid about 4” of the paver base – crushed granite. Adam used some pipes and a straight edge to get a level base.
Here’s the work in progress. This stuff compacts really well.
The finished paver base. Now, this was Saturday, Oct. 15th. Our paver order came in wrong, so we were not able to lay the pavers that day. Disappointing, but we wanted what we ordered, so we had to wait a few extra days.
We used leftover tar paper to protect the paver base from the elements for a few days while we waited for the pavers to get here.
The paver arrived!
Adam laid out the pavers along the way and got layout started.
After one night’s work alone, look at all the progress Adam made!
I helped him on the second night and we finished laying all the whole pieces on the curve to the porch.
We’ve been working on the cut pieces this week, here we have most of them in place.
The curve is getting filled in.
Adam used a grinder to make the cuts and a mason’s chisel to finish the break.
I started laying the edging in place, to keep the paver’s location locked in.
After we finished the cuts, banged them down with a rubber mallet and cleaned off the surface, Adam spread gray polymeric sand over the pavers. This is a special sand that will solidify when wet. This helps to lock the pavers in place, keeps weeds from growing through and will not need to be replaced.
You can see the curve has all the finished cuts.
Adam used the hose to wet the polymeric sand.
Here’s the finished product this with dirt and mulch filled in!
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