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Default Brick paver patterns

On Aug 18, 11:30*am, "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas wrote:
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On Aug 17, 9:01 pm, "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas wrote:


Same here in the desert. We had quite a bit installed in Las Vegas about
three years ago. Looks exactly the same. BUT, those guys were out there
with a water filled roller packing the heck out of the sand before they
laid
the first brick. I think that's the trick. If you live in a place that has
frost heave, all bets are off. A lot of it is doing it right the first
time.


Up North we use crushed rock as the setting bed and use a plate
compactor to consolidate the substrate, then lay a thin layer of sand
for setting the pavers.


Again, a lot of it is in the prep work.


Yep, most of it. The pavers go down pretty quickly.

R