Hank wrote:
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Many years ago streets were paved with bricks. They couldn't hold up
to the traffic and weight.

Yet- in the two 17th century cities near me, Schenectady & Albany, NY,
whenever the city tears up a really old street-- there are those
bricks beneath the concrete or blacktop or whatever they used to cover
the old brick.

And as soon as they disturb the base and don't replace it as well as
the boys in 1650 did, those streets need constant maintenance.

Bricks are bumpy- it wasn't the weight of vehicles, but the poor
suspension of early 19th century vehicles that brought brick to
disfavor.

While some cities today are putting in
brick crosswalks with better materials and prepwork, they still are
not holding up.

Because it doesn't pay to have a road crew do the work necessary to
build a base for them. But the difference between a patio and a
road is epic. A road needs a 4-5' base with graduated sizes of
fill- each layer machine tamped to a point of no more compression.

A 6" machine tamped base over landscape cloth will hold a paver patio
secure for decades. A failure can be cured in a 1/2 day by anyone
who has ever played in a sandbox.

If you want to do it once, pour a pad.

The prep is the same. It is unlikely that a DIYer has the skills to
make it come out looking as nice as pavers. And any failure leads
to tear-out-and-start-over.

Jim