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In this episode I am redoing the pavement of my small front garden. Lately I did some #paving projects for customers. I combine that with making outdoor furniture.
So this was a good reason to make a video about it. The small space is about 9 m^2 or about 80 ‘^2. Relative small, but we want to use it as a small seating area and later on a place for nice plants.
So far i am clearing the old #pavers, They are quite worn down by the rains and there are a lot of weeds overgrowing. The weed need to be taken out with the roots and some soil otherwise they will return.
I am digging a area away from the greens were more paving will come. The total paving area will be slightly bigger than before. Along the edge of the old paving there was a line of long shaped pavers placed deeper in the ground for stabilization. I will keep most of it in place for the same reason.
After that low spot were filled with sand. This sand is quite sharp and stacks nicely if you would. This stabilizes the pavers on top. This gets evenly raked over the area. It is handy to use a level if you are unsure if it is evenly and level.
Then I could compact it. It is always fun to start up a pertrol engine. The compacting pushes the ground together letting the extra space and air escape. This prevents the paver shift and sink over time. This compacting is really important for paving which gets walked on or driven over. When there is less load, its less important.
After the compacting there will be high and low spots even if you level it perfectly before. Within the different ground layers there are different densities so it is smart to level after the compacting.
And then I could start placing the pavers. First stacking them in an easy accessibel place. Having someone handing you the pavers really speeds things up.
These pavers have different shapes and size so this will give a playfull pattern in the end. The trick is to placet hem staggered, not lining up the joints between them. For the aestethics this is good but also fort he stability of the combination.
I am leaving a gap here for water drainage. There will be gravel put in placet here. When the #rainwater flows from the paving it can flow into this gap. This is a great help if you want to make your patio rainwater friendly. In the end this also gives a nice change in the pattern.
At the end of the paver I placed a long paver deeper in the ground to stabilize and not let the pavers drift over time. Later on I covered this with ground.
Then I could placet he gravel in the gaps. First regular gravel and over that white gravel. This will make the colors of the pavers come out better. Ofcourse later on weeds can peek through the gravel so that has tob e maintained.
And that was the job done. I did some grass next to it and placed some decoration in the corner and no wit looks quite smart. This whole process is quite quick in less than a day this transformed this corner of the garden.
Very happy ho wit came out! Thanks for watching!
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