Current wall and patio project

[MuirView Landscape]

Looking great. Nice work on all the inlay cutting.

[joeymaze]

Paver inlays do look killer. Ever since I saw GM's house last year, I love your inlay work. To be honest, before I started coming here I would put in a circle kit here and there or an ocassional double border, but I find myself doing more inlays myself now. Thanks for the inspiration.

[danf]

The inlays look nice, but they can be a major PITA. This entire patio (roughly 800 sf or less) took 6 days to lay, and about 1/2 of it has yet to be poly sanded. It seemed like it took forever to lay; part of it was due to access- everything had to come in from one spot, part of it was due to not being able to complete 100% of the base work before the pavers went down. Every inlay we did was banded with the Stonehenge, which required 2 cuts- and there was no room for error on the second cut.

Yeah, they look cool, but they eat up a LOT of time. The main reason we did so much was because Mark bought a bunch of pavers CHEAP last fall, and we are trying to use them up. Didn't have enough of any one color/style to do the whole patio!

[cgland]

Cheap bastard! LOL Looks great

[danf]

Updated with pics from today. I just realized that those are the only pictures I took this week, but the last wall had 2-3 courses extended and then capped earlier in the week, and the seat wall was finished as well.

Tuesday we poly-sanded the remainder of the pavers. I shut off the hose literally as the rain started falling. Fortunately we had tarps/plastic already out (had it covered the night before) and got them pulled over the pavers. The big tarp isn't exactly waterproof any more, so I was worried about the poly washing out and "hazing" the pavers. I pulled the tarps off Wednesday morning but couldn't tell if the poly had washed out (the sand stayed in the joints) because the pavers were still wet. I was quite happy to get there today to find that everything was OK.

[4seasons]

the patio between the walls.... Is it one of the rain pave brick? If so what was your drainage field like?

[danf]

Yes, the pavers in front of the basement door are permeable. For the application and the site, there's 12" of 3/4" clean stone with a thin layer of 3/8" stone on top for a setting bed. Everything on this site is sand, had conditions been different we likely would have used more stone.

[danf]

Updated again. Not much left do on this project.

I suspect the fire pit is being used as I type this.

[danf]

Mark posted a finished picture of the fire pit today, as well as the granite counter top being set.

There's just a bit of cleanup work left on this one and we're done. As soon as we get a machine running again we can get that little bit finished.