X ` Man wrote:
On 8/26/11 5:36 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 26/08/2011 9:02 AM, X ~ Man wrote:
...I finished up the patio.

http://tinyurl.com/3wl9pnz

So did you water it down, tamp it with a tamper and fill the cracks with
sand?

Well, I did a bit more than that. After the ground was excavated, I
used a gasoline powered compactor on the soil, followed by crushed
stone, followed by the compactor, followed by polymeric sand, followed
by the compactor. Ran it over the brick, too. I swept the sand into
the joints but the joints are not supposed to be tightly filled with
the sand, according to the brick supplier. I don't expect the brick to
move.


Even I know running a plate compactor over paving bricks will **** them
up, silly!

-HB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg