On 26/08/2011 3:48 PM, 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.

I assume the crushed stone was like road crush, lots of silt and crap.
Ideal because you don't want the top sand to fill in loose crush at the
bottom or the thing will heave like Mae Wests ass.

One other thing that helps, and got it from an Italian stone guy, wash
and wet it down to help settle it.

Yep, for the cracks no need to pack. Just sweep it in.

Sounds like you did it more or less right. Your pics had me worried as
at one end you had stone yet the the right side didn't look to be done
with sand and gravel. I usually do all the layers at once. That is all
th gravel, then wet and pack. Then the sand all end to end just save
for the thin layer to level.


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If it is all Bush's fault, then how come Obama is doing much more of the
same and expecting different results?