How to Build Your Own Paver Patio (Full Backyard DIY Project)
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- Mateo transforms his backyard by installing a paver patio. He turns starts this DIY journey to do it all himself to save over 22,000$ and look as best as possible.
With determination and a desire to learn, he documented his journey in a comprehensive video, sharing step-by-step insights into his process. What started as a backyard dream became a reality, all achieved for under $4,500, a fraction of the cost of hiring a professional installer.
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Video Sections:
0:00 Introduction
0:44 Buying new or used paver stones
1:18 Excavation for the paver patio
2:22 Laying the geotextile fabric
3:30 Lifting the pool sidewalk
4:20 Leveling the gravel base for pavers
7:41 Screeding layer of stone dust/sand for pavers
13:13 Installing and laying paver stones
22:00 How to make curve cuts in pavers with a cut off saw
24:46 How to make a straight cut using a cut off saw
26:19 Laying the border pavers and edge restraint
27:17 Border pavers with cement base
28:17 Making a modern patio walk way
28:46 Get rid of your pavers fast the smart way
29:20 How to cut pavers beside sidewalk
30:54 Applying polymeric sand to a paver patio
32:50 Finished Results
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Selecting the perfect pavers was the first step, leading him to scour online marketplaces for deals. After securing a bargain, the real work began. Clearing the area was no small feat, but with the help of a generous neighbor and some ingenuity, the groundwork was laid.
The traditional method of patio installation served as his guide, with meticulous attention to detail at every stage. From excavating the ground to addressing uneven surfaces and even raising a sunken sidewalk, each challenge was met head-on.
The key to success lay in the foundation - a carefully leveled gravel base meticulously crafted to ensure durability and longevity. Despite setbacks and challenges, the homeowner's perseverance paid off as he perfected each aspect of the process.
With the groundwork complete, laying the pavers became a labor of love. Despite initial struggles, the homeowner quickly found his rhythm, aided by the support of friends and family. As the patio took shape, so did a sense of accomplishment and pride.
Even as the project neared its end, attention to detail remained paramount. Edge restraints were installed, and intricate cuts were made to ensure a seamless finish. Polymeric sand was meticulously applied to lock the pavers in place, completing the transformation.
I also teach you how to use a cut off saw, and show you how my first paver cut went versus my last cut, I went from noob beginner to someone that could make very complicated paver stone cuts all day long.
Through dedication, resourcefulness, and a willingness to learn, the homeowner turned a vision into reality, creating a backyard oasis to be enjoyed for years to come.
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Thank you!
Absolutely beautiful work, well done... proud!!! I'm going to have a go myself but using a electric wheelbarrow, I don't have the same strength as you anymore. Thumbs up
Warms my heart seeing you have your boys working with you. That’s the kind of stuff that makes a good man
You created a great outdoor structure… but much more importantly, you created lifelong memories with your sons. The kiddie wheelbarrow was priceless!!! Well done!
Indeed! Thank you for the comment
That ending is exactly what my wife says after each project. Haha. The kids helping was awesome. So helpful and the small wheelbarrow made it perfect for distributing the crushed rock evenly. Nice work!!
Thanks for watching! Glad you stuck around til the end and hopefully you had a good laugh 😂
💯💯💯
You'r not the only one, my wife reactions are similar ;)
I can't give you enough credit in so many aspects. That is not by any means a weekend job for sure. The shear determination to take on a task like this speaks volumes to the type of person your are. As much as a pain kids can be " I know" The fact that you allowed them to help the best they could will be remembered by them as they grow to men for sure, if nothing else as a lesson that if your are willing you are able. Great job! 100 👍
Thanks a lot for the awesome comment. Really appreciate it! Up next: helping my mother in law redo her driveway for under 5000$ by myself.
Awesome!!! I’m learning from you young man! My husband and I will be doing our own soon! My favorite part of the video was the kids helping y’all. Too cute🤗 You’re teaching them right!!! Blessings to your family.
DUDE! You're a unicorn!!! That was better than a lot of pros I've seen. Very impressed! Can't wait to see the finished tour video!
Thank you, appreciate it! Thanks for the tour video idea, still have to finish a lot of smaller projects but who knows, maybe at the end of the summer. Cheers!
You doing it your self also ensured it got done right even if it took longer. Because no one is going to put the detail and effort your putting into it than you are. I’m learning that myself
Well said brother! Exactly that!
As a new contractor starting up in Canada (I saw that Tim Hortons!) specializing in hardscaping, you did very well for someone who has never done this kind of work before! When you found something wasn't working correctly, you seemed to find the correct solution (Scoring dry first before turning on water, realizing the packing down changed the height of your base, etc). Three tips that I would suggest: 1) Pack down your bedding sand. Even though its only 1" in depth, by packing it down, you get about 1/8" of compaction out of it which may show over time (not so much with the 80mm pavers though!). The downside of this method it makes screeding much more difficult. A work around for that problem is to actually have your sand 1/8" higher and when you're all done, do a compaction on the pavers with a rubber pad/carpet attached to your compactor to lower it that 1/8" to meet your grade. 2) I would have cut your concrete for your pool in a way where an exact multiplier of the width of your pavers would line up perfectly with the first post of your pergola. This means less cuts and straighter lines that line up with your pergola. 3) You had a stringline to run your first set of pavers horizontally which is awesome, but you could have followed up with a vertical stringline in the corner that starts with the perfect paver length again to line up with your pergola post and always start each row from that corner and you would have perfect lines and minimal cuts along the entire project to have perfect lines and not rely on your eyes. This also makes the "click and drop" method you learned (catchy btw!) start from the third paver you put down!
Again, very good job for a first crack at it! Don't see too many smaller TH-camrs create engaging and informative content as this and if you need any advice on this project or any future projects, I'll definitely give you my 2 cents (Maybe in exchange for a Tim Hortons ;)) Keep it up!
Wow. Thanks for the super informative comment! You’re the first to have noticed the tim hortons! It was a well deserved iced coffee that hot day haha! Kudos to you man, this is hard work! I didn’t get a pad with the compactor, but I want to do it. I was scared of running it on and getting some chips on the pavers. I actually had set up a perpendicular line initially, I forgot to explain that part… I put it, but I ended up starting dead center of the center post, then I realized I made a mistake lol. What would you recommend for the other side of the pool? Do I do the same, or do I use different screeding material or any recommendations. I’m gonna start it soon now that we’re getting better weather!
@@mateostabio Honestly just purchase a small piece of carpet (or even a small rug) from your local fabric/home decor store, cut a couple of holes and zap strap them to front and back frame of the compactor and you should be fine. On old rustic looking pavers (google Barkman Roman Pavers) its fine to do it without a carpet/mat as it just adds to the whole look, but in your case they are nicely finished and don't want to chip them or scratch the surface like you said. Do not do this on the side you have already poly sanded or for the rest of your project to keep it consistent. As for your materials, what you used will continue to work fine and again, keeps the project consistent. As for your starting point, your kind of hooped into what your doing since you already have pavers to go off of from what you have laid down to go along the edge of the pool (between the pool and your longest stretch of fence from the house).
I'll send you an email with a video link of me going over how I think you should approach the rest of your project!
@@mateostabioI ended up pounding mine with a rubber mallet as well as some wood to blunt it because I was too cheap to rent the plate compactor again.
For your bigger project, I would definitely not recommend going that route - way too much work.
The 6-yr-old anticipates needs and finds way to be helpful - pretty advanced skillset. Whatever path he chooses in life, he’s going to excel.
Thank you for the very nice comment :D Cheers!
My guy with the steel toe yezzys for the job lol, the pavers look amazing great job bro
You did a great job. Fair play to ya. Using a computer all day doesn't take the 'man' out of you!
Thanks again to you!
Web design to this? You're a wild man.
Always curious to learn new things!
Man, HELL of a job. If you ever have to do this again (which judging by the work, you probably wont), using a piece of paper/cardboard to trace those curves might be easier than trying to prop up the block (especially a 80+ pound one). The cardboard method saved me when I was tracing around a koi pond!
Edit: So got to the end and realized you're not done lol. So in case my "method" wasn't clear, lay a piece of cardboard (maybe even cut some to the same block dimension) where the block would go and then trace underneath using the pool lip and then cut that with a box knife/sissors and transfer it to the block. Saves moving that block a bunch!!
Additionally, if you don't mind spending like $20 us extra for a tool, after my koi project I got a cheap plastic contour gague from lowes. It's awesome, and WAY quicker than my above method lol.
THANK YOU! I will definitly try these methods, I'll look into it! I guess in my head right now, I don't see it work yet, but ill see how I can use the contour gague.
Thanks for the comment and glad you watched til the end. Cheers!
You nailed it brother. I love that your boys were there to help dad out and not afraid of a little hard work. They will grow up to be productive men one day. God bless you and your family. Thanks for the content. Just earned a new subscriber 👍🏻
Thank you so much. Yes they sure are really appreciate it. Cheers.
Perfection! 💯
Thanks! I appreciate it
Dude I dont tend to comment on youtube videos, but props to you on this job! Learning how to use tools or handle material you've never dealt with in your life is a hell of an experience. I did something similar to my backyard, but not to this level of detail and I'm extremely proud of it. I loved the "im a web designer" you must be a hell of a designer!
Thanks man, Really appreciate it. As you can see, I pay attention to the small detail!
So cute seeing your boys helping. ❤
Wow, it must have been a long summer, but Im sure your enjoying the time spent with the kids working on this. great job
Love to see the determination and hard work. Beautiful.
Nice work! I'm in the middle of my paver and wall project. Love the DIY spirit. Saves us a lot of money! So cute when your little one walked over the screeding job.
Haha yea lol made us all laugh
21:09 Cardboard makes an awesome and cheap and fast template for odd cuts!
Yes indeed, I did end up using this as others have proposed in a short video I released a few months back. My only problem with this is where do you find so much card board. each paver is 12"x24" and about 12 rounded cuts per corner of the pool.
@@mateostabio yeah they would be a lot of cardboard, you could probably reuse several pieces I suppose. Also that patio turned out amazing by the way!!
@@matt27usmc Thanks! Also, forgot to mention that I did actually create a jig, kindof like a scribe using two long screws and a piece of wood, exactly 12" away from each other. so this is the technique I used last week. I should have another video in a month or so talking about a few mistakes I made and a few tips and learnings from this project.
CAD - Cardboard Aided Design
Great job! Looks awesome!
You did an amazing job!
Great job 👍👍👍👍
Awesome work dude! me and the old lady installed a 1000 sq foot paver patio in our back yard last season with a nice retaining wall. It was way more work than we realized it would be and it took us from late march till august to get it finished. But its addicting, especially once you realize you can do it, and you see how cheaply you can do it yourself. We just installed the bar onto it last week using big 100 LB split faced blocks. A palatte and a half of stone cost like 450 bucks and the marble bar top was like 100. We picked up the palattes ourselves so no delivery cost and already owned the tools we needed from last season.
People don't realize how backbreaking stone work is unless they have done it themselves. But I have to say its the most satisfying feeling in the world, especially when you get to that screeding layer and you can begin to visualize the final result. Laying pavers is such a fun process as well.
By the way, how you did that project without kneepads is beyond me lol!
Yea crazy work. Hopefully this summer coming up I could also get the outdoor brick kitchen project done so I can post that video too. And hopefully do the new shed build and the driveway retaining walls lol. I Got a lot of projects but I wanna do them all myself. We’ll see how many I get done this summer. You should start filming and editing your work man! Thanks for the comment and for sharing, cheers 🍻
Truly Impressive, what a fantastic job. Big shout out from Ireland 🇮🇪
Love it. I have two boys 11 and 15. I always find diy projects to get them invloved.
Gotta respect it, beau travail💯
You're the Man dude!
Great work
And… this is your 10,000 year monument. 😊 also, happy St Patrick’s! ☘️
Seeing yr kids helping was such an amazing thing! I wish I will do the same in some years!
Thanks for watching!!
Dude put in the work. Love to see it buddy.
My compliments! You did an amazing job ! Thank you for your tutorial !
Thanks for watching! Cheers
What a fighter💪
dude this is so perfectly executed. i don't think someone else has done it that perfect to.this day 😊
Thanks for the compliment! Appreciate it! Check out my gazebo video!
Excellent video… dude’s a stud. Hope the family appreciates !!
Thank you!
Verry impressive !! Great job !!!
Thanks for watching!
Guaaaau que lindo que quedó!!! Ella al final somos todas jajajaj
Gracias!
Seriously love this video
Thanks!
I swear... I think all wives are issued a handbook on how to talk to their husbands 🤣🤣🤣
That little wheelbarrow had me dying lol. Bet they had a blast
Sure did! Thanks for watching!
Im going to attempt the same ... good video ...
You can do it!
Awsome video ! Really enjoy these videos. Keep up the good work ! I'm looking forward to see the end result.
Thanks good friend!
That neighbour is a keeper!
Bro you killed it. This was awesome to watch
Thanks!
Kudo's for a job well done! It takes a lot of guts to start and finish a project like this and work out the issues. You did well!
Thank you! And yes, was definitely a learning experience!
Thank you for an excellent video, damn inspiring to see you make magic happen with your own two hands! Makes me wanna get on one of the few projects I've been dragging my foot on!
You can do it! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the comment!
Nice job, mate. Very helpful. 🍻
Thanks bud! Cheers!
Yeah, I'd be spending the money with pros. Fantastic job, man! 👍🏻
Nice job. I think the geotextile fabric mainly keeps the base material from sinking into the substrate (and unevenly so in your case which would cause the problem).
When they use it for rock driveways, the biggest thing it helps with is just to prevent the rock from sinking into the clay or whatever the substrate is below that, causing you to have to add rock after so many years.
Yes, exactly. Just wanted to make sure people didn’t think it was just to prevent weeds from growing, in a lot of videos, I see that some DIY’s use weed barrier, which is a super thin fabric. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!
REALLY well produced. You deserve alot more subs!
Thanks, Hopefully I get there! Thanks for watching.
My jop iş turist but l lovewatching you you are the Best master
Wow, fantastic work and i'm well aware of how hard work laying pavers are. The only thing i would add, is that you need to smooth off the edges after a cut, especially the one's around the swimming pool pavers. Paver edges are super sharp and if by small chance, any of those pavers dipped on one side but rose on the other, even by a millimetre,, you don't want those sharp edges exposed.
That’s great advice, Thanks. I’ll definitely do that to the rest of it on the other side!
Huge thanks to your neighbor! Geesh I need a neighbor like that hah Great work on the Patio
Absolutely! My neighbour on the other side though, not so much hahaha. Thanks for watching!
@@mateostabio hah thankfully I got lucky good neighbors on both sides of me and in the cul de sac I’m in. After watching this video thought it seems this took a very long time and even with the help of the neighbor and all that equipment this was a huge undertaking. My back hurts watching you screet the dust and sand ect.
I’m contemplating a deck or paver patio and more and more I’m leaning towards a deck just because of the amount of work entailed
Haha For sure a deck project is simpler, a lot of this video was throughout the summer and fall of 2023. But I also had to build and finish the gazebo project and with a full time job, yeaa this took me a long time. Can’t wait to finish and get back into it in a few weeks. I also have 1100 sqft to do total and with many many cuts lol. If you just have a basic rectangle, say 300 ft2, you should be able to do that quick. Rental shops usually give good rates for weekend or weekly rentals.
Do you make reaction videos of videos you watch? Wanna react to my backyard and gazebo video? Lol 😂
Just noticed this new video! 🥳 My pergola almost done! Your video tutorial would be perfect for the floor!
My best wishes with your channel!
Thank you I want to see pictures or videos ! How’s the project coming along?!
Holy shit - as someone living in Montreal who did a similar (but much smaller scale) project last summer, huge props dude.
Wish I would have thought to look for used pavers - I think I paid almost 3k from techo block for around 400 square feet (so at the start of your video I thought you were full of it when you quoted your cost haha)
I ended up going with sand in my case (after a lot of research as well).
Kind of wish I had gone with stone dust in the end. Literally nowhere in the East end of Montreal can you buy sand for laying pavers. Definitely added to my cost as well as just headaches trying to source it.
@@MystMyth thanks for watching dude! Yea, I couldn’t believe the price of brand new pavers, I had to buy used… I’m glad I didn’t even look into ordering sand! Thanks for sharing
💪🏽💪🏽👍👍 looks good bro
Thanks!
pixel perfect web designer makes a pixel perfect back yard!
😉 you know it! Thanks for watching!
Great job. One tip for next time to protect your fingers wrap your fingers with duct tape. We did this when we laid a 545 Sq ft patio. It saved our fingers.
Thanks. I kinda got the technique a few rows into it! Thanks for sharing
Bro you're awesome 🎉🎉congratulations with all your hard work and big savings 🎉🎉market place my bargains free landscape stones and firewood 😂 I agreed City are money hungry gotta be smart ask many questions until they gave up 😅
Thanks for watching and the comment! Best of luck in your project
Well done! I've laid a lot of stone so I must compliment you on your approach and patience give you are a desk jockey and this is your first time laying stone. Those 80mm stones are definitely overkill and having to scrape old polymeric off of the face is not fun... great job... Cheers!
Thanks for watching and for the comment!
I wasn’t looking for 80mm stones but its what popped up and I got it in my budget. Hard to find on marketplace
J'ai adoré ton video.Je suis une vraie passionnée de l'aménagement paysager, la seule chose que j'aurais fait différemment est l'utilisation de 1/4 net( hpb en raison du climat nordique ) pour le lit de pose au lieu de la poussière de pierre. C'est ton choix personnel, que je respecte. Hâte à ton prochain vidéo! Bravo !
C’est vrm quelque chose que je ne pouvais pas me decider, je recevais vrm beaucoup de differente reponse de tout le monde. Jai finis par prendre l’option plus populaire de mes alentours. Mais merci! Pour la prochaine!
You stuck through it all and didn’t give up. Good job and congratulations. Looks really great.
P. S. You know how to manage a project now too!
Thanks for watching!
Awesome video man! Looking forward to seeing the next project. Maybe a putting green in the back yard?! Hahah Keep up the good work 💪
Thanks for watching bud!
Not bad for a newbie. There's and old saying work smarter not harder. An HD Bon paver mover 21-468 for 70$ would have made it a lot easier. I myself would have budgeted some day laborers. Your project turned out nice.
Insteresting tool. Didn’t know about this. How thick is the edges? Because the spacing between these pavers is very tight, like 1/16
I'm tired just watching the video :P Great job!
😂 Go grab yourself a beer! You’ve worked hard enough. Cheers!
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Mateo… nice job. I watched the pergola video last year. You impressed me then and continue. I couldn’t do what you’re doing… I’m enjoying a beer sitting on my ass on the sofa! Great work and nice job on the videos. Thanks
A nice cold beer on the couch sounds good to me! Thanks for watching!
Nice work. One thing that might have saved your back would have been using a dolly to move those 81 pound pavers around. Enjoyed your video. Nice seeing your helpers jumping in. Good for kids to be included in projects. You and your family will have years of memories made.
Thanks, appreciate it. Im actually looking into those gorilla carts for this summer!
@@mateostabio The gorilla carts work good too. I've found that what works best is get my grandson over and have him do the heavy work. lol. At 15 he's stronger than me. It's my back I have to be careful or I'll be in misery for a couple days.
Ur wife is gorg!!! Id be out there doin everything she wanted too lol. Respectfully! Beautiful fam
amazing job, I was thinking instead of cutting the pavers around the curved sidewalk, cut the curved sidewalk straight to fit a full paver... idk how it would look tho
Thanks! Yea, maybe could have been an option to cut off a few inches of the sidewalk. But not an option I dont think all the way around with the pool pipes and skimmer basket. Thanks for watching!
In PA we use leveling sand.
Thanks for sharing!
Awesome job, turned out great! Your pavers look pretty close together, did you find the polymeric sand still fit between them okay or do you think 1/8 inch spacers would’ve been better? I’m at the leveling/sloping part of my own project right now
Thanks! these pavers have a thin gap which is nice and the polymeric sand I got is good because its fine sand so it fits into the 1/8 gap. If you buy good quality pavers they should have an indent on the outside edges so give themselves the right gap, no need to add spacers. Keep up the hard work! You got this!
Thank you! We went the same route as you and got our pavers from fb marketplace, and they’re really nice but no indents on them so I think we’ll have to get some spacers just to make sure we don’t fit them too tight!
Awesome video - learning so much. I heard one of your sons calling you 'Abboo'. What language do you guys speak (other than english)? I used to call my father Abba and my son calls me that as well - derived from Arabic.
Thanks for a top video.
Thanks for the comments. not sure when he said that, but we speak spanish.
How are you handling drainage with all the new impermeable surfaces? It looks great but where I live I bet I'd need drainage improvements with this
The house has a french drain and the patio is slanted enough to let water run off on all 4 sides, not too worried about it. If I do get problems though, It’ll be another opportunity for a video!
very nice! I couldn't help but wonder.... if there are 10,000 of you, then you can probably build a pyramid... if you get enough stone. :)
Thanks for watching! Maybe who knows!
@@mateostabio well.. if you do, the video will probably get 100 million views! I only got 11 16x16 pavers last week to make a base for my new 12-foot cantilever umbrella... hauling them home from Home Depot already wore me out. I can't even imagine doing 1000 pavers! :)
Nice job! What’s the size of the boarder pavers you used? Thanks
Thanks! The border pavers were a little strange in size, I think they were 6”x12.5” or 13”. It was just a little too long to match with the other ones that were 12x24.
Thanks! I have the same 12x24 but I don’t know what order to use, I was thinking the same 12x24 but crossing the boarder. Great content!
9:47 little homie aint helping worthing a damn
I am interested in what materials were used in the construction of your gazebo/pergola roof. Hope you don't mind sharing with me.
Check out my gazebo build video! I show step by step!
Unrealistic pricing, and minimizing expenses plus including free or borrowed machinery is nuts😂 glad you got it done tho! Good luck after your next rainy season!👍🏽
Thanks for watching! These are the real numbers. Might seem unrealistic, but if I was able to do it, so will many others. Cheers 🍻
god dam you got lucky on the paver deal, Im north shore and all I see for Blu
Grande lisse are 300 square feet for 1400$
I see that one too haha. You gotta keep looking, and the one you wanna get is from the paver installers that remove them. They post it cheap and its gone 1 or 2 days later. You just gotta check often and be quick you can also go in person and low ball, No one is gonna pay close to full price to remove them themselves. They will only sell if they sell at 1 or 2 bucks a square foot. Best of luck!
I did check some out before pulling the trigger on the deal in Laval. I found deals in TMR, DDO, Laval, lasalle, mont st-hilaire. What ever you do, don’t transport yourself. You call paver companies, they have a truck that do transport too. You just gotta have em ready on pallets and wrapped. Delivery is cheap like 350$, instead of you traveling and doing one pallet by hand into a pickup truck manually. Doesn’t make sense. Pay the truck
Is there a good alternative for using sprayfrom? I don't like spraying something in my yard that will be there for millions of years.
Yea, I saw some people on TH-cam push and compress crushed stone under the sidewalk.
One thing I thought about that I almost did is actually mixing concrete and keeping it thick not wet, and pushing it in until you cant push it anymore. Could work I think!
Neighbor is a LEGEND
Yes he is!
Impressive work. I was just worried you didnt use a mask and gloves the whole time 😢
What do you do if you have a mole problem? They are digging tunnels under my pavers and the pavers are shifting
Thats a real bummer. I have no idea. I would assume you’d have to dig much deeper and put way more gravel then a normal install. I would assume they don’t dig into gravel… then I would put multiple layers of geotextile to hold it all up in case they dig under that. I would call companies and get some quotes and ask a lot of questions. Best of luck on that!
apply a piece of towel , wet it with ammonia and Clorox and cover the hole and use a mask
great job, where a mask bro, that Silica dust is no good when cutting
Amazing job and even more special for me is that you got help from this two little dudes, very nice 👍👍
Thanks for watching and for the comment! 🍻
Hmm nice but I won’t trade it for stone dusting my lung..
no cement?
I will be trying the cement edge on the other side!
Mate I’m a web designer… will you do my website for me 😂😂 amazing and somewhat inspiring…..
Cheers brother!
Tu habite à Montréal et tu pense que 4po de gravier compacter avec une plaque de 150lbs sera suffisant a affronter nos hivers.... 2-3 hivers max tout sera croche. Les pro chargent 25k mais creusent 1pied de gravier ta job est incomparable. T'as fait crissement de job manuelle et je te lève mon chapeau mais attend toi a un bordel dans 2-3 hiver
P-e pour un driveway. Jai parler a plusieurs compagnies et aucune ma dit plus que 6”. Moi en tout cas jen ai beaucoup plus car jai lever le trottoir aussi de 3-4”. Mais on vera bien avec le temps! Sa fera un bon video en 2-3 ans. Thanks for watching!
Nobody wants a dead impaled kit that tripped. Build some diy rebar caps...
The spray foam is really pointless as in a year or two you’ll be right back where you started with sagging concrete as spray foam breaks down from critters had it happen to me ended up just replacing the concrete
I sure hope not! The big tanks I used is really solid foam and did not move. Its been a year. The other half I used the little foam cans and it went down half an inch already. I think ill be reinforcing that side before doing the pavers next week
Thanks for sharing this!
Always wear breathing protection when cutting stone, cement based materials.. Not the best for your lungs to breath in all this air sprayed material.
Yea. Thanks. I tried holding my breath but still best would be to wear the proper mask. I just recently learned about Silicosis.
27k is cheap
Maybe for some people but not for everyone. then add a 15% tax on top of that, and then add extras like raising the concrete sidewalk. But indeed, its a lot of work
EVER HEAR OF WORK GLOVES??😂 grab the stones on the side so u don't pinch ur fingers...polymeric sand is junk...EASY JOINT is by far the best
Yes. They would get soaked when I made cuts, sometimes I took them off. But yea, I learned about safety a little late in the project... Thank you for the comment.
I just looked into EasyJoint, they don’t recommend it for smaller gaps then 1/4”. But thanks for the comment!
@@mateostabio but u can still use it ...the water carries the material into every crevace...much better than sand can get in...then the water never gets into the sand enough & it WILL flake out at some point
Beautiful, but please bro. Wear a mask when cutting the concrete. Silicosis is a very deadly disease
Thank you for letting me know about Silicosis, I knew inhaling silika was dangerous, I tried not breathing while cutting dry, but after reading about silicosis, that’s scary stuff. Thanks for sharing