How To Install Paver Brick Driveway Like Pros w/Time Lapse
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- We show you how to install a paver brick driveway from demolition of the old brick driveway to the completion and sealing of the new driveway, with time-lapse video as well. We cover all the important parts of your DIY driveway installation, starting with marking the utility lines, moving sprinkler pipes, and demolishing the old oil-stained paver driveway.
We also cover compacting the sub-base sand and compacting it before the first inspection and how to recover from city inspection failure before installing pavers. This DIY video also shows you how to cut the grass for the new curved sidewalk, and adding paver brick leveling sand.
We then show you how to snap the chalk lines for the diagonal brick paver setting, and show the contractor laying down the first row of driveway bricks, and cutting the channels on the perimeter for the edge paver bricks. We'll show cutting of perimeter channels, and installing the perimeter bricks for your DIY driveway.
Finally, we show you the application of sand to fill in the paver brick gaps, then the power washing and sealing of the paver brick driveway using a water-based sealer. Now you know how to install pavers on your driveway!
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⏱ Table of Contents Paver Brick Driveway Project (Click on timestamps jump to chapter) ⏱
0:00 Introduction and scope of project paver brick driveway install
0:45 811 Call Before You Dig/Marking utility locations
1:52 Moving sprinkler pipes to fit new wider paver driveway
2:10 Demolition of the old paver brick driveway
3:47 Tamping and compacting sub-base sand layer
5:00 Failed city inspection, how to recover driveway project
5:55 Cutting out grass curved sidewalk, adding paver brick leveling sand
7:28 Snapping chalk lines for 45-degree paver brick installation
7:52 1st paver brick and course set on the driveway into leveling sand
8:50 Perfect choreography placing bricks non-stop across driveway field
11:55 Snapping chalk lines for perimeter brick cuts
13:12 Pavers installation, setting of perimeter paver bricks onto the driveway
14:47 Making difficult cuts for 45-degree brick pavers
16:10 Sidewalk brick pavers leading to the front door set into the sand
17:15 Chalk lines and cutting bricks for sidewalk perimeter pavers
18:00 Concrete mortar edge restraint to secure perimeter paver bricks
18:20 Adding Polymeric Sand to seal/fill paver brick gaps
20:00 Rinsing residual sand off paver brick driveway
20:35 Repairing broken paver bricks on driveway
21:20 Power washing and sealing paver brick driveway
23:20 Overview of completed brick driveway construction project
24:37 $1 million commercial paver brick parking lot project Boca Raton, FL
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YOU SHOULD STOP COPYING OTHER PEOPLE'S CONTENT AND USING IT UNDER"FAIR USE" THIS VIDEO IS NOT YOUR OWN
You should stop trolling. Disclose you are really Kai's minion in disguise. This is not copying anybody's video this was on my own property I shot my own video, nowhere did I mention fair use, as it is my own video for my own use. You're just an immature ignorant person along with Kai, who trolls other channels with this nonsense. I actually feel sorry for the pathetic joke of a life you both must lead that you feel the need to leave false testimony comments like this on everybody's videos with all capital letters. What Toxic Teds you are. In the wake of that condo collapse, you have trolled every video on it with hate, and false testimony, with no regard for the dead, just to amuse yourselves like little school girls. Shame on you. I know you think you are funny, ha ha, but In Proverbs 6:17-19, God gives us a list of seven things that are an abomination to Him. “Haughty eyes, a lying tongue..." and one day he'll be going ha ha to you.
@@jeffostroff Beautiful reply. Guess he is blind as well.
@@jeffostroff get on a diet and do cardio so you can run out of a driveway collapse
@@olegkosygin2993 I am on a seafood diet I see food I eat it.
@@jeffostroff 🤣🤣🤣
The driveway looks pretty amazing. I can see why people stop to ask about it. When I was a younger man and my back had less to say, I laid my fair share of patios and walkways, but nothing like this. Visually stunning.
amazing to watch them too
Interesting top comment. Speaking about the patio. Whoever did it prior, did an EXCELLENT job. After 27 years it held up exceptionally well. New pavers look good too.
This new design is just what our house needed
Just like brick driveways, I'm not a fan of paver driveways. Maybe because those I have had to suffer over the years weren't installed properly or maintained, IDK, but I have to say this is the prettiest paver driveway I think I have ever seen. Love the colors and pattern. It really stands out and goes well with the home.
thanks! IT's great driving home to this.
Just gotta say, WOW. And thanks. Widening my existing concrete driveway using brick, to add enough surface to park another car. Your vid makes the whole process clear and diy-able.
Splendid ! Many thanks for all the trouble you have taken with describing all the steps and the time stamps !
Glad you liked it Robert!
Jeff, your work is simply unbelievable. I mean, how can one man literally pave himself up to his knees into the middle of a driveway, and STILL finish the paving job??? Well Jeffrey, you can count me in as a new subscriber, and I’ll be following your new, ill-fated career as a Driveway Speedbump...
Ha! yes sir, see you at the premier 4 pm
My daughter and son-in-law just did a new patio in pavers. My hubby and I helped haul 7 pallets of paver and one of sand from the driveway to the back yard. It sure is nice!
They had it excavated, gravel compacted on the dirt with a weed barrier underneath. The sand was not leveled by eye but with 1” pipe laid to screed over. Interesting this was not so detailed sand leveling - must be the experience showing.
Wow that is a lot of work!
Seems like a job that is really easy on the back.
It also looks like these workers have never done this before.
That's why I farmed this one out. Just cleaning up afterwards broke my back I was tired vacuuming excess sand from the lawn
@@jeffostroff I was joking, by the who. lol
Jeff, that looks amazing!! Think I need this for my backyard patio!!
It's awesome, we love driving home now
Looks fabulous, Jeff. A+++ Thanks for showing us how it was done.
Glad you enjoyed it john!
Great looking driveway and walk way!!! Hope it lasts a very long time!! Great video as always!!! Hope you and yours are safe and well!!!
thanks Wiliam
wow.these guys really know what they are doing! looks great.
It was cool filming them
That looks awesome, Jeff! Congrats on the new driveway 👍
thank you so much!
Hey Jeff - The new driveway looks amazing - even better in 4K on TH-cam!
thanks, we are still pinching ourselves!
That's a beautiful driveway.
Wow Jeff, that driveway looks awesome. Those guys really do great work
Yes they do, thanks for checking it out Mike
Wow, what a beautiful job. You were fortunate to find such a great contractor. A big 👍. Thanks for the video.
With so many lazy, scammy, druggie, shady, unprofessional, understaffed, under-supplied, under-prepared, under quoting and asking for more, and generally just bad... It is good to see a plan come together in the end with a professional crew and a professional job. It’s beautiful.
Thanks 👍
These were one of only 2 driveway contractors wo even returned my calls
@@jeffostroff I’m in an area where it’s hard to get good help. You are blessed that it turned out quite nice.
Jeff, what area are you in? Any any tips on negotiating with a driveway company prior to signing a contract. Thanks!
Gotta say that the old driveway is actually in pretty good shape (minus the oil stains) and looks like, after 28 years, it held up well. It's a shame to have to replace because of oil stains, but I get it. I would have done the same. To bad you had an incompetent inspector.
Yes the bricks of the old driveway were physically in good condition. The perimeters were starting to sink into the edge of the driveway, and the oil stains no matter what we tried and no matter what companies we've brought in over the years with acid wash and everything else, nobody was able to get rid of the oil stains. Tried every remedy people suggested over the years. The homeowners association was really getting on me about the driveway stains and I had no other option but to replace the driveway. But I did get 27 good years out of it.
Hi Jeff 🙋🏽. I'M relatively new to your channel. I just wanted to say, you and your guys did an amazing beautiful job. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏽👌🏾💞❤️💞.
Welcome to the channel Carole and thanks!
Very cool Jeff thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
HONESTLY THE DRIVE WAY WAS PERFECT BEFORE YOU COULD HAVE JUST FLIPPED THE PAVERS THAT HAD OIL AND THE HOME OWNER COULD HAVE SAVED THOUSANDS
Nice....I am planning to do something the same but a different style. I am glad I came across this video first that came up and mr.jeff explains on every details. Driveway came out really nice and beautiful. I live in south san francisco california and the weather is great. Might need few things to protect the driveway surfaces and other things might not. This is exactly what I was looking for and been thinking about changing driveway. To redo the original driveway with concrete is not ideal when later in time will crack and split. Nice driveway to your home and my home is exactly like yours.
Awesome Jose I am glad you liked the video
Pretty interesting. I found you when you were doing videos of the Miami collapse. I don’t know why I want to watch a driveway video, although my driveway is horrendous. Maybe I’ll be inspired to fix it. Anyway, you make it interesting. Thx.
worth every penny!
it looks very nice and clean.
thanks!
Me and my dad started out working in Idaho and it made us take extra step when laying pavers, we would always lay them on top of 2 to 3 inches of cement that had rebar inside and never had any issues in many years it seems like overkill but I've continued to use similar methods in California where we are now, I don't like avoidable call backs by cheeping out on labor or materials.
Good idea!
Looks Fantastic !!
Thanks LITO!
It’s beautiful!
thanks Krystal!
Beautiful job
Thank you! 😊
It’s so educational thank you
Glad to help Dalia
*Appear's to have the feel of a Louis Vuitton pattern at a quick glance classy great choice! **23:21*
yes, that is a god point!
the classical motif matches the house perfectly
make sit look wealthy
Very nice thanks for sharing.
The edge mortar.. How does the grass grow on it if the mortar is all the way to the top ( what i could see) of the brick.
Love the pattern. I am collecting Augusta and chicago bricks for a project.
The grass and dirt eventually creep up tot he edge of the brick. I have already edged it 3 times since then, so grass is right up tot he bricks now.
Also inspectors can make or break you, I've seen 2 show up on one of my jobs and get into a full blown argument over their opinion, and on other projects they've been super helpful and very easy to work with, memorize the good ones so you know when you see them if your screwed or not.
This inspector cost us 5 freaking days! He shows up on Thursday, leaves the note. Not in on Friday, they call Monday 7AM to get on the inspection docket for the day, and he shows up the end of the day Tuesday. My blood was boilng.
@@jeffostroff Like many petty bureaucrats, they can be ate up with their power real or imagined.
Great job!
These guys were awesome
Wow, thanks for the content.
Glad you liked it Scott!
Very nice!!! I did a repair job on a paver driveway, a gopher Hwy w/a branched run off to one side. My knees haven't forgiven me yet. I solved the woman's gopher problem with a Castor Bean based repellant. Yes, you can herd them in the direction you'd prefer them to go... HOWDY NEIGHBOR!! XD XD XD
gopher problem? Just like Caddy shack!
That old driveway looked good..... It just required a degrease and to reset the borders
No decreased worked even acid wash did not work
@@jeffostroff that's a pity... That old driveway is much better than mine..... But the new one was the dogs bollocks!!
Its beautiful.
great video.
thanks Raymond
1st comment, Nice work Jeff, one of the hardest working people on TH-cam! Keep up the good work and we will keep watching!🧐🧐🤓🤓🥳🥳
I appreciate that!
Gorgeous as it is, kudos to your HOA for allowing you to do something unique. I'm afraid our HOA would have rejected the plan because it was different from every other driveway, and would have "spoiled" the homogeneity.
On another note, it would be great if you showed the budget for the job, and the final cost against the budget. Also, maybe a little about how long it took from signing the contract to gathering materials and scheduling a crew. I know your mileage may vary based on location, timing, etc. But cost and schedule play an important role in dreaming. Sadly, my budget would have seen me turning over the oil stained pavers and maybe putting a little cement around the edges.
Great vid!
The total cost of the driveway install was $4800. After that came an additional $700 for polymeric sand, and for the initial sealing of the driveway
@@jeffostroff is that just material? Or labor included?
@RIZZOTTO HI Jeff , I'm curious as to how many sq ft thus was total? Thanks in advance , looks great
wow look great and thanks for the video. was wondering what size the large brown pavers and small white ones?
thank again !!
large are 12x12, medium are 4x8, small are 4x4
Hello Jeff, looks great
Hey, thanks david!
yes it is nice and great
This is done so beautifully, it almost makes me think I could do it myself.💪🏾🥰🥰
It took three guys that do this for a living an entire day to get this right plus the day before there was a lot of prep work as well that's why I left it to the pros
The old is also looking amazing to me
The driveway looks great and the video was excellent. A couple of questions. I have found that using small area pavers can cause eventual uneveness when something sits on the corner of one of the small pavers. Not a tire, but something smaller that can apply pressure in a small area. Even though the sand is compacted, it can still give. Have you expereinced any unevenness? How did they finish out the perimeter. I saw the mortar/cement for the soldier bricks. It did not look like there was much room left for topsoil and sod though.
yes, all edges had just enough mortar to hold it in place, then grass is brought up on top of it. A few of the pavers have developed a bit of lippage between pavers, and no sand is perfect, and can still shift a bit underneath from rains
I’ve never seen anyone compact the sand before, but it looks like a good strategy.
I believe it is required by code
it is necessary, but they did it completely wrong... they cracked all those bricks with the compactor, that's not how you do it
@@notimportant3686 I'm not sure what you're talking about they do not crack any birds with a compactor.
Mesmerizing.
thansk!
HI Jeff, I need to put a sealer for my pool deck. Would you be able to share the information of the company that you use put the sealer for your driveway? Thanks in advance.
Creative camera work there buddy!
Glad you noticed that beth! Thanks!
The drive way looks amazing. Do you have the links for the paver bricks you used, both bigger and the smaller one? Thank you for sharing this video.
No I chose them out of a catalog
@@jeffostroff Can you please share the shop info or catalog details where you got it from ? i am looking to do my driveway in the same way. Thank You.
What was your per square foot cost? Great video!
So you didn't have to wait 60-90 days to let the pavers set before sealing them? And did they treat your pavers for efflorescence?
Right these are concrete pavers not standard brick pavers, so the concrete can be sealed right away, whereas the standard bricks you do have to wait a couple of months for the efflorescence
Hey Jeff - a question. I will be doing a small patio on the back of my condo. It will be 2- 20” pavers wide and about 20-20” pavers long. Do you think I need to have the vibration machine for this small of a job? I do think that the polymer sand will be a good choice, but not sure I want to invest in the vibration machine for such a small job. If there something else I could do instead to get it all in the cracks? Again, it will be 20X20s so not nearly as many cracks to fill as you did. BTW, beautiful new driveway!
You need to find some way to vibrate it, you buy a tamper from home depot, $30 and but a board down and down and tamp the board to cause vibration. Are yo on the first floor? not a good idea to add pavers or tile to upper floor patios
@@jeffostroff ok I can do that. My dad has a tamper so I can borrow his (I was going to use it anyway to tamp down the sand before laying the pavers). And yes, this will be on the ground not in a balcony. Thanks!
Is there any reason they don’t use a hose to mist and catch the paver dust from the air when cutting it?
like a wet saw. I don't know, concrete cutting guys have always done it this way
*Great Video Jeff, do you have any recommendations on who can do this in Atlanta?*
I’m in Birmingham, I could it. One thing though, no way this job costs $5500 like OP said. Depending on many factors, this is 10-15k minimum job. I think the people who did his driveway undercharged, unless they spend $2000 in total for material and labor. If you already got it done, care to share the ballpark of what it cost you?
What’s best between pavers and concrete on a driveway that goes a little down hill
This is SUCH a Florida driveway...I love it!
Jeff, out of curiosity, is the sealer just for parking cars on it? If it was for the backyard, I assume it wouldn't be necessary.
The sealer protects the surface against stains from oil drips, brake fluids, other liquids, fruits, etc. I always seal all my bricks even the back patio
More like such a typical HOA BS waste of money "ugh, your driveway has OIL on it! You must replace the driveway". That'd be the day! If there's an HOA, just say "NO WAY". NEVER buy a house in an HOA if you like simplicity and quietness in your life. HOAs are nothing but a PIA
@@gorak9000 They did not force me to install a new driveway they simply said clean off the oil stick ass. But we could not get them to come off and I wanted a new driveway for a number of years anyway so I replaced it.
gorgeous
glad you liked it Mary
Looks great! No gravel is needed under the sand?
There was already gravel there from the previous paper break driveway that we had installed prior to this one
I am a paver installer, i do it different , but well what matters is the final product and looks good to me
Very cool driveway and walkway. These guys really knew what they were doing. I was a little uneasy when their hands got so close to the saw blade. 😣
That one seen the blade was spinning an inch from his toe!
@@jeffostroff Once, I was doing a big landscape job next-door to a house where a man was doing a patio and fire pit decorative stone job. Beautiful work! However, he used no safety glasses with his saw and he worked in flip-flops. I complimented him on his work but told him I was frightened for his safety. He said he had been doing it this way for 10 years with no problem. I never saw him again, but I wondered if his career ended after 1 or 2 more years.
Did you ask where those guys where from? BADASS CREW no talking just moving. That is a money making crew right there.
Ii think the head guy on the crew placing most of the pavers was Russian
Beautiful job on the drive way, what are they charging in South Florida a sq Foot to do the job?
This was $4800 for the driveway install, then $700 for the polymeric sand and sealing days later
@@jeffostroff That sounds like a good price. How big was the driveway? I've been adding pavers the last two years, contracted.
awesome
thanks Mike!
The driveway looks great. The installers did great work. One thing that is concerning is that you should never dry cut. A saw that distributes water to the blade should be used, or someone should be pouring water to the pavers that are being cut to greatly reduce the silica dust. I didn't see anyone using PPE when pavers were being cut so everyone, including Jeff, was breathing silica dust. I wonder how the installers' lungs will work in the future. I hope that someone makes them aware of the damage they are causing and do the proper steps to be safer.
I agree. I stayed away from the cloud of dust when they cut.
What sand (sand grade?) is it that your packing before the bricks?
Is it a certain type of sand/ ground? Any help will be greatly appreciated
They had a dump truck just dump a huge pile on the yard so not sure what that was, however they did have several bags that they brought with them the day they installed the bricks that said place sand and here's the exact bag from Home Depot www.homedepot.com/p/SAKRETE-50-lb-Play-Sand-40100301/202007298
Nice
thanks mark!
Jeff, nice work. Can you provide the manufactures name and product numbers for the two pavers? I cannot find them.
water must be used at all times when sawing
There are saws and blades that can be used either wet or dry
I stopped using water years ago. Got tired of the mess it makes and the residue it leaves on the pavers requiring the extra step of washing it off. That being said you're comment is a good one for most diy'ers in that they probably won't take the proper health and safety precautions when dry cutting.
Dang we just realized you’d just put up a new Very educational and easy to understand video.
And you did a great job spending the time to actually edit.
🤣🤣🤣 guess you can’t troll a troll. Karma
they still try anyway and face plant on the dismount
This is all great...unless of course, you live in a State like our WISCONSIN and have to run a snow blower or plow over it during our 4 months of snow each season!
Would not do a snow plow on this
You’d have to have a rubber blade. I used to plow brick drives all the time. Though, rubber blades don’t do as good of a job.
Its 2 yrs since this video, but i have a question if anyone can answer. Why wasn't gravel used as part of the foundation? Thanks.
Completed Driveway looks beautiful, but I thought that was the point of having pavers…? If you have broken or stained pavers you can just replace those particular pavers and not have to interrupt or replace your whole project!?
Majority of your old driveway was still in great shape; I hope you gave those pavers to a place like ‘ReStore- Habitat for Humanity’.
Thanks for sharing all the steps and beautiful driveway and walkway.
I stopped them from carting off more bricks, and posted them on craigslist for free. Guy showed up in 30 minutes with his pickup and tool the rest away to re-use. You can insert new bricks if you have them, these are 27 years old. I wanted a change and these newer bricks with the small diamonds were just the pavers to do this job.
@@jeffostroff plus they would be hard to match color and style!
Good thing that you guys got that roach! LOL
he was tressroaching
I'm planning on changing my driveway myself. I have not experienced doing it but it's my house so I can take the risk. The question is what's the deal with those inspectors? Do I need any permission to fix my own driveway?
I did a sidewalk myself all by hand. It turned out good but man I couldn't believe how much work it was.
Your driveway looks great. Must have cost a lot especially with that curve. $15k?
Nope! Only $4800 plus another $700 for the polymeric sand and sealant
@@jeffostroff Wow that's a great!
@@jeffostroff did one crew/company do the job or separate crews/company? It must also help that you work in the trades so you know more than the regular DIY.
Enjoyed the video, but would hate to think how much something like this costs
This was $4800 for the driveway install, then $700 for the polymeric sand and sealing days later
I had the same old paver driveway on my house when I lived in Coconut Creek. I'm guessing the builder of your house was Lennar?
No we had a now defunct company, Landstar Homes, developed a lot of Newer Margate
Hi my friend how much cost per sf to do a driveway in your area i live in Orlando fla,,,by the way nice video
They charged $4700 to do the driveway
I'm surprised the pattern didn't violate HOA something. Even with that sealer 20:54 still think you might need that tool if there's ever another oil spill.
I sent the HOA photos of tiles and drawings and they approved. The sealant is supposed to be resistant to oil spills, so hopefully we don't have to test that.
Give it a year or 2, the HOA will find something to complain about. As I say, 'If there's an HOA, just say "NO WAY"' - NEVER buy a house in an HOA unless you like being pestered continually about the stupidest crap.
can any of that old brick be reused?
It could be, I put a craigslist curb alert out and one guy in a pickup showed up and took some, but the contractors really want to remove with bobcat, get it out of the way, and dump truck removes it
Should be a concrete base?
They always use a bed of sand
Do you know how deep the power lines are? Thank you.
When I look at the meter Box they appear to be about 12" or so below the surface I don't know if that's the way it is across the yard or not
@@jeffostroff Thank you very much for your response. I appreciate it.
How much would this cost? Labor and materials. What was the total work time (how many days?)
This total job was about $6000. The 1st day The demolition crew came and took them about 2 hours with a Bobcat to pull up all of the old driveway bricks and haul them away then they put down sand on the driveway and tamped it down. Then on the 2nd day they came and put more sand and tampt it down again After starting about 7 AM, they finished by 3:30 PM
@@jeffostroff thank you!
Nice Job Groovy Baby 10-4
Looks great, who was the contractor?
Crossroads Paving
How much does something like this cost? Just need an idea without calling someone out for estimate
This was $5800 for the driveway
Oddly calming music
Looks good. Curious about the shirt.
Billy Joel & Elton John world tour t-shirt form summer 1994 concert tour
Pavers can be flipped if stained
Yes some can but not beveled edges, as they are not beveled on both sides of the brick
Did they charge extra for killing the roach? You are funny. I love your videos.
Roach Disposal Fee, plus State of Florida Roach Disposal Tax, LOL
Oh man, this is cold XD
anyone feel a draft?
@@jeffostroff I feel the shade your throwing 🤣🤣
How much does it cost for one of of those demolition driveways?
$5800 including the demolition of the old brick driveway and installing the new one
I've heard that using play sand is bad for getting ants. Is that true?
Answer wi'll go anywhere Dirt or sand
Could you show this driveway after 1 year now?
Yes it still looks exactly the same I was actually going to show a few photos of an online community tab page this weekend
How much something like this would cost...pretty much the same size driveway?
This was $5800
@@jeffostroff labor + materials...or just labor?
It was informative, thx
Glad to help Randal
15:51 BRO !!!! WATCH OUT BEHIND YOU !!!
By the time you read this you should look like a peg leg pirate🤣
these guys made me cringe they were so dangerous.
Where are you guys located?
Thanks
Ft. Lauderdale