Yours is the best vid of how to lay the older setts. I salvaged piles of them from the old street car tracks in Toronto and need a driveway. Let me know when youre in town.
I have to admit I dont get to Toronto very often....or at all, even! So far, my world travels in pursuit of paving have not brought me to Canada, but maybe next year????
Wish you could show how you finished the concrete looking joints on the finished driveway. Thanks for great video I need to do a 1000 foot road that can take a heavy dump truck over it like to know if the bedding mix has cement in it?👏.
+Anthony Hargis The bedding is what we call a semi-dry. There's just enough moisture in the bed mix to initiate hardening and achieve a suitable end strength, but not so much that it's messy or causes the setts to 'float'. More about this on my website.....
Thanks for your video after 6 years hope you are still going strong.If you were in COSTA RICA I WOULD BEG YOU TO COME TO WORK. ARE YOU STILL OUT THERE WORKING EVERY DAY?
+Tony McCormack I'm a fifth generation mason here in the States. The methods are similar to how we do it. Thanks for the info, I'll look for the videos.
you've put an amazing amount of work into the website, and it's full of very clear information that even i can understand, by and large, so well done on that. i seem to get the idea though that if i wanted to put down a light/med-duty driveway (recycling the riverstone cobbles that i dug out from the earth floor in the house) i would be hard put to do so without concrete. is that right? i really liked the idea of the cobble path being water permeable to avoid water buildup around the house...
Moss grows on certain types of stone and certain types of jointing, but not all. If it's moss you want, then you need a porous stone, such as sandstone, and a porous jointing medium, such as sand/cement mortar.
A true craftsman's setting hammer would be a large rounded wooden mallet not the hammer used for shaping. Being able to make something and being able to make something of exquisite form are totally different.
Each craftsman finds their own working method and as long as the work is good, no-one has a right to say that such a method of working is wrong. I work differently to the lads in the video; my father worked differently to me; we all laid great sett pavements. The destination is the same but each of us finds our own way of getting there.
I think it's fantastic that your family is passing a trade down... Seriously. That being said, did any of you mar your materials finished product surface with a sledge hammer?
Yours is the best vid of how to lay the older setts. I salvaged piles of them from the old street car tracks in Toronto and need a driveway. Let me know when youre in town.
I have to admit I dont get to Toronto very often....or at all, even! So far, my world travels in pursuit of paving have not brought me to Canada, but maybe next year????
Rip our gaffa Tony Mc
We’ll all learn from your knowledge
Great job !!! A VERY big bravo to you gentlemen .
No: the setts are laid onto a bed of 4:1mortar or fine concrete. See the pavingexpert website for detailed laying specification
Awesome work!
what is best used to fill in the joints? I'm assyuming just whiping in some sand is not enough for these stones?
Wish you could show how you finished the concrete looking joints on the finished driveway. Thanks for great video I need to do a 1000 foot road that can take a heavy dump truck over it like to know if the bedding mix has cement in it?👏.
+Leo Ruocco The bed was placed dry, but will set when water is added, probably when they laid the grout in the joints.
+Anthony Hargis The bedding is what we call a semi-dry. There's just enough moisture in the bed mix to initiate hardening and achieve a suitable end strength, but not so much that it's messy or causes the setts to 'float'. More about this on my website.....
There are various methods used to joint sett paving. See my website - pavingexpert - for fuller details on the moire popular options
thanks great stuff...
Thanks for your video after 6 years hope you are still going strong.If you were in COSTA RICA I WOULD BEG YOU TO COME TO WORK. ARE YOU STILL OUT THERE WORKING EVERY DAY?
+Leo Ruocco Nope - I was injured some years ago, so now I just talk, train and write about paving and streetmasonry
Wonder if to use semidry mortar like here or sand, for a patio with flattish irregular stone.
Always lay that type of stone paving on a mortar bed in prefence to loose, unbound sand.
Would have been interesting to see how they set their grout.
+Anthony Hargis Jointing is covered in several other videos I've posted
+Tony McCormack I'm a fifth generation mason here in the States. The methods are similar to how we do it. Thanks for the info, I'll look for the videos.
Anthony is there cement is the dry bed mix?
Yes - see my website. it'll be a 4:1 mix of sharp sand with OPC
great stuff, thanks a lot!
Just beautiful and a wonderful completion of a fantastic job.
back breaking donkey work
Neil Riordan That’s a LOT of thinking time, as well. Which is worse?
i was cringing waiting foe stones to break with that hammer, ended up looking great
you've put an amazing amount of work into the website, and it's full of very clear information that even i can understand, by and large, so well done on that.
i seem to get the idea though that if i wanted to put down a light/med-duty driveway (recycling the riverstone cobbles that i dug out from the earth floor in the house) i would be hard put to do so without concrete. is that right? i really liked the idea of the cobble path being water permeable to avoid water buildup around the house...
the final pavement is fantastic. i'm wondering though what goes under it all? you aren't just laying onto beaten earth surely?
surely the lump hammer leaves marks.. even on granite.. they are clearly visible.. wouldn't a heavy rubber mallet be better
No
Was hoping that it might show the contractors preferred jointing method. Dry mix river sand and cement?
THANK YOU!!!
Does moss grow in between naturally or is that another project?
Moss grows on certain types of stone and certain types of jointing, but not all. If it's moss you want, then you need a porous stone, such as sandstone, and a porous jointing medium, such as sand/cement mortar.
Tony McCormack Thank you, again! Glad I found your channel. I’m even jamming to the music.
A true craftsman's setting hammer would be a large rounded wooden mallet not the hammer used for shaping. Being able to make something and being able to make something of exquisite form are totally different.
Each craftsman finds their own working method and as long as the work is good, no-one has a right to say that such a method of working is wrong. I work differently to the lads in the video; my father worked differently to me; we all laid great sett pavements.
The destination is the same but each of us finds our own way of getting there.
I think it's fantastic that your family is passing a trade down... Seriously.
That being said, did any of you mar your materials finished product surface with a sledge hammer?
I don't know anyone, ever, use a sledgehammer to lay setts....or any other form of paving!
Quality, not too shabby for an operative.
I can absolutely guarantee you would not refer to him as an "operative" to his face!
Tony McCormack I’m being sarcastic - try watching your own video and reading the text that has been used.
@@TonyMcCormack I think an apology is due.
@@123prestolee Thanks, but I don't need one.
@@TonyMcCormack That’s very sad - hopefully that fella watches your video (@ 3:30), then decides to teach you all about respect for others.
id say.......fkn appalling!