Re-leveling and weeding our patio
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2022
- Using my vacuum patio stone lifter contraption to lift all the patio stones, re-level the sand and gravel, take out weeds and add additional barrier to weeds, then new sand in the cracks. Hopefully this will stay weed free without pesticides for a few years.
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I like how Matthias mentioned how he took his time and at one point he said he would continue tomorrow. It shows he's genuine and it breaks the illusion a lot of handymen on social media create where people are under the impression that they bang out a project in one day.
É verdade.
I was wondering if you were gonna do it. I copied yours pretty much exactly 1:1 and it's freaking brilliant. I relined against water infiltrations in two days, it was a breeze.
His is a copy of other similar devices
This guy is the definition of work smarter not harder
I like how this guy always do things his very own way
He copied this. There have been similar devices on the market for a very long time
@@rd-ch1on are you pointing the fact that m wandell is not the inventor of vacuum?
@@SimgoWood No. There are numerous other devices that have been around for years that use vacuum to lift various things including various types of pavers. A simple YT search yields many examples
Not always to great success. He made some odd scrapper for remove varnish from his wood floors so he could refinish them. He really should have left that one to professionals.
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genius idea to use a shopvac like this. i really enjoy watching your stuff!
That contraption works so well that it was until near the end of the video before I looked closely enough to see it wasn't a commercial product. Man that's great.
You are gifted and talented for crafting..
Quite possibly the most amazing thing Mattias has ever built. It's simple but so effective.
He just copied devices that have been in use for a long time
@@rd-ch1on You've said that at least 3 times in this comment section. Do you enjoy spending your day telling people how they're not nearly as inventive as they think they are, because it's all been done before? The fact of the matter is he built one, and did a significant amount of problem solving to do so out of stuff that he essentially had lying around. What have you built recently?
This is amazing. Ive done my patio front and back of my house with these 2x2 ft flag stones and yes they are heavy. This is such a quality idea. Thanks for sharing.
That was quite the slope to the house! I was going to say polymeric sand is the go to for filling the gaps and stopping weeds, but if you're planning on lifting some in the future it can be a pain. Those are some thick patio pavers.
i just layed about 30 of these pavers....and i wondered if there was a tool for helping facilitate the job and low and behold.... great work !
That lifter is crazy! And clean stones always look so nice.
this is the definition of "work smarter not harder"
Brilliant work, Matthias! Really well done! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Ah so satisfying! I've been waiting for you to use that patio stone invention again! It really is a great idea!
Your videos are always enjoyable. Great looking results. Salt and vinegar are good weed controls. Thanks and have a great day.
Wow, I love you creativity, you're really cracking!
That’s a great stone lifter you have there. It sure saves the wear and tear of having to lift those stones with your hands and the stress on your back.👏👏👍🏻
Looks great.. I love your ingenuity, that vacuum lifter is a awesome idea !
vacuum lifters have been an awesome idea for quite a while
Nice invention for lifting those stone slabs !
Regarding the plastic under the blocks to keep the weeds out: Nope. The spaces between the stones fill with debris, and the seeds of the weeds grow atop of that, but what it may prevent is anything from spreading laterally underneath, but I doubt that is going to be too effective either. It may help in preventing a large amount of erosion by dispersing the water into a larger amount of gravel below. I do think your upgrades are a HUGE help, and a great job of fixing the issues!
it makes for a longer path for the roots mostly. I don't expect it to be a permanent solution.
Wow your kids are growing like weeds Matthias! Love the homemade tools. Great video thumbs up.
they are growing indeed, but I think the weeds are faster
@@matthiaswandel I have kids growing out of the cracks in my driveway. Will your contraption lift 10' by 10' concrete slabs? Sorry, I mean 3 meter by 3 meter slabs.
@@milesparris4045 yes it will, just up scale Matthias's model a little.
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looks great, and that vacuum lifter is really cool too
Matt you do very nice work on everything you touch
Matthias acquired the crushed stone by repurposing an old boulder.
Video on how he did this soon to be released.
My wooden stone crusher experiments did not go well
I love it, you crazy Canadian. It would have taken me a month longer to make the machine than to grunt the pavers out by hand, but I'm glad you did it the way you did!
Never seen a lifter like that, I couldn't look away, awesome job.
Very neat job, and the stone lifter is super cool
Love your ingenuity!
Well done i like how you can just do anything 👍👍
You really are just the next level man!
I'm watching this in Winnipeg on July 17 where the dewpoint is north of 27C - I'm dying seeing you wrestle those blocks wearing a jacket!!
Love your videos! Good job! 👍🏻
This is an amazing machine and I really need one because I have a patio like yours but it's twice the size
Matthias Wandel. Never ceases to amaze.
Hi Matthias, the weeds doesn't actually grow in the soil beneath the stones, at least not to start. Yes bigger ones may connect roots, but its not usually the starting point. What usually happens is small seeds gets into the dirt lines between the stones, and its plenty for weeds to grow. So the plastic below wont do much, but the stones you used will likely compact and make it harder for sure. Great stuff!
I love your lifter, it’s pretty ingenious. Your Timelapse video of you compacting the rock was pretty funny as the footprint sound with the rapid “p-p-p-p-p” just made me laugh.
That's a nice piece of ingenuity. One thing that works amazingly well for keeping weeds at bay is polymeric sand in the joints. It goes in as a fine sand, then once you wet it, it stays put, and insects can't easily burrow through it. You would want to wait until you're done leveling though before applying it.
I would recommend filling the joints with sand mix (sand & cement mix) it will make weeds unable to grow in between and it will help secure the stones. It will make lifting the patios stones (with your machine) impossible in the future (they will still be able to be lifted if you start from the outside) but usually when you do a stone patio you compact the sub surfaces ALOT to mitigate settling and build it with the intention of NOT redoing it 😊.
Food for thought from someone who has built his share of large stone paver parking areas and small block patios (I personally just pour concrete now it’s soo much less working on your knees)
Thank you based upon your example I built my own using an eBay Probst head and a vacuum valve along with a tyre air compressor inflator i.e suction is created in the valve as the air rushes through. Thanks again for sharing.
Thanks for the videos. Really enjoy build videos also.
MW deserves a creativity Nobel Prize!
Very satisfying. Job well done
That paver contraption is genius
Great idea, it reminds me of a Grabo. I had bad luck with building equipment, but I am very good at customizing it. But I will copy the cart.
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yes, izzy plugging those grabos all the time kind of inspired me.
Relatable DIY content, refreshing as always.
Impressive lifter and results :-)
That's genuinely amazing.
I love his home repair/improvement videos
Stompy Wandel is what I needed this morning.
This machine is the greatest! Patent worthy in my view! Thanks.
StoneHook already has it …
Matthias Wandel: For some lazy reasoning I get satisfaction watching you do hard work. 🙂
Nice work, your patio stone lifter made an easy job of moving those stones. Without that you would have gone a different route.
we use a lot of pavers in nz. generally we use a paving mortar (coarse sand and cement) which we sweep in and then give a light watering. holds the pavers nicely and prevents weeds.
That method doesn't work here in Canada because of the freeze thaw cycles that happen multiple times per week during winter
@@rd-ch1on Polymeric sand absolutely works in Canada.
Wow it looks great
Such a boss!! Love this guy
Nice video cool contraption.
Works super well. Must keep that project in the back of the head, might need it.
Dude. You’re brillant
I love 😍 this machine. I have also issues with my back. I will also build such a thing. My brother in law has a company that does a lot of terrace construction. I wanna see his reaction on this machine.
Man you should build these things for a living. There might be a market.
Great project, I'm surprised something like this isn't on the market! Can you imagine manually lifting and positioning all those slabs!
They have been on the market for a long time. His is just a neat diy copy
care to share a link?
@@matthiaswandel Vaccuum devices have been in use for paver application for a long time. YT has tons of videos
You could just be man and lift them by hand alot quicker....
@@matthiaswandel ignore him, that guy has been all over the comments vomitting at anyone who compliments you regarding the vacuum. considering vacuum slab lifters cost upwards of 2k and you managed to make one for less than the cost of hiring one for a day with things you had. the fact that hes here and hes watched it, is good for metrics. everything else? not so much
Looks great!!
I don't like renting tools either. When I have a project that needs a specific tool that I don't have and probably won't use after the project is done I'll buy it used. After the job is done I sell it and usually get close to what I originally paid for it.
Btw, your patio looks a lot better. Good job!
Sandbox play-sand is a decent alternative to paver locking sand. It holds its shape and expands a little when wet, which keeps water from getting too deep between the pavers.
Play sand doesn't expand when it gets wet.
@@milesparris4045 I agree, for most values of play sand. polymeric sand, or IIRC some form of Masons sand. Big box stores have it.
I'm always so impressed with your enginuity! My grandpa had a 4th grade education, but was an engineer at heart. People would comes from miles around to his farm which was more of a junkyard as the years went by, and Grandpa would piece together a contraption using things like, "a set of garage door springs, stored in the bus, 2nd or 3rd seat from the back on the right, and a piece of steel plate leaning against the 1st post as you go into the barn from the South side...". I love watching fabricate and immediately employ your gadgets! Good on you, young sir!
Are you an engineer by training? Namaste
sweet video. very satisfying.
I love this tool !!
Nice job !
The way pavers are usually done is to first make a border around the entire area, then fill with gravel and then sand. Next, compact the area. Without the borders the sand and gravel 'leak' out but with the borders you get a nice compact bed.
Yes! And for easier leveling, they put some pipes in the gravel or sand and use a plank to level the gavel between the pipes. After that you remove the pipes and fill the gap.
Wrong. Border, then base which is compacted, then sand which is just screeded to the desired slope and NOT compacted, then the pavers, then more sand which is vibrated into the cracks.
The patio lifter tool is super cool. You don`t need spaces between the stones. They should be as tight to one another as possible. There is a type of sand called polymeric sand which is used to fill between the stones. It`s expensive but locks in tight and reduces weed growth.
Now that is pure inovation. Genius.
I'll hand it to you, that's some Wood Elf ingenuity
Brilliant lifting idea. I hand laid sandstone pavers of similar size some years ago weighing over 20kg each. Would have loved to do it that way. Well if i ever need to remove and level i will certainly be doing this trick. Great video as always.
Not his idea though just a neat diy version of someone else's device that's been around for a long time
care to share a link?
Hey buddy I love this machine!
I am concerned about the plastic it will indeed reduce water intrusion but reducing water on one side like this can also cause foundation damage as the ground doesn't swell equally.
I found the stone bases wobble and become uneven in time. Sand is nice as it "flows" around the paving stone fully supporting it from all sides. You could fill the gaps with torpedo sand, or play sand, it won't have the removal issue while preventing intrusion of pine needles and debris.
Yeah, I'd rather put something water permeable too
Man that patio slab lifter thing work’s well. Definitely a Dragons Den idea.
Except he can't patent it, and all venture capitalists care about is if you have a patent.
It was invented long ago. Not his idea at all just a neat diy
That was legitimately a nice house project video, nice one. ^_^
They have stuff called polymeric sand which you can put in the cracks between the pavers, it has some sort of glue in it which is activated by water.
incredible 👍👍
I can see Makita hitting the market next year with a fancy vaccum lifter. And after two years they'll update it to use batteries.
batteries would be great, that extension cord is annoying, and the vaccum is annoyingly loud
@@matthiaswandel Yoda will show you how to do it th-cam.com/video/C9tnUnjBG5g/w-d-xo.html
These vacuum devices have been in use for a long time. This is just a neat copy
G'day from down under. A tip i have is to drive a few pegs into the ground all around. Use a level across the tops of them to set the heights you want. Then you can fill up to the level of each peg and remove as you go. Voila.
Neighbour must think he LOVES vacuuming
OK, I guess I'll watch you for four more years!
Looks nice. A good tip: When weeds are starting to grow between the stones, throw boiled water over the plants. It will kill the plants.
Boiling hot water or just boiled water?
@@benkasminbullock Boiling or pickling vinegar
Great vid, really showing how good the lifter is. If you have to do it again, might be worth making a half sized lifting plate thing for the half ones.
probably just adding a strip across the middle-ish might be enough
If you mix salt in with whatever you put between the cracks, it will suppress the weeds.
You should invent a mini compactor, Matthias. Paving/tiling without one is usually a mess down the track. A tile only has to rock a tiny little bit for it to dig out both corners.
Genius, maximum results, minimum effort with a sprinkling of thought.
I've watched this several times now, it's such a brilliant idea and so satisfying to see the pavers pulled out so cleanly. I'm inspired to try making a smaller version without the hand truck; I have a path on the side of the house that has pavers that are more like size of the half-ones in this video, maybe a bit smaller and thinner, but are still a pain to remove largely because it's hard to get a good hold on them and remove them where they won't crack.
When we built a patio like that, I brought home a "plate wacker" from work. First the compact the sand & then to set the pavers. I filled all the gaps with fine sand first. Then used a plate wacker to set the pavers. You need the sand moist when you compact it. Any kind of "sub-base" material needs to be wet when you compact it. You will never get proper compaction the way you did it. With good compaction, you wouldn't leave foot prints in the sand. Quarry fines is OK for the base, but I would buy enough bags of extra fine sand to use between the pavers.
Good job
Pretty neat 'contraption'.
Thanks for sharing
I have a brick sidewalk at my front door. The base layer is sand and so I get a lot of weeds growing between the bricks. I used to use a week wacker but the roots were still in there. I started using a propane torch to burn the weeds out. The burning makes the weed growth much slower. You might want to try burning the weeds if you have a torch. I use a Mister Heater propane burner with a 20 lb propane tank. The first time I used the propane torch it worked well. I turned it off and went back to use it and it would light but not really blast. I found the problem is if you turn the propane tank valve too fast the regulator in the handle of the torch thinks the pressure is too high and barely lets the propane flow. So if you use the propane torch then turn on the tank valve slowly and the propane torch will work at full volume and not be throttled. DIY Home Improvement is always hot and tiring.
That's fabulous Mathias, I get 3 crops of weed a year and flag stones are on quite a slope, each weigh at least 100 pounds, I have a bad back so. Who knows.. but maybe not.. lol..
Oh how's it working out now 2024.. thanks 👍
Here in Belgium, we usually put a mix of 1 part cement/ 10 parts sand under this kind of stones.
1-10 wtf, leehigh is like 1-3 ratio
@@guwop2234 1:3 is a mortar/concrete like ratio; 1:10 is called “stabilisé” here (probably short for stabilised sand) and is used slightly moist; it hardens out over time but is fairly brittle (which doesn’t really matter in this case since the tiles distribute the pressure). Stabilisé is also used as the bed when putting drainage pipes underground.
the gaps between pavers is usually filled with polymeric sand, or just any old sand mixed with cement powder, you sweep it in and then water it down
well done!
Hi, I take it you do not like weed killer. Many thanks for ALL your uploads, from Nr Liverpool UK.
@Charles Brainard One can, if one does not value their time. When I'm out there killing weeds I use glyphosate. Because I want it done.
@Charles Brainard I do not get it on myself when I use it. I just apply it with a pump sprayer. I try to do it on a windless day too. I imagine rotor wash isn't good for the process. I am not into nanny states banning effective things. If I need someone to protect me from myself I'll ask for help. So far so good here though.
Pressure-washing the patio-stone top surface will clean them up nice, almost like new. Little late now as loose material between them will fly out in every direction.
I think thats obvious. Won't help with sagging though.
Pre-emergent herbicide between the stones should help with the weeds :-). Preen works great!
Preen is OK for a season.
@@1pcfred Run an experiment; preen only half those pavers, and see what happens in a year :-).
@@hmspain52 I've already used Preen so I know what happens. It's good for a season.