Living in Southern California, you tend to get used to palm trees. They are everywhere, about as iconic as the Hollywood sign.In fact, one of the most well-known photos of
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Do you ever have those little projects in your landscape where what you have just isn't working for you? Yeah, us too and here it was!
We have two screen doors coming off the screened in pool and the existing paver walkway just wasn't what I had ultimately envisioned for the area. When it rained the dirt and mud would come through the cracks and the weeds were annoying as well.
Tip #1 Base Preparation
Any paver installation is only as good as the base preparation, so don’t skimp here! Taking the time to do this right will insure that your pavers won’t settle or move once they are installed. To get this right you need to have a solid gravel base. Dig out the existing soil to accommodate 6” of gravel base, 1” of leveling sand/small crushed gravel fines and the paver thickness. Yep, that is about 10” of digging!
After you have placed the gravel, go ahead and compact it. For this little project, we chose not to use the leveling sand and are using the recycled gravel fines as a leveling course.
Once the 6” base is set, lay two 1” diameter metal poles on top of the base and make sure that there is a little bit of pitch to help with the drainage.
Tip #2 Sleeve It!
Anytime that you are putting in a new walkway, put a sleeve in! What is a sleeve? I thought that you would never ask! A “sleeve” is very simply a pipe that will allow you to run any type of future wiring (electrical/landscape lighting) or irrigation pipe through without having to dig up all of your hard work.
Tip #3 Use Quality Materials
If installed correctly, remember the base preparation, paver walks can and should last for decades! Don’t get all frugal on us and use cheap materials that won’t last or hold up to more foot traffic!
We used an alternating combination of
Living in Southern California, you tend to get used to palm trees. They are everywhere, about as iconic as the Hollywood sign.In fact, one of the most well-known photos of
I'm one of those people who wears binoculars, the funny hat you see in parks and watches birds. Yep, I'm a birder. So naturally, I like to feed the birds in the yard, and hopefully get some interesting, out of the ordinary species from time to time, but notice I said species, not genus. Yes squirrel, I'm talking to you! I love all animals alike, but I'm not loving you hogging the feeder all the time. One day I might give you your own, but for now, hands off.
Today’s photos are from Carla Z. Mudry in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
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