Pavers and out door kitchen

[Fordguy]

Hey guys just bored thought i'd post some pics of a job i started this week, still in progress but here are a couple pics from the begining of this week. all around the pool is going to be pavers with a outdoor kitchen area.

[shade tree landscaping]

def wanna see the finished pics

[N.H.BOY]

Im guessing a deck will be off that back door huh??

[02DURAMAX]

Nice Newholland!!!!

[South Florida Lawns]

do you rent or own your equipment?

[Fordguy]

do you rent or own your equipment?
I own all my equipment.

[Fordguy]

ok here are a couple pics from this this morning after we poured the concrete saturday for the pavers. We dont use dust we pour concrete 2 1/4''
below grade and set the pavers on right on top,then you dont have any settling or grass growing in between. we been doing this for the last 10 years. Lets here your comments !!

[TXNSLighting]

Wow, theres an idea.. It has to cost alot more no?

[PlatinumLandCon]

How thick and how many million feet of rebar to prevent cracks? Concrete is a bad base for pavers, doesn't flex with the weather like agg. A proper agg base lasts longer than a slab.

[Fordguy]

Wow, theres an idea.. It has to cost alot more no? no not really $19sqft

[Fordguy]

How thick and how many million feet of rebar to prevent cracks? Concrete is a bad base for pavers, doesn't flex with the weather like agg. A proper agg base lasts longer than a slab.
Any bigger area we use wire mesh, we haven't used dust in like 10yrs with no problems or callbacks. I don't care how much you compact the base within 5 or so years your going to get sink holes,ruts especially from driveways with a garage because your constantly driving in the same place,and you dont get grass or weeds growing in between the cracks like you do with agg either.
thats just my 2 cents though....

[punt66]

Ive done a few like that. Weeds still grow! Dirt will still settle in and seeds will germinate. I like aggregate better mainly because if you have a slab fail/ crack/ heave/ etc, it would be a huge repair job. Now i use large process, small process, concrete sand, and sometimes i add portland to the top and bed into it. I have never had a call back with aggregate either. I dont do paver drives here. Winters are too harsh and there is too much clay.

[Fordguy]

Ive done a few like that. Weeds still grow! Dirt will still settle in and seeds will germinate. I like aggregate better mainly because if you have a slab fail/ crack/ heave/ etc, it would be a huge repair job. Now i use large process, small process, concrete sand, and sometimes i add portland to the top and bed into it. I have never had a call back with aggregate either. I dont do paver drives here. Winters are too harsh and there is too much clay. yeah there's only two other guys around me who do it the same way with concrete.you add portland to the concrete sand? how does that work good

[punt66]

yeah there's only two other guys around me who do it the same way with concrete.you add portland to the concrete sand? how does that work good


It works great. Helps to lock the pavers down real well. I had to do an add on to one job and in the process had to remove about 3 feet of pavers i previously laid with that method. I needed to hit the pavers with a hammer to unbed them. The portland really helps to bind it all up after it raines a few times.

[DLAWNS]

That's a very interesting method. I don't do pavers myself, but have a bunch of friends that do and I have never heard of doing it that way. But hey if it works and you prefer it, sounds good to me. Keep the updates coming.

[Fordguy]

I didnt get a chance to take pictures to day so here's a few pics of the steps from the other day.

[Fordguy]

another picure...

[DLAWNS]

It's looking good. Can't wait to see the final product.

[yourmove]

Just curious . . . What is the railing sytem for the stairway?

[wildlandscape]

wow thats nice

[A-Land]

The high stairs look odd...

[Skimastr105]

Nice construction (hopefully there's a handrail)... but personally I don't like the way the stairs go up to either of the doors. IMHO there's too much vertical to do a paver steps... unless you create a terraced patio... larger areas... that could look nice.

In the name of cost, I would have probably suggested a simple deck... maybe working its way downgrade in two or three levels. Just ideas to help you in the future - take it or leave it... but like I said - the construction looks nice.

[riverwalklandscaping]

same, I think it would have looked much better with a raised patio at door level and one or two levels dropping to final grade... but the construction looks very well done

[DLAWNS]

Any updated pictures of the project?