Hi, all.

I'm tempted to send him to my applicator guy and have the patio treated for weed control and leave it at that.

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that's your answer.

 

Anyone not willing to have the job done right is going to be the customer that NEVER goes away.

 

I see two choices. 1. Roundup. 2. Rip it all out and start from scratch, installing properly.

 

Thanks for the responses, Groomer, Allabouttheyard and Mr.Jon.

I don't have nearly the experience as the pros that are in the hardscape forums, so I appreciate the feedback. He'll get the option of an applicator to come in that knows his stuff or start from scratch, but I'll be more than happy to take on the landscape and subcontract as needed to help manage it along for him. That's a place I'm quite content at the moment to be.

 

You could pressure wash out the sand, dirt and weeds, then sweep in the poly sand with weed preventer, we do this on older installations we've done. The patios look like new after this for years . It doesn't solve the spacing issues, but may give the customer what he wants

 

I agree, with this, I have done this and it works well, and I have never seen the polymer sand pop out later.

 

I dont see whats wrong with the spacing, its a birck patio set in sand with some weeds, it looks normal.
Bricks aren't "interlocking" like most concrete paver systems.

Spay weeds.
Come back later and zip off the dead with a weed whacker.
Pressure wash out excess sand, sweep in polymeric sand and granular dimension.
Water it in.

 

I also dont see a reason to start over.

why would there be a concrete pad underneath bricks?
Do you mean crushed gravel?

Depending on how old the brick patio installation is, it was not common practice to lay brick on crushed gravel treated pads back in the day, it was just a sand bed.

I wouldnt do a brick patio anymore, they're also hard to come by now.
Used to be when people where tearing down old brick buildings you could get recycled bricks for a song, which is where you find the brick patios, they were installed in that era.

 

Don't want to sound like a broken record, but considering its age and appearance, it actually appeals to me. I'd definitely go with pressure washer with an orbital high pressure nozzle. Let dry and install poly sand. It will age perfectly.

 

Here is one I did with bricks probably about 100 years old. We don't do hardscapes but we were working on a job and the excavator guy working on site came and said the owner wants you to put these down, I'll help with a base, so we laid them.

It will probably look like that in a couple years but the owner is happy with it for now.

 

weed wack(with reckless abandon)
pressure wash(carefully,so as not to chip old brick)
sweep poly-sand(only after COMPLETELY DRY)
collect check(with a smile)