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Installing Bluestone Pavers on the Terrace
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Installing Bluestone Pavers on the Terrace
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" You've already done all the preliminary work right yes we remove all alone from the back. Both twelve inches or so brought back some. Pressure on gravel met the base material for local phone -- how deep is that it's provinces to -- twelve inches of crushed room. And then how much don't dispute would now it would dominance of stone dust as the base for the bluestone -- OK so you don't want to have more than an inch by you can go to Internet half or so would you want to keep it a pretty thin -- right. Now that the plan is for a rectangular terrorists. That -- the whole width of the house but there's not cut out here for some planting to square that's five by five right yes and another one down their room tree that's right. And you have gotten started here looks beautiful. The would go to stud on the before the weather -- the boost on a -- to go in but we had to stop groups rain is just too much for right now. Yet when everything gets saturated like this obviously you cannot do the installation is. He wouldn't come out right it just doesn't set right what kind of -- and is this I know it's it's it's a lilacs caller right it's a lilac color comes from New York. Usually bluestone as grew blue gray color but. This is a nice change through would be very pleasant against the house when it's finished fifth when are we going to do you going to have to -- they're so you know we're going to have to let it dry out -- Day. See what happens and hopefully get back to it."
" Before we continue our I wanted to the kind of take a close look at four which you've done here is this is the blueprint that the landscape architect. Gives you from which you put together a bit on the other work as well as figure out how to work's going to be decades. Plane which then -- all the colors of stuff ourselves we get the plant from landscape architect of course would bring an office and -- review it. Every corner of the site has to be details so that we cannot. They plan the project and its -- we had. The hardscape in the furthest corner and work our way through this back -- here yet this is the whole back terraced back here we just walked across over in this direction. We're standing right here now. Now we're still in hardscape we've been delayed by weather next week hopefully we'll be putting in beautiful plant specimens but. Right now. Let's let's let's look at this has its. It's what's called a random pattern. Is there is some logic to it. Now only you can start on an edge you work your way in just want to watch your joints and make sure you don't have -- joints that are too long. You want to want to make sure you don't get four corners to come together anywhere. In in some areas it does. Lay out for against one you got one stone here with the war the stones up against it. Right that just coincidence or is noted we have to make up some of these points every once in awhile with a smaller stones salute you not entering along dealings with two foot and walk can't. And of course we reviewed earlier how you've got an inch inch and a half of the stone dust. And the pieces get put down. So we grab another until four. They're small enough to. No this is not right. Now it's not going to work because. The floor cornice come together hand right it really doesn't -- a good look it and when 110 that's a little so you want to turn it the other way. And now. But will it actually tamp down that monsters -- not good quarter -- difference there you'd want to get it to about an eighth of an inch should be able to have a gallon of sending him. Since sometimes it'll work when -- first set the stone and puts many have to take some of the material it's OK and one of the things I remember discussing with a landscape architects was the width of our. Joints in between and we talked about a pencil with kind of and the idea being that I like the -- The effect of the weather and of months starting to grow in between and stuff as the years go by and the best way to encourage them to have as good Schwartz joining."
" Good that's going right down was picked up another look. About that big look here --"
" This -- OK and we've made quite a bit of progress now this. Gets back to what we're talking about in the plan. What have you done here the planting that for the thunder cloud -- Yeah and it's going to be coming in next week so we had to excavate the whole four feet deep. Put it alone and fill it up with -- green -- OK well we're almost at the end of the chairs and what are we doing here. Well Leon we found a stone it has a bed corner. And we don't want to waste anything so many -- that we just have to make a cut on. We can still use them both the it's best part of the phone and come back to this joint here. And just make this one cut all right is that just -- run the blade that many -- yes OK let's watch. Thought this is exciting we just condensed that but in real time it really only took about two minutes remaining to cut right through there. And I just has to be. Fitted out of it but we're almost done here analyst yes I mean we're good at what we've done in about another -- peninsula through these the last few pieces that go in here. And then do we have to add stone dust to the top of it and sweep it around to get into the cracks yes that the ways that we arrange the joints. What we've installed."
