How to Build a Grass Driveway | Ask This Old House

[Music] Terry here's the solution for your problem of the driveway this is a plastic Paving system how's that going to look it's going to look great it's going to look just like grass but in order to get it there we have to first dig underneath it and put some Stone in then we're going to lay this down on top of the stone we're going to fill all these Honeycombs with top soil and then we're going to put sod right on top of it oh wow and you'll be able to drive over these oh that'll be cool okay so we got to do some digging you ready I'm ready let's go now Terry if you look you have one post down there and you have all green in front of it what I'd like to do is go to that post and have all green in front of it too in order to do that we got to rake back some of the stone about 2 ft now Terry before we start digging even though we're only going down less than a foot here I always call my utility locating service and they come out and they Mark the utilities you can see here they put in a big yellow Mark which is gas and that means we're okay to dig [Music] awesome we're going to reuse some of the top soil so let's get the good stuff on the top and the rest of it we'll truck out of here [Music] now we can compact the subsoil we want it good and firm before we put our Stone on top of it Terry here's our base materal this is 3/4 inch Crush Stone and this is great for a couple of reasons first it drains so this area won't get swampy second once we compact this it'll be a great base for our plastic to lie on and ultimately our saw to grow on excellent so I'm going to dump it and you're going to spread it all right okay ready one [Applause] two I'll go get some more okay have fun [Music] y we only want to put in two or three inches of this crushed stone at a time then pack it down so we know that everything is nice and tight all right so we dug out all the loming material we compacted subgrade we put some Stone in compacted that y more Stone more compacting now we're up to just the right height where we can slide our plastic panels in and they're about an inch below this grade and that's what the saw will be sitting out perfect so now we're ready to start laying the tiles you ready I'm ready you want to hand them to me sure okay all right now we just take and line these up and they will snap right into place there we go good right before you do that I'm going to take the grade steak out of the way grab that root all right I want to put these down in a running bar pattern that means the joints are going to be staggered and it'll give it more strength in order to do that I have to cut some half pieces of the panels and I'll do that using my reciprocating saw all right with our LOM all mixed with some compost we're going to start filling in the grid before we put the saw down taking water this in and make sure it's all compacted down into those honeycomb the wet soil will help the roots grow all right so now we're ready to plant plant we could put down seed and wait 2 to 4 weeks for it to come up and fight the weeds and everything that goes with a seated lawn but today I'm going to give you sod and you are going to have an instant lawn there we go you ready I'm ready okay you'll notice that we're rolling out the saw at a 90° angle to the plastic pavers that's to even give it more strength so it won't move when it's driven [Music] on all right here we go here you go oh wow coming out that is awesome how's it look oh it looks [Music] great

Channel: This Old House

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Keywords: This Old House, Ask This Old House, DIY, Home Improvement, DIY Ideas, Renovation, Renovation Ideas, How To Fix, How To Install, How To Build, driveway, grass, landscaping, grass driveway, gravel, gravel paver, crushed stone, sod, grass seed, yard, roger cook, norm abram, tom silva, richard trethewey, kevin o'connor, tom silva this old house, tom silva house, tom silva construction, tom silva tools, tommy silva

Id: 99-c1TRffhI

Length: 5min 19sec (319 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 18 2016