How to Build a Round Paver Patio

what's up guys welcome back to outdoor beards where today we're building a paver patio my particular patio is gonna be a 14-foot diameter circle of course you can change that and make it whatever size and shape you want in our case if you saw our last video we've already removed the sod so at this point it's time to start digging digging a hole there's no short cut here it's just hard manual labor unless you want to run two backhoe or something but I didn't want to spend that kind of money so I offered my neighbor nothing in exchange for hard manual labor he agreed to my terms when we got started to calculate how deep you want to dig your hole you need to take your paper thickness in my case one point seven inches add one inch for your sand layer and four to eight inches for your base layer so my total depth here is eight point two inches but I want my pavers to be sitting above the grass line mostly for aesthetics so I decided to go with a seven inch deep hole which will put my my paver sitting above the grass line by roughly one inch and I think that's gonna look really nice the next step is to bring in your base layer I suggest buying this from your local landscaping company and it's called paver base or a 3/4 - because the largest rock that you'll find in here is 3/4 of an inch whoever you buy this from can also help you calculate how much you need I ended up buying six yards but I also have multiple projects going on so if you're only gonna do the patio you don't actually need six yards of paver base I think I went through three and a half yards roughly for just the patio when installing your base you need to load the hole with four to six inches of base material and then compact it down I tried to be frugal and tamp this down by hand but after about 15 minutes of that I went ahead and rented a compactor trust me it is worth the money to rent a compactor go through this process a couple times and check for level as you go your goal is not to be level but to have a slight slope for water runoff in my case I sloped to the back corner of the yard once you're satisfied with your base layer it's time to bring in the sand we had our base layer delivered because it was six yards for our sand I only needed one yard so I just borrowed a buddy's truck and went picked it up quick tip with this when you unload the stuff unload it closer to your project as you can see here I'm like 10 or 12 feet away and it caused me a lot of unnecessary travel when you bring the sand in you have to do what's called screeding take one-inch thick pipes and lay them out in your project area roughly two to three feet apart then bring the sand in and pile it on and around these pipes now take a straight edge like a six-foot level or a 2x4 and you're going to scrape it across the pipes in order to create a nice flat surface for your pavers to sit on the normal process here is to lay all of your sand screed it and then start laying your pavers starting from one edge and working your way across in my case I wanted the two pavers in the middle to be perfectly centered so my entire design would be centered within the circle you don't have to do this but I'm kind of obsessive and it can't really help myself so in order to accomplish this I screen it just one section of my sand all the way out to the middle I strung some string in an X to find my exact center and then I placed the two Center pavers since I can't walk on the sand I created a path of pavers out to the edge that I could walk on before I finished creating the rest of the project when you take your pipes out of your sand this is gonna leave a line just take a little bit of sand throw it in there you can use either a concrete trowel or I just used a six inch putty knife to flatten that back up the papers were using today are called Holland tan and charcoal concrete pavers I purchased them from Lowe's but I know you can get them from Home Depot as well in the spring they were on sale for twenty-five cents each and they're normally 56 cents each so sometimes if you can timeout your project to the right time of year you can save yourself some money making sure to only step on the bricks that I already laid down in that little pathway I started laying the rest of the bricks out in the pattern that I chose make sure you are setting the pavers in place and not sliding them around you don't want to like put them down and slide them over because is gonna push your sand around and it's really helpful to have someone laying pavers out for you because this is gonna save you a ton of time and a lot of back pain once I laid out the bulk of my pavers I needed to mark my outer edge I took two stakes and tied them together with a seven foot rope and drag them around the edge to create a line that I could follow with my perimeter pavers quick sidenote if you decide to make the same patio the diameter of 14 feet makes it so there are exactly 124 bricks around the perimeter and you don't have to cut one I've done the math before hand because my excessiveness requires all the perimeter pavers to be the same size because I'm weird now that we have our perimeter in place it's time for the fun part I had to cut roughly 110 pavers to fit all along this edge to do this I purchased a Dewalt angle grinder with a masonry diamond blade it cuts through these pavers like butter the best way I found to do this is to hold the paver above where it's going and to mark it on the left and right side then at the table I would use a straight edge to draw a line across the paver where I needed to cut it for the most part cutting all the pavers went really smoothly there were a couple of small corner pieces that were a little bit of a hassle but it went pretty fast and it came out really nice so I'm real happy with it now that all our pavers are in place we're on the homestretch we've installed some landscape edging around this just so the patio pavers don't move during this next process I cleaned off the patio with a leaf blower and then tamp the entire thing by hand you're not trying to beat the patio in to paint in the submission with this you're just trying to kind of get them to settle within the sand this is also gonna reveal if you have any high or low spots if you do probably pavers out with a couple of screwdrivers add a little bit of sand take a little bit of sand out whichever you need and put the paper back in place the final step is to put perma sand between all the joints list of acts like a brick mortar you'll pour this on your patio sweep it around with a wide broom to get it into all the gaps once you think all the gaps are full tamp all the pavers with your hand tamper this will cause them to vibrate and allow that sand to get deeper within those gaps then you're just gonna repeat this process until you don't see any more settling put any excess back in the bucket and lightly blow off the remaining excess with a leaf blower it's important you don't leave any of this on top of your pavers because it could stain them the last step is to wet down the patio the moisture activates the polymers in the sand and binds them together once this dries your patios done look at that we built ourselves a paver patio grab a beer sit back and enjoy and as always stay bearded my friends [Music]

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Length: 6min 30sec (390 seconds)

Published: Fri May 15 2020