How to Install Beautiful Paver Edging

good morning and welcome back to outdoor beards where today we're going to be carrying on with our landscaping project and finishing up our two-step edging that's going all around the yard i've already got two sides of this done we're working on the third side today and that's where we're gonna do our little how-to i was trying to get this edging done a lot sooner but i kind of had to sideline this project and do a little bit of remodeling in the house because we have a guest coming ladies and gentlemen this is my daughter and i'm super excited i'm so excited uh if you've been following the channel for a long time you know i really really enjoy kids specifically mine i've got a little boy right now and we're bringing in a little girl and so i've had to remodel a room and paint it pink and it turns out that when you have a kid it's a lot of work the kid's not even here yet it's a lot of work anyway so this project here had to get signed lined a little bit so i could make sure things are ready for this one anyway so let me show you what we've done around the yard and then we'll get started on the project uh if you haven't seen the video for how to make a paper patio i will link that up right here that turned out really nice we've enjoyed quite a few evenings of s'mores by the campfire on this other corner of the yard we built a second paver patio to use for the shed base i had a wood base under here before it was kind of warping i had done that project really fast and it was really bad and anyway so i took that out and i built a second paper patio because you know i'm just addicted to punishment i guess and you can see back there i've also got a a raised section and there's a gap back here if you can see that and that gap has a purpose there is on this side of the patio there is this tree this tree is in my neighbor's yard and it is bowing this fence out real bad it's actually bowed by a little over half inch right now and as the tree grows it's going to continue to bow and i didn't want that fence pushing on my edging and like moving my patio around or destroying it so this gap right here i'm filling with rocks and as the fence continues to bow it will push the rocks around instead of pushing my patio around this is our project for the day i'm going to show you how to install this type of edging which is basically just a little two-step edging and of course this runs into our paper patio and then it goes around the back kind of in a half circle all the way to the other side and then carries on all the way down the fence now as you know i'm kind of obsessive compulsive and uh look at how straight that is oh it makes me so happy it's just yeah if you're gonna do something take the time and do it right to start this off we're going to measure out four feet from the from the fence line here and we're going to put a line in the dirt we're using one of these things i have no idea what this is called but it basically cuts a nice straight line into your dirt and then we're going to dig a trench uh this trench here we're gonna be about five inches deep i don't need to go as deep with this as i did on the patio because there's not gonna be traffic on this edging so you can save yourself a little effort and you don't have to go quite as deep and we're basically building a really long thin paper patio [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right we've got our trench dug all the way down we're going to start installing our base material this just like the paver patio is basically just a road base you can get this at your nearest local landscaping company so we're going to pack the trench in here and have it be slightly above where we want it to end up oh we could just shovel all this in place kind of spread it around and then we're going to pack it down when you're digging your trench make sure your trench is as wide as your your hand tamper that way the trench doesn't get in the way of tamping it down now after i've compacted this with a hand tamper i'm going to go through and just soak it that'll help get rid of all the air pockets and just kind of harden it up a little bit all right so we're on day two of our edging project here we've got our base lay down it's tamped it's nice and solid i didn't work too hard on making sure that the base layer was level because i'm actually going to be using the sand in order to level this out all the way across i've already started layering some pavers so let's continue on and i'll show you how i level this out [Music] for this you will need a bucket full of your paper sand you will need some sort of a straight edge i prefer this this is basically just electrical electrical conduit works really well for this you'll need a level of some kind so i've got a four foot level here a little shovel rubber mallet does seem to come in handy and then of course your pavers so at this point here i'm i've actually got a bit of a junction we're going to be taking a turn and so i need to level this part out with the sand and make sure it's the same height as over here so let me show you how i do that i'm going to take our bucket of sand and just kind of dump some of this down in here then using our hand we'll kind of spread it out a little bit then we're going to use our level kind of pushing it around here and i'm watching the bubble as i'm doing this i'm going to get it nice and flat i'm going to go back and forth creating a nice flat surface that's level so now this surface right here is perfectly flat and perfectly level but you can see over here where i need to make this turn is not quite there yet so we're going to take our shovel add a little bit more sand in here and go through the process again pushing that back and forth now you might have to do this a couple of times especially since i'm doing a turn because i also need to make sure that this sand is not only level but is also the same height as this paper here when you're doing this in a long row it's easy because you can just kind of work your way down make sure it's level all the way down and then set your bricks in place and work your way across i can see this spot right here is still a little bit too high so using my level again and kind of shave this down there we go i should be able to just set a brick and pres in place we're just going to work our way across now earlier i said you're going to need a straight edge [Music] in this case my electrical conduit and this is to make sure that my brick line is nice and straight and once you've leveled out that sand you can set these bricks in here pretty quick and of course i'm going to have to cut one down at the end but you can see this straight edge is really useful because you could just put the bricks right up to it and work your way down and then once we get into our uprights i'll show you how i'm going to do that now for our vertical pavers those are going to go right on the back here we've already got the sand left over from when we were leveling out for this should be able to just place these right in here and because of how we leveled this sand this is all going to come out flat and even with these and one last tip for you for the vertical pavers here take a 2 by 4 and cut it to the right height just putting it in front tap that brick down and no i'm going to be the same height all the way across and because i'm doing this measurement off of these bricks which i know are level these will be level as well all right so we're on the last step of our edging project here we're about to add the permasan to this before you start this process make sure you look down the line here make sure it's nice and straight to your liking we're going to add our perma sand so get yourself a small paint brush a little shovel in your bucket of perma sand now unlike our paper patio where we were able to just dump this on there and sweep it around with a giant broom we're gonna have to use a little bit more finesse here so grab your shovel take just a little bit of the perma sand put it over here in the corner and then using your brush you're going to sweep it into the cracks here now after you've done this make sure you sweep off any excess and then wet it down just like we did on the paper patio let it dry and you're good to go [Music] you

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Length: 11min 19sec (679 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 21 2020