Pavers-Mastering the basics

okay we got our class five back here next step i'm gonna run this string line way back up there by the mini x it's right here so we're gonna match the pavers for the path are gonna we're gonna match the top of the stairs here obviously so we're gonna run that right here then we're gonna go along with the handy dandy tape measure and check our depths we're gonna have to come down quite a bit still it looks like nine inches which we are definitely not six it's gonna be like two three it's not gonna be five three okay so yeah we need to take six to seven inches out of uh most of this still there's gonna be a lot of dirt coming out of here all right guys so this i realized was gonna be a great project and mental note let's remind danny not to create nicknames for the guys he's terrible at it i don't know what boulder busters means um but this is actually a this project actually is a really great project to use as an example of how we install the papers and i thought well what a great opportunity for us to start to master the basics so we're going to install this paver sidewalk where you've seen sam talking right from the beginning all the way up to the house and show you what we do step by step now the first step is the excavating and as you can see blaine is using the flat nose of the bucket and he's not over digging this is kind of an important thing that i want to bring up if he does over dig it's not the end of the world but you can't just put that dirt back in and and hit it and hope nobody sees it because what'll happen is somebody will see it like in three years so let's say you over dig by just six inches right you just one scoop a little too deep put the dirt in pack it it's not gonna bridge you gotta put that dirt back in it and you got to pack it with a actual packer and when i mean you know hit it a lot of guys will hit it with an excavator bucket or something like that thinking that's good enough and it's good enough at the moment but what'll happen is over a course of a few years if you've had six inches you dug too deep and you pack it you'll you're not getting that whole six inches packed and you're gonna have a little bit of settlement down the road so it's important to do it right sorry that took me so long to explain [Music] organic material let's address this you can't have any organic material below a structure a sidewalk so even though sam laid out the string line which will help him cut ler understand how far down he has to cut if he hits the bottom of that cut right where the asv is right now and he's still finding black dirt he's still got to go deeper it's all got to be removed we can't leave any organic material behind and let's say that let's paint another scenario let's say you dig down and it's just nasty all the way down as far as you go it's nasty well there is a technique to bridge if you can't dig all of the bad material out and bring all good material in we call it bridging and that's where we kind of dig down to a certain depth and we put the material back in place but then we layer grid into the base and what that does is it acts as a giant snowshoe helping distribute the weight now let's talk about another thing the base we use anywhere from four to six inches blaine's out taking out another load of dirt and coming back with more class five we are going to need a little bit of that today anyways we got this all excavated out where it needs to be within a half an inch of where it needs to be um when they say that you want four to six inches of base underneath your sand and your pavers we usually shoot for six because why not so we're in between uh like five and a half inches and six inches which is plenty so i'm gonna run the packer over it and then we're gonna start bringing class five back and packing it and what so what sam said is the four inches is what we like to use as a minimum six inches is really what we do like to shoot for and it's always better to air on the side of going heavy so if they go seven or eight inches what is it going to cost the company a few extra bucks but it's gonna make sure it's better than going too light which is like two or three inches worst possible thing you can do so the deeper you put that base though you gotta make sure that you get good compaction now sam's using 150 pound plate packer this is actually our finished packer and although it will suffice for the base we don't like to put all of the base in at once in pack it would like to put it in so i got the class 5 on all of this dialed in yesterday i was kind of shooting from the hip and just eyeballing it last night and we need three inches from the top of the line to the top of the class five because that's her sand and pavers like i said i was eyeballing it it's like three inches on the nuts the whole way down so feeling kind of good about that anyways uh blaine's up getting sand sounds like the place we get that ed is freaking real busy today so he's gonna be a little bit uh so plan for today i have this little strip in between that class five and this class five we gotta excavate out get class five in all that kind of stuff and i'm just gonna throw this out here right now i'm not gonna lie i don't have a ton of experience on the mini x i mostly just run the skid steers so for all of y'all that could probably do better in your sleep and all that kind of stuff first step at being good at something is being bad at it well said sam just chill well said sam brave boy actually filming uh you know something that he's not good at so let's go back to what we were talking about earlier with uh packing it and lifts we're using about six inches of base material but we're packing it in two lifts that way we make sure we're good now technically 150 pound plate packer could possibly do it in one lift but we know it will do it and two lifts twice as well not twice as good technically because he can only hit so much density of your soil and having your soil too dense isn't a bad thing [Music] so you can see sam's being actually pretty careful not to over dig all right we got most out of that's a little bit excavated here plane just showed up he's fueling up the littlest asv that could he's got a big old load of sand this asb can lift this load of sand i i will be shocked and surprised this thing is powerful the guys love this machine but that is heavy that's got to be at least 3 000 pounds i'm gonna guess it's not gonna do it come on blaine do it go for it drag and drop it blaine it's just sand do it drag and drop lift it if you ever gonna drag and drop do it with a pallet of sand all right well we were hoping we were going to be able to lift that off of there and that little rt50 is just let's see how much they have to shovel off to make it happen oh yeah that is what that was not getting lifted with that little guy great that wasn't very much sand was it can it do it can it do it oh it's right there it's right there oh he's got it he's got it it'd be interesting to see if this can lift a whole pallet of pavers i know it can lift a full pallet of block but let's see if it can lift a full pallet of pavers because that's that's a game changer they can let the full pal out of favor look at some traps do you guys see that those traps oh here we go here we go okay so we use screed bars so in this case they're actually screening the base material and then we'll use the same screen bars to screed the sand after they get this base laid out they'll lift them yep they're lifting the bars up and they'll set the bottom of their base they'll pack that down and then they'll lift the bars up again and set reuse those bars for their sand the reason we use the bars it's literally just to the right depth for your sand you don't want to go too deep on sand simply because deep sand although it it is a non-organic material and structurally is amazing it has zero binder and can shift if you get a lot of rain underneath it so if you have a deep sand base and you get that sand underneath you're shifting a little tiny bit it can take a perfectly level base paver and just kitty wampus it a tiny bit and throw it off so we like to use this is recycled class five this is three quarter inch rock and it has fines all the way down but the fines are actually a compactable material and packs up hard like concrete and here you'll see these guys putting the base in and two lifts they've already got one lift down this is the second lift and you see where he's hitting it with a pack sorry i feel like i'm talking too much this time there's just so many details i want to get out to you guys because i know some of you guys maybe who's gonna use this to help you build your own pavers so i'm just gonna splurt it all out here and i promise i'll won't talk so much on future ones [Music] just by screening the base it makes the next step screeding the sand goes so much faster it really does hey good morning everyone this is a chili one today we are gonna have a little bit further trip with the skid steer now so this is the recycle class five before we lay it down and what recycle class five is is this is actually asphalt and concrete from roads curbs brought to a central processing facility ground up to make new road based materials this is all green material all completely being reused and it works amazing but this load is chunky if you look as it comes out you're going to see bigger chunks which isn't the end of the world but those big chunks can't be left in trunks see those chunks coming out those chunks have to be broken down so although it's not perfect it's not the end of the world we're not going to reject this load it just means the boys got to be extra careful but when you're putting it in lifts that thick it's not the end of the world anyway those trunks naturally get broke up all right yeah [Music] oh man there's some big chunks in this one all right somebody told me to use a rubber mallet keep one with every dump trailer and then when you dump just tap the trailer with the rubber mallet and you'll get your box clean that was a great point i think i'm gonna include a rubber mallet right in the battery box of every one of my dump trailers and this is the first year we've ever used dump trailers we love it love it love it love it it's just so convenient the boys can get whatever they need whenever they need it oh here we go here we go the rt50 is lifting a pallet and pass backwards when it's going backward like that the weight is shifted backwards which kind of tips you backward actually does help in this case so let's see when it gets level how it does [Music] and it's little it's a little a little floaty isn't it that's a good machine you guys but the new one the max series cam is amazing the max series cabin the asv is incredible i'll show you that in a different video you guys are here for this so let's just think on one track here so you can see where exactly what they're doing and if you can't they're screening the base they'll pack it sand it here's an interesting thing they didn't they've got to make that patio blend into the stairs right where blaine is working right now and so he had to do all of the math blaine to calculate that those pavers would hit exactly into those stairs just right but you can see the string lines he's got running those string lines show him exactly where the top of all his blocks are so he's not worried about going off as long as he stays true to those string lines and as they lay the bricks let's talk about that too they're going to be using what we call the click and drop method instead of just setting them down and bringing them in what they do is they hover the block above the sand and they make it click the block next to it and then release it and drop it down if they just brought the block in like you normally would do you're going to get a lot of unevenness in the blocks because it'll scrape a little bit of sand with it and create issues for you so it's called the click and drop bring it in hover it above the sand touch the paver release it and drop it you get get pretty fast at it after a while okay another thing this entire the sand was not compacted did you guys see that it was just screeded it's anywhere from three-quarter to one inch and since it's not compacted there will be a little bit of forgiveness in it almost dare i say around a quarter of an inch of tolerance and so we've got to actually leave everything just a titch high because when we're finally all said and done we're gonna pack the whole paper patio we got most of the path screeded out saying it's good to go we're gonna pop the pipes here and get that all filled in and then uh we're just gonna keep laying so we're gonna you know get up to the board street the rest of it out squeeze it out that way and rock and roll oh he's got the second second paper our second palette that's so easy to do because you can't see from his point he can't see where the ends of his tines are you just can't so you gotta feel look at it look at that little floaty but it's doing the it asb that could let's talk about polymeric sand because a couple people have asked and polymeric sand is very popular across the country it's not popular with us blaine actually doesn't prefer it blaine is kind of a master of pavers and at least in minnesota we get a lot of free style we get a lot of ground movement we don't get the big earthquakes like other parts of the country but we get so much ground movement that we have to compensate for that and so if we get the ground in one area moving just a little bit the frost moving it without moving the entire area evenly you can get that polymeric sand to pop up and you get these little weird little bits of polymeric sand sticking out of the ground here's what we got we got the whole path well leading back to these back steps here done now this whole walkway is only going to be three and a half feet wide so we went past that a couple of inches because we're gonna saw cut all that and we wanted to have you know a nice stable base we can walk the saw along on so it's not it's not gonna it's gonna look a whole lot better no we're just gonna leave it unfinished like that um so this is actually i want to use this project as an example of how we do different components of it just to maybe help some of you guys out let me know what you think of it we call this one the scooby series the scooby project and what i did is you haven't seen sam lately because him and blaine have been concentrating solely on this job it's our biggest most complicated job that we've actually tackled yet this year and the backyard is actually the easier part the front yard gets really complicated and so i want to just use this as maybe to help some of you guys on your own projects if you think that's cool idea let me know and what i'm going to also do is just release these back to back to back so you're not hunting and searching for them um so that's why you haven't seen sam and blaine recently they're still around trust me and that's all we've got for you on this one let me know what you think god bless go get them share this video and here's something cool that i want to start doing i should have said this right out of the gate when i release videos i'm going to release them monday wednesday and friday at six and i'm going to try to just stay on for the first hour as soon as the video's out if you guys have any questions or you've got anything you should know that within the first hour that i release that i'm going to try to be right there to answer all your questions and even if you have a question even if it's not within the first hour don't worry i'm going to come back and start revisiting these things uh you know later on as well just to try to hit on everybody's questions to help you guys out and that's all i got for today god bless go get them we'll see on another one hope you like this one

Channel: Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

Views: 284,923

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Keywords: how to install pavers, paver installation

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Length: 20min 40sec (1240 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 02 2020