Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: My Landscaping Journey - Do you know a good paving guy? 281Apr 30, 2014 10:51 pm Following We're waiting for our landscape quote at the moment. I'm a little scared. Was considering doing it myself but I know if I do it'll probably take me 5 years (I have about 150m of retaining walls to do + 400m2 of turf + 40m2 of paving + gardens). Re: My Landscaping Journey - Do you know a good paving guy? 282May 01, 2014 9:16 pm Matt1 Following We're waiting for our landscape quote at the moment. I'm a little scared. Was considering doing it myself but I know if I do it'll probably take me 5 years (I have about 150m of retaining walls to do + 400m2 of turf + 40m2 of paving + gardens). Wow that's a lot of work! Make sure you are sitting down before you look at the quote. Re: My Landscaping Journey - Back Yard Paving - FINALLY!!!! 283Apr 08, 2016 11:32 am After what seems like an eternity, (a change of jobs, and lack of funds will do that to you) I have finally scraped together enough to finish off the long awaited paving in the back yard.
These are going down next week. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: My Landscaping Journey - Backyard Paving - New Pics 11/4 284Apr 12, 2016 9:20 am Big day yesterday
Before Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ After. A little bit more to go then its onto the roadbase and compacting Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: My Landscaping Journey- excavation and drainage pics 12/ 285Apr 12, 2016 5:58 pm Excavation complete
Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Drainage roughed in Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ and my Road Base turned up Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: My Landscaping Journey- excavation and drainage pics 12/ 287Apr 13, 2016 10:59 am cat_dunc Ohh in big bags, that's a good idea. Ours was just dumped on our front lawn! When I first started my landscaping I had them dump my supplies as it was easier but this time I needed to keep some level of control and neatness of the Road Base as I didn't want to destroy my lawn etc. Some places charge a bit extra to deliver in bags. I've used my supplier a number of times and he didn't charge me any extra to bag deliver vs bulk dump. Re: My Landscaping Journey - Screed Pics 14/4/2016 289Apr 14, 2016 10:51 am Almost ready for the pavers to go down
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Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ and here is the transition from paving to side lawn. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ It rained today and I'm happy to report my drainage works and the water all runs towards the drains. There is a fair bit of salt coming out of the pavers as they were freshly made so I need to wait a bit before I seal them. Very happy with the result. My to-do list now contains only 2 items. 1. Stepping stone path down the narrow side of the house. Going to use the left over pavers from the back yard for this. 2. Re-turf the backyard around the Clothes Line. (approx 30 sqm) Re: My Landscaping Journey - Completed Paving Pics 17/4/2016 294Apr 18, 2016 11:12 am cat_dunc That looks unreal! Well done Thanks cat, I'm really happy with the way it turned out. Its given us a further 45sqm of usable area which is fantastic. Re: My Landscaping Journey - Completed Paving Pics 17/4/2016 295Apr 18, 2016 1:42 pm Looks so professional! Re: My Landscaping Journey - Completed Paving Pics 17/4/2016 297Apr 19, 2016 11:29 am Laying the paving is not the hard part. Prepping the site is the back braking part and setting the levels for the sand screed is the most important part to ensure water flows where you want it. My area was 3.6m wide so I made sure I had a 15mm fall away from the house and also from my block wall toward the centre-line where I put my drain.
I used 3/4 inch square aluminum lengths to screed against. Prior to shoveling in the sand I had made 2 marks on the house and the block wall that were the top and bottom finish heights of the paving. I shoveled in the sand and raked it to a rough level higher than the top finished paving height mark. Then I set my bars in place along the house and the block wall leveling to the lower mark. ie the bottom of the paver. Then I set the centre bar from the timber retaining wall to the drain. The centre bar is leveled lower by 15mm to that of the bars along the house and the block wall to create fall to the centre from each side and it also lays lower at the drain end than that of the timber retaining wall end of the bar. (this was the hardest bar to get right) Once I was happy with the positioning of the bars I used the screed to remove the excess sand leaving a perfectly smooth surface that produced the appropriate gradients where I wanted them. I did the screed in 2 parts. House to centre drain and Block Wall to centre drain. The process of screeding is a bit of an art and I found you need to use the leading edge of the screed closest to you at an angle to get the sand moving and then roll your wrists down at the end which produces just the right amount of compaction giving you the smoothed out sand. This pic with the arrows show the direction of the fall I achieved with the aluminium square tubes. I also mixed in a bit of concrete powder in with the sand just to get that little bit extra of stability Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: My Landscaping Journey - Completed Paving Pics 17/4/2016 298Apr 21, 2016 6:57 pm Well done KID Thanks for the very informative thread. I am planning to do backyard paving myself and what you have achieved is certainly very inspiring. Did you compact it again after laying the pavers? Re: My Landscaping Journey - Completed Paving Pics 17/4/2016 299Apr 21, 2016 10:15 pm kabaw Well done KID Thanks for the very informative thread. I am planning to do backyard paving myself and what you have achieved is certainly very inspiring. Did you compact it again after laying the pavers? Thanks, No I didn't run the whacker over them after laying them. They were freshly made pavers (wet cast less than a week old) so didn't want to risk breaking any etc. plus I was confident in the prep compacting of the road base so I didn't feel like I needed to compact again. Re: My Landscaping Journey - Completed Paving Pics 17/4/2016 300May 21, 2016 6:12 pm Used the left over pavers and made a stepping stone path from the laundry door to the back yard
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