Hi All
This is a marvellous idea a forum on Paving.
Okay. My Brother in Law is a brick paver, however he is also an alcoholic so everything he tells me I try and double or treble check. He is telling me I don't need yellow sand under my pavers as I can lay directly on the black sand (WA).
Previously I did that in Currambine, and it worked okay up there. However I have moved to Victoria Park and the sand here is completely different. The black sand here seems to have no 'guts' to it at all. My Wheelbarrow bogs in this stuff when it is just over half filled with sand. At Currambine I could load the Wheelbarrow up to overfill and still wheel it around no issue. So I suspect this black sand will not compact properly, in which case I will need yellow sand. Opinions or test methods please.
In this paving project I have three boxes formed between the wall of the house and raisesd garden beds. Again at Currambine we had a similar arrangement however when it really rained (and it does sometimes in WA...okay about twice a year if we are lucky) and my soakwell couldn't get rid of the volume the paving used to flood. This time I thought it would be nice to have a gap around the edge of the paving which I could backfill with a decorative stone. This would create an interesting border and simultaneously act as a drainage point between the pavers and the raised garden beds (yes I am falling away from the house). I tried to set up the limestone retaining for the garden bed to enable a consistent gap around the paving without cutting (as much as practical anyway). This hasn't worked out as the block dimensions limited what I could and couldn't do. So currently according to my spreadsheet the design ends up with 50mm gap between the house and the paving and a different gap down the side and a different gap along the back of the paving area. I think this will look a little dicky and wondered what others thought. I also wondered what you may consider to be a solution which minimises cutting.
I have attached my Spreadsheet however it is in MS Office 2002 format so to get it into an image I have had to convert through three different programs, hopefully it is readable.
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