Correct sand for brick edging?
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Comments (4)You need to use "crushed gravel" for the base, tamped down, thoroughly wet it down a once or twice over 2 to 3 days - it needs to set up a firm base. Then add paver sand, screed it level or with a slight slope for drainage and wet it down thoroughly - a good rain is great - and let it settle. Of course, some of the sand will fall down into gravel and that's fine. Its important to let this set and settle for 2-3 days. Fine tune the surface and lay your paving stones. I used a level as I went along laying pavers. In your case it may be the size of the gravel that caused so much settling of the sand. I would just get more paver sand and redo the screeding, let it settle with the help of water and go from there. Good luck. Linda...See Morebrick edge
Comments (4)FWIW the rick-rack edging is fine anywhere I'm not likely to trip or kneel on it while I'm working. Maybe at the top of a wall (lol). If you were using the bricks as a mowing strip before, and you're fairly sure that the shape of the garden is what you want, you could, perhaps, install concrete mowing strips. I look at them and think, 'How tidy!' but I'm not sure how I'd accommodate the big dumpings of compost that I add, and that change the height of the bed. With the loose bricks I use I can add another course and keep the soil in place. If you weren't as exuberant with the compost - just the usual bucketload for a new plant - then a permanent edge might work well for you. However, if you have a fairly freewheeling style - the bricks do have the benefit of making it very easy to change direction, or track a burrowing weed to its end; something much harder to do when the bounds are fixed. Sometimes laying them on a bed of sand over a well-compacted soil, tamping them down, watering lightly to let them settle, etc, can give you a beautiful edge - until you dig a little close and disrupt the underlying soil. At which point you can end up with a subsidence. If I didn't have better things to do I could consider having a traditional grass edge and cut it neatly when I trim the lawn. Yeah, right!...See MoreSanding: Hand random orbital sander or large vibrating sand
Comments (9)I have to disagree about the Bosch RO sander really sucking. I have 2 Bosch RO's and they're actually quite good. They are WAY BETTER than Porter Cable, DeWalt, or Ryobi, which I have also owned in the past. There are many different models of RO available from every manufacturer. Check the speed of the motor. They're rated by orbits per minute. 12,000 OPM is good. I would not get one rated for less. The Bosch models I own are the 3107 DVS and the 1295 D. The 3107 is really powerful, it would work great for sanding a deck. The 1295 D also has nice power, but it's a bit smaller and lighter. I use it for finish sanding. Neither model leaves swirls as long as you let the tool do the work. Swirls happen when the tool is bogged down by the operator using excessive force which prevents the motor from orbiting randomly. The sanding pad needs to spin freely to leave a nice finish without swirls....See MoreMy Paver Sand Washed Out
Comments (1)"I was sure to level the bricks as they sloped in one direction." What does this mean? Since they are an edging to parts of the yard, they will flow with the grade of the parts of the yard that they are "edging." The bricks have settled to a level lower than what they are supposed to be? They are supposed to be flush with the gravel, but now are lower? Is there someplace that has emptied of sand and is now a rut? I don't quite understand all the details of your explanation, but there is little you can likely do but reset the brick if they have shifted out of position. This would not entail re-excavating all of the base, but picking the brick up and adding sand below and retampling.I can't see why you need polymeric. Just need to protect from erosion until grass knits back in. Is water being funneled to wash in line with this work? Do something to redirect, or cover the exposed soil strip with burlap pinned to the ground, or something along those lines if you cannot keep water away. One probably needs to see the larger area to be more helpful. Not to throw a wrench in the works, since I have no idea of the rest of your yard, but the brick edging as a mowing strip would look a lot better if you ran the pavers side by side -- 8" wide -- as in a sailor course, rather than end to end (3 1/2"" wide). It would be a more in-scale element for something that is sized for a yard. What is going to hold the brick from moving sideways relative to its line of run?...See MoreUser
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