Do you mean that each flagstone would be set in DG? That would be a never ending, crunchy scatter mess.

That's not really a pattern. It's just random according to the shape of each stone.

You should take a trip to Clark's Rockery in Hayward if it is safe to do so and look at their pallets of rocks. And their pricing. They might be able to identify the stuff in the photo, too. (They probably sold it in the first place!)

A pallet of flagstone weighs about 4000 pounds. And depending on its thickness, will cover from 75 to 150 sf per ton. The cost will be dependent on the type of rock and whether it was quarried or a natural flag but $1500 is not out of line for a full pallet.

Yes, I think you could use gravel as the separator for the larger stones. It would be more harmonious if the larger stones match. Be sure to put down a weed cloth first to prevent weeds.

@Yardvaark For example, excavate six inches in the patio. Put down 2 inches base rock and compact. Place down 4 inches of decomposed granite. If the patio is 500 square feet, then the middle area with flag stone would be about 150 square feet. The edging might be another 100 square feet. The space between the edging and the center area would be just DG. Of course the DG would fill between the flagstone and be brought up to the level of the flagstone and compressed.

The only examples I found on Youtube were people using DG as the layer below a full flagstone patio, then filling the gaps between flagstone with DG. I did not find anyone doing a hybrid patio like I describe.

@Fori I am just looking for the name of the flagstone.

@gardengal What is a typical minimum order size? Half pallet?

@Virgil Carter Fine Art Does weed cloth actually stop weeds? In every case I have ever seen, seeds fall down through the granite and simply grow on top of the weed cloth. It seems like a complete waste of time and money to me.

DIY.

@User The photo i am showing is the installed stone. Obviously the installer cut them to size for the installation.

That said, no one would be giving such a beautiful granite pattern away for free. The seller got $700 for a pallet of these in less than 60 minutes.

Your post is convincing me that even if I could get these for free, I probably cannot afford a high-quality installation.

Westes, you really should go look at what is available locally. I think you'll be inspired.

(That does not look like countertop remnants.)

"You’ve never seen a stone yard dumpster. Full of scraps leftover from counter fabrication, just like that."

I think this may be a bit of a throw-away statement. Not all stone yards are fabricators....in fact, I don't know of any local stone yards that fabricate anything more than some custom cuts on large slabs!! They just sell rock and stone products. They don't have any scrap dumpsters.

@User No, the seller was not a genius. The seller bought full pallets of material and installed them, and the photo you see is the installed flagstone after cutting. What the seller got rid of was the full flagstone pieces, on the original retail pallet, and the photo of that is not shown.

@gardengal48 I think someone should write a blog post "The Myth of the Stone Yard Dumpster" to go with the other "myth" articles you shared. :)

I am happy to go combing through dumpsters for hundreds of square feet of usable granite slabs. If someone wants to tell me where this mythical dumpster lives, I am pretty sure when I get there it will have a line of people already going through it.

psst....granite countertop remnants will make for a slippery patio. :P

@live_wire_oak those small scrap pieces look nothing like the originals that I posted. The pieces in my photo are very large slabs with irregular edges and shapes. The pieces in your photo are tiny rectangular shapes, quite obviously small leftover sections of cutting a rectangular slab.