Pavestone Patio

As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm spending some of my time off this month building a pavestone patio behind the house. Basically, you mark off the area, dig up the grass & soil 6 inches deep, lay down base gravel, compact the gravel with a rented plate compacter, lay down sand, and lay 1'x1' pavestones.

We're planning of creating a patio that's approx. 260 square feet, so the material costs ended up being around $1000. Fortunately, my parents had donated $1000 to us towards a home improvement project as a housewarming gift last year. Compare that to $3000+ if we had a contracter do the work, so it'll definitely be worth it to do it ourselves. (assuming we do it correctly)

The challenge is going to be the sheer volume of materials that we'll have to move. Literally, tons of material.

5 tons of gravel
2 tons of sand
3.5 tons of paver stone

And we need to do it all with shovels and a wheelbarrow... Either I'm going to get really buff, or I'm gonna herniate a disk in my back.