Preparations for Laying Garden Pavers
Whether you are planning on installing garden paving yourself or hiring a landscape artist, it’s important to have a basic idea on how it is done. Some useful knowledge about preparing your garden for garden pavers has been compiled below.
Firstly, an important thing to keep in mind is that the soil beneath the garden pavers has to be virgin soil. This means that it has to have not been touched. Garden pavers that are installed on a foundation that is not stable will result in an uneven product. If the materials also is not installed properly they might end up moving, which can cause accident in addition to being unsightly.
An example of a touched or disturbed soil is soil that has had fill added to it. You wouldn’t want to lay your pavers or patio on this sort of decomposing soil, would you?
However, there are ways to work with disturbed soil. Firstly, load the soil, about six inches deep. This presses the soil like it hasn’t been disturbed. Next is to take away the disturbed soil and replace it with crushed stone. The depth of this particular modification in the soil must be six to eight inches deep. Then add crushed stones or aggregate about five-inch thick. Then place a layer of sand on the topmost part of those stones.
The last step is to lay the pavers. Make sure to consider the slope of the pavers so that the direction where the water will drain is not towards the house where it will cause more problems. This can be followed by adding polymeric sand to the joints which will harden to avoid problems with weeds.
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