Installing Stone Steps and Flagstone Path

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What happens here

Carefully lay large flagstones to form the main steps, ensuring each stone is level and securely placed. For the curved path connecting the steps to the landscape, arrange smaller, irregularly shaped flagstones, fitting them together like a puzzle. Use a rubber mallet to gently tap the stones into their final position and a level to check for evenness. Fill the gaps between the flagstones with bedding gravel, ensuring a tight fit and then compact this material with a hand compactor.

Goal: Create functional and aesthetically pleasing stone steps and a flagstone path.

Tools and materials

Hand compactor — Compacting bedding gravel between stones
Irregular flagstones — Creating the curved path
Large flagstones — Forming the main step treads
Level — Checking the evenness and slope of the stones
Rakes — Spreading bedding gravel
Rubber mallet — Gently tapping stones into place for leveling
Safety glasses — Eye protection
Shovels — Spreading bedding gravel
Work gloves — Hand protection
Bedding gravel — Filling the joints between flagstones

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we're underneath the natural stones all right i don't like this music huh um oh sometimes you just gotta laugh at yourself um okay so i don't this is the so this is the part of the project that uh i was telling you about that looks just so beautiful when it's all said and done but let's just watch these guys work for a minute so they gotta be careful if they're gonna run a packer over i don't know if they're gonna or not because those small stones not the small stones but the big stones can actually break into the smaller stones so they gotta make sure that everything is perfectly level so i see in the background tim's actually hand placing the soil the bedding material in between the stones oh look at him he's putting the lathe in the level over the top top of the whole thing what kind of level that is i wonder if it's a stapilla or a cheap one okay so now he's got the bedding material intermix oh look at okay pad over the top of it hand compacting it so he doesn't break the edges on the stone boom good deal look at that see that was the such picture that he took and he showed me i don't know i think that's cool all right so look at see alex is in the background same thing man he's just making sure every single little detail is uh eyes dotted t's crossed this is actually a pretty cool video i think i don't know what you guys this is kind of fun man watching this like this just go go go i think this job took a week two weeks maybe two i don't know we don't we don't rush them and honestly we're just tim and i are not i don't know how to say this but we're not strict enough with the time on the job like it's more about doing it right than doing it in a day and a half and that's not technically good as a business owner i'm going to tell you right now because there's a lot of profits lost by doing it that way but there's a lot of pride gained by doing it that way and at this point i think uh tim is in the mind frame that

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