Initial Seating and Adjustment of Pavers

What happens here

As pavers are laid, workers use a rubber mallet or paver hammer to make initial adjustments and seat them firmly into the bedding layer. The video shows a worker kneeling and rhythmically tapping individual pavers with a mallet, ensuring they are tightly fitted against adjacent pavers and settled correctly into the sand or screenings. This step helps to achieve a relatively flush surface before the final, more aggressive compaction is performed using a mechanical plate compactor.

Goal: Firmly seat pavers into the bedding layer and make minor adjustments