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Lay Paver Tiles & Fill Joints

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What happens here

With the compacted sub-base in place, a thin layer (approximately 3/4 inch) of granite chips is spread as the final leveling base for the pavers. The high-end granite paver tiles are then carefully laid onto this prepared leveling base. Due to their size and weight, a specialized air lifter is utilized to pick up and precisely place each tile, minimizing physical strain and ensuring accurate positioning. After all tiles are laid, polymeric sand is swept into the joints between the pavers. This sand, when wet, hardens to lock the pavers in place, preventing weed growth and insect intrusion. The patio is then compacted once more to settle the pavers and sand, and finally lightly misted with water to activate the polymeric sand.

Goal: Securely install the paver tiles and stabilize the patio surface.

Tools and materials

  • Air Lifter — Lifting and placing heavy paver tiles, Broom Unknown
  • Granite Chips

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All right. Good morning, everybody. I'm back from, as you can see, my hands all banged up and I got scars all over. I got mauled by a dog over the weekend, so that sucked. But I'm okay. Fine. Everything's good. But yeah, we're laying down these giant granite slabs. We got this airlifter we rented from company down in Burnsville. Well, to lift these things cuz they are like chunks of granite and they are heavy and trying to pick them up by hand really sucks. They're They're extremely heavy, but I'm doing what I can, especially with me being injured. But I'm going to g go through grease get up. Well, so I'll probably set you on a time lapse for that. But yeah, then we have all of our ro our chip down over here. Whatot I I'm tired. I had a long night. I'm going to go grace. All right. Sorry, guys. I was going to put it up on time lapse putting down all this stuff, but I completely spaced it and my hand's pretty beat up. trying to block out that pain. It just forgoes everything else. So yeah. All right, let's see if the camera works. I don't know. But the patio is

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