How NOT to build a paver patio. Why they FAIL and how to do a DIY repair on landscaping. 4 k video

we're on new site today and what's happening with the patio is it's settling in some areas especially along the wall here so we got fixed that so what we're doing is peeling it back to where its back to about the normal site bringing or sanded probably some class five and along here because it sucked so bad bringing it all back up and putting it back together like a big puzzle so in theory that will work but in practicality what Sam and the crew are going to find out is that a lot of times theory doesn't work in real life so right here you can see them very carefully peeling apart the patio the same way that it went together in small sections and small repairs that works amazing that's fine but when you get into bigger areas like we have right here it's not going to work for a reason that they're going to discover in just a few moments actually let's skip forward to that right now so this whole end of this patio was sunk to right up about here so what we did this patio is kind of a it's a goofy shape there's a decent amount of cuts in it it's a random pattern but what we did here was peel everything up and slide it directly back so that the patterns the same all the blocks are gonna go back in the same place so once we get the grade fixed and all that along here we can take all of these and just essentially slide them all back and it will go together all nice and neat so you can really kind of see them that's a pretty good V going on through here where the water was just sitting through here we got some random low spots through here to that we got a fix so there's a dip in here but some some spots that definitely settled pretty good but overall snap not too bad okay so what's going on is Sam and the crew are going to find out that he's almost he's actually by isolating that area and attempting to repair it he's creating two different planes so the patio has noticeable noticeably sunk in that area and the patio comes down this way by having this sharp line of repair work he's gonna have two patio two planes in the patio and that's not going to work and what he's doing right here works out fine they are they removed the block to put brand-new class five in place that and compact that now you might be you might be tempted to just fill it all up with sand and that's the worst thing you can do you only want one inch of sand when you get over an inch of sand your individual pavers will tip when you put pressure on them they'll tip so they've removed the sand they put new class v in all this washed out along the front of the wall it was like a leg up v essentially like going up that way so what we had to do was when new class v into the existing class v so it started it out about two or three inches and made it into nothing you put the pipes down this is the this is the height right here and all of the the patios you have to sit at because these ones here sitting on the stairs alright let's pause it right there right there you can see the class five is a Titch low and that's to leave enough room for sin if you look at this area you can see where the class five doesn't reach to the top of the block and that's not very much sand we put in the sand is literally just enough to level the blocks it's not base material that you want to fill all the way up it's just leveling material the patios today because these ones here sitting on the stairs okay so what happened now is they noticed that they couldn't just do the repair because it was just too uneven between the two so they ended up peeling a larger section of the patio back then what was isolated or what was needed just in the repair zone and they had to almost triple the area that they needed to do the repair work in because they've got to blend they've got to make this patio feel like it's all one patio and not two separate patios that have been connected together and that's what you see them doing right here [Music] and now before we go to a bar I want you to look on the ground next to Blaine you're gonna see a critical piece of equipment it's not an expensive piece of equipment it's a pipe if you look that pipe is what we use as our guide for how much sand to put in we never vary how much sand the reason is is it's easy if you put them on stakes and then you don't have your class 5 perfectly level you may get sand that goes to an inch and a half or 2 inches thick by using the pipe and just the straightest 2x4 that we can find we make sure that we always have between a half inch to 3/4 of an inch of Sam [Music] all right so another thing to point out is that board there's nothing really special about that board except for the fact that we've actually cut the board to knotch right over the top of the pavers so the board slides over the rail or the pipe on one side and on the other side the board actually rests over the top of the paver so we're using the existing paver deck we've got on one side we've got the post or the pipe on the other side and that becomes the paint the existing paver deck and that pipe together become our new screed rail it's a very simple system but it's an easy way to blend an existing patio over the top of a repair section and make sure that everything flows together really well [Music] so you're gonna notice that we've also given up at this point on trying to duplicate that pattern exactly the way that it came out what I'm talking about is in the beginning of this video you notice that we had peeled apart the patio rebuilt it and then we were going to just reinstall it so that we had to make zero cuts and on a small area that works but when you start to get into these bigger areas it becomes too time costly and so what the guys are doing at this point is they are reusing the existing blocks they're reusing the existing pattern but the blocks aren't going back in in the exact same way that they came out what this might lead to is making a few extra cuts at the very end of the job meaning that for them to pull this off successfully they will need potentially need a few extra blocks to cut to be able to do that we've got to finish this paver patio up the same way we would do a brand new installation and that's by packing the top of it by packing the top of it we've settled everything in and that also locks everything together now this was an old patio that got repaired and the old patio used standard joints and you guys can upgrade in this might be a great thing to offer your customers upgrading with polymeric sand polymeric sand is going to last about one to two possibly three years typical joints and needs to be refreshed once a year sometimes twice a year [Music] so Todd found something kind of neat this whole area here it was sinking so we're you know gonna raise it up like the rest of it he pulled these first two bricks out and there is nothing under two right about here so these whole two rows are just being supported by the friction fit of all the bricks book and that's it good probably good four inches more from the top of the block and Sprite about six to the bottom here in the front so if you have a patio that butts right up to a retaining wall this is very common because you're not actually supposed to compact right up behind a retaining wall you're supposed to actually leave about three feet and this becomes problematic when a paver patio which needs a hundred percent compaction putts right up to a retaining wall it's not uncommon also another thing that can create problems like this is animals they'll dig and burrow underneath the paver patio and create their own void spaces so but there is a way to fix and repair this it's not the end of the world you have to use hand compaction behind a retaining wall meaning you still have to compact behind it because if you let that go it's going to create problems down the road but one of the things that you need to look at in this area is you've seen that pipe when they installed that swimming pool that's behind the guys while they're working whoever installed that pipe didn't compact around their pipe and that created the void spacing which created the settlement issues which created the patio failure when you give a mouse a cookie and so on and so forth so we've taken the time to compact just using light hand hand compaction equipment we can use a basing hammer you can use a packing plate you don't want to use motorized compaction equipment behind your retaining wall because you can blow out that retaining wall and then not only are you repairing a patio you could also be potentially all right so one of the beautiful things about a paver patio is the ability to repair small sections now this same patio was made out of concrete what might have happened is it might have cracked in this area and developed this ugly spiderweb and the only way to replace that is to cut the concrete out and start all over again and you'll never color match that with a paver patio you can peel apart a small dip in your patio this is we're trying to remember that pattern actually works good on small areas it works fine on a bigger area and might become frustrating but in a case like this we're gonna break our own rule we're not going to peel the patio apart then peel the sand apart to get down to that base layer like we did in the larger repair zone we can isolate the repair just to the sand area now I know I said don't go over an inch of sand but when you have a very small area if you go on inch to maybe an inch and a quarter to possibly push it to an inch and a half you can in a very small area I don't recommend doing it on a very big area but in a small zone it'll save you from peeling the sand down getting down to the class v putting class-five back in then putting the sand back in place to do that would require a much larger zone so you can see on small patch and repair jobs you can break your own rule but I don't want you guys to get lazy here's where it happens as a lot of times guys get lazy and they'll use the same technique on a much larger area and it's really not good because it can create the individual pavers sinking shifting and moving when you use too much sand base that's why we try to stick to that rule but we also have to weigh the cost versus time benefit of using that rule on small patch and repair jobs like one right here I will go down to Fr so on small patch and repair jobs you seen that 2x4 come out that's how we blend everything together we want that patch to blend with the entire patio around that and so we'll use that board to make sure that everything flows together it's just one of our little cheats ways that we do it and I hope this videos helped you guys out today and let me know what you think of it in the comments down below that's all we've got for you today if there's anything specific you guys want to see like how to repair retaining walls or how to do other projects like this let me know because I make these videos for you guys off from 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