Level Sand Bed (Large Area)

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