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Select and Implement Border Course Pattern

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How to Build a Patio - Ultimate DIY Installation Guide (EVER MADE) for patio, driveway or decks

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Ever to do they part? Phil, show me the difference between a soldier course and a sailor course. Okay, so we have a couple options on how to border this patio. The way we have it laid out now is called a sailor course. This is where we take the PA and we set it parallel to the field pattern which is inner part of the patio. So sailor course running along its length. If I were to take one piece of this PA, let's say this rectangle for instance, and set it up and run a line of rectangles set perpendicular to this field, that would be called soldier course. So soldier course set perpendicular, a sailor course set parallel. Each of them you have to figure out ahead of time what you're going to do because it affects your material quantities. All right. Another fun thing that you can do with the soldier or sailor course is change the color. You can highlight a color from the house. You can bring it down to the patio or you can pull the color out of the patio and make a solid color on the outside of this. It really makes your patio area pop. And if you want to define different areas in the same patio, let's say you want a central seating area and then you want a pathway going off, you just put the sailor course around the areas that you want to define so that you can differentiate one spot from another spot. All right. So,

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