Edge, Cut, and Finish the Patio

nice perfect semicircle. What you'll notice is we have a soldier course. It gets a little tricky here. We have a soldier course that an existing soldier course that outlines the patio, but each one of those blocks are going to have to be cut. In fact, here's a great example. This unit right here, this side has been cut to make a perfect seam. And that's what we're going to continue to do. Now, one of the things you don't see is the PA edging. Okay, this goes in place and this keeps everything locked in place. So the the entire patio gets boom firmed up between the PA edging and as we're packing it everything settles in place. We're going to show you that next. We won't worry about it at this point. So I do want to point out you can see how intricate some of the cuts do get. Cutting the length of it is actually one of the easier portions of the job because we just run that string line on it and then we just zip snap that semi-ircular nice soft curve all at one time. We don't cut each individual block. We don't pull it off and cut it and then put it in place. We let it flow over and then cut it after the fact. But that soldier course, that's a different story. And when you have a long stretch, you may have to cut those to get a tight seam. And in this case, we anticipate it being every other block. And so we got we're to the point where after we're done laying the field, then we're going to come back in on this job and we're going to use our masonry sand, which is somewhere around here. I don't know where it went to. Um, and we're going to put that in all the joint spaces. And at that point, you can use poly sweep, which is a polymer sand, or you can use just regular sand. I prefer the regular sand. I've used poly sand in my own place. Um, I don't think the results are that much better. Personally, every area varies. Every job is different. There's times and places when you do want to use polymer sand. On this particular project, I'm going to recommend that we use just the regular sand and and uh pack it in place. So, we'll show you that process next. Okay, job is wrapped up just in time. Mother Nature's not cooperating. It's starting to rain on us. we we were able to get all of the finished grades established. And so you can see not only were we installing the PA patio, but then we had to match up the backyard, the grades in there with the new PA patio. So here it is done and complete. Now, the deck itself, the the timber deck is going to be uh extending on…