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Re-lay Pavers and Adjust Height

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What happens here

Carefully place the pavers back onto the prepared sand bed. The creator demonstrates adjusting the height of individual pavers by adding small amounts of sand underneath them using a trowel. This ensures that when the pavers are compacted, they will be flush with the surrounding undisturbed areas. A wood block and a hammer are used to gently tap pavers into place, avoiding direct impact with a steel hammer which could crack them.

Goal: Install pavers onto the sand bed, ensuring proper height alignment

Tools and materials

  • Hammer — Tapping pavers into place (with wood block)
  • Trowel — Adding or removing small amounts of sand for height adjustment
  • Wood Block — Cushioning between hammer and paver during tapping
  • Sand — Adjusting paver height

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All right, we're resetting the pavers and I want to look at one side from the other. This side is just about a/4 inch high right here because when we go to tamp it down, it's going to tamp flush. This side is actually just a little bit too low at this point. So when we go to tamp this down, if we have these blocks perfectly flush, they're going to be below the level we want to be at. So Thomas is pulling these out and adding just a little bit of sand to raise them up. So when we tamp this down, we're exactly where we want to be at. [music] Never pound directly on your pavers with a steel mallet or hammer. It will crack and bust them. Just use a wood block as a cushion in between. Now, I started

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