Paver Laying and Initial Compaction

we've got the sub base like this we've got our recycle class five perfectly level and then our one inch of sand is perfectly level but we do put just a tiny bit of a a kick just a tiny bit of a grain on top of that paper patio so that as water hits it that will shed as well now here we use the click and drop method and that's we don't just set the pavers down once we you'll see these guys never step on the sand this the screed sand is in place they never step on it and that's an important thing to note and in fact they don't even drag the pavers across the sand they set this the pavers down click it to the block and boom let go of it and once they've got this all laid out and in place then we go ahead and we pack the top layer we'll make sure that we're using 150 pound plate packer and if you look we've got this one by tomahawk has a rubber mat that comes with it and what this does is it levels off the playing field so to speak and it sets all of the papers down in place and now here's we're getting to the sand part of it and you guys ask me all the time you know why don't you use polymeric sand if blaine wanted to use polymeric sand we'd be using polymeric sand but my feeling is there's no benefit to polymeric sand effect i don't like polymeric sand but before we get on to why i don't like it look at the edging do you see that black edging right there that's a snap edging and we pound that in with steel stakes and the reason we pound that that snap edging in that black edging specifically designed to