Prepare and Screed the Chip Stone Setting Bed

You may be wondering why we're using this as our setting bed. This is 3/8 chip stone. You might see a lot of people using sand as their setting bed, which can be fine in certain applications. We prefer this because a couple reasons. It's going to be free draining, so you're not going to have issues with your joint material. You might have heard the term polyhaze. It's a very common problem with poly sands. That's from trap moisture. This is not going to allow that. This is also a lot more sturdy. So, you won't have migration of your setting bed coming out of your edge restraint. That's a common problem we see a lot with edges failing and pavers starting to sink because sand is washing out. 3/8 chip stone on top of a 3/4 clean stone base. It's how we like to do it. More you know.