If you want to use pavers to build a patio, you'll probably hear the advice that laying pavers over dirt is a mistake. It's true — you should level the ground and add sand and gravel over the ...

We’re talking about removing around 7 inches of dirt, and this makes ... curves or straight lengths of the patio. The final step before laying down the pavers is to spread an inch of sand ...

Individually, bricks are small, so you can lay a brick patio piecemeal at your leisure ... but a general ballpark is $4 to $6 per square foot. Concrete pavers are tough, low maintenance and ...

For the base of that 100-square-foot patio, for instance, you would lay down ... grass, dirt and so forth to a depth that will accommodate the gravel and the sand bed beneath the pavers, also ...

The biggest benefit of laying your own patio or paving in general is also the most obvious ... It’s highly likely that there will be some residual dirt or condensation on or between the stones in ...