Our Labor day weekend was spent finishing our patio. It turned out great! We all worked so very hard. Saturday we spent 12 hours (in the heat) laying all the pavers. On Monday we put down the Polymeric sand and vibrated it all down with a compactor and returned the leftover bricks. It will be so nice to enjoy. We are so proud of Bennett, Garren, and Bailey. They worked so hard and had such good attitudes. It was funny when Bailey came home from school on Friday she walked through the door and went upstairs and I heard tears. I ran up thinking something must have happened. She was on the floor. I asked what was wrong and she said... "Why do we have to work? It is suppose to be a holiday, EVERYONE else doesn't have to work".
I hope no one else had to work on the Holiday. LOL
The Pavers have just arrived on Friday. I had to run to get a book and missed the delivery driver. He left. Bryant went to the store and he happened to still be there Bryant talked them into reloading and redelivering the pavers. He followed Bryant home and we got our pavers for the holiday weekend. We wouldn't have been able to do it if he couldn't return till Tuesday.
MORE SHOVELING!!!
Bennett used the brick saw to make all the cuts. He became very good at using the saw.
Whitney and Brady loved to play in the sand pile.
Bryant laying the edging of the patio
We also had to haul the 3 pallets of brick by wheelbarrows to the back yard (900 bricks)
laying bricks. The sand had to be secreted 1 inch thick on top of the decomposed granite base we had already put in.
Hauling more bricks.
Bryant spraying our patio. We put polymer sand in all the cracks and used a vibrator to set the bricks into the sand. Then Bryant sprayed to patio with water to set in the sand (it is like a concrete when dry)
With all the left over sand Bryant made the kids a sandbox.
The finished patio
This is the shed pad. We also made this pad and eventually it will have a shed on it. (the kit has been on our driveway for 6 months)
Eventually it will have a shed that looks like the above picture.
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