if you are looking for one-on-one help, I do offer phone/email consultation services as well as site consultation services. On the right hand side is modified gravel, or d.o.t road base. Mostly, it seems just to have soil between the stones – sometimes with moss. Concrete is your best bet.

Now picture that scenario with a rigid joint. Every time it rains, screening from my joints splatters into my stone and patio furniture. Cobblestones were probably laid on a bed of sand on top of that concrete, so it might be best to lift the cobbles, re-lay on stone dust, fit ’em tighter, fill gaps with stone dust. Worms? In a few places where pressure washing has removed the soil, I filled the joints with the rock screening you recommend. is this a bad practice? Get down to bare dirt a few inches below where you want the level of your path to be. Definitely avoid the landscape fabric. So I use a 4 foot level.

If you do find my advice useful, then please do share some of my work on whatever social media you use, especially photos of my dry stone sculpture: https://www.devineescapes.com/dry-stone-sculpture/. Jim. But the real complaint that I have against this gravel glue epoxy whatever we’re talking about, the real complaint is that it just does not look good. https://www.devineescapes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/zzz.jpg.
The flagstone are mainly grey from age. The cut down the sides and compacted "A gravel" at the bottom, but nothing more. Its looks like a flat matte color where there was poly sand and where no poly sand you see a beautiful high gloss high color finish…….this is the best analogy I can think of.

Also, it is unnecessary. Thank you for taking the time to post this for the world to see. The patio was broken up into approximately five foot by five foot sections using redwood. Truthfully our joints are a bit wider than you suggest. I re-rake the kennels every few days to keep the coverage even. Here’s an article about removing and replacing the stone dust in-between your flagstone.

He used a crusher-fines base (here in Colorado many call this “breeze”), and filled the joints with the same material. By dirt, you must mean “soil”. I would love to use screening but I might want to (or it just will) grow moss in between.

I was wondering… I have put all my random flagstone down on the screening. Once I was satisfied that I had a smooth, hard, flat surface, I topped it off with pea gravel, raked it into a uniform thin layer, and tamped that too. Hi Devin — I have a bunch of slate (and some stone) paths, patios and stairways, a lot of which I have built, and while they are largely stable the crushed stone I used in the joints (which matches the slates) sometimes washes out of the steeper areas especially on the two long stair paths. Thanks again! Hose the joints down, on shower setting, sweep off the excess, if you want you can use blower to remove more excess stone dust. One last question on screenings – is this something Home Depot carries?

I’d also heard that for years and years from fellow gardeners and landscape professionals, but I decided last year to test it out under a gravel mulch in the backyard, just for my own peace of mind. Solution–fit tighter and fill with larger sized material. Question: contractors want to use polymeric filler or some combo of filler.

Thank you for the details. Because of its many practical and decorative uses pea gravel landscaping is becoming more and more popular especially for corporations, schools and most building facilities. You need river-washed rounded gravel – pea gravel as it’s sometimes called. Pingback: DIY Garden Paths And Backyard Walkway Ideas | The Garden Glove. https://www.devineescapes.com/flagstone-what-to-use-sand-cement-or-gravel/. Hi I have dog kennel for my dog and I was wondering .Should I use pea gravel or cement I wont something easy to clean. Weed 2007, FWIW, I would forget the pebble idea for a dog run. Another material I had considered was decomposed granite, which I recall seeing a lot in California. Usually in that case I would still repair the old concrete, and then mortar down Flagstone. I think I need to do some project in my yard very soon like…and I feel like it might possibly require the use of a tamper. Just hose the patio down real well. If you wish to pressure wash a patio that has screenings for the joints, then you will have to sweep the material back into place after pressure washing. Also want to do a seat wall in it. It’s been working for me. It will crack. Or falling matter from nearby trees can help cause that. Weed and ant proof. Void forms–stone sinks–solid joint sits above void–joint cracks. Stone dust is the way to go for most professionally installed flagstone patios. Pea gravel provides countless opportunities to transform your landscape into the one that is beautiful and easy to maintain.

There’s no type of soap that will help, wirebrush does nothing at all. Here’s the quick story: I’ve reclaimed enough of the small pieces from borders created by the previous owner. God’s peace. Or any Masonry supply place. Send it to me via email, or post it here. You may be familiar with it as a stomach medicine. Take your time and get out what you can. I have pea gravel in the entire enclosure. As such, I wouldn’t really consider a dry lay option on top of old concrete unless the customer very much wanted it, and unless the flagstone itself were going to have a really tight fitting joints for example if it was going to be a pattern cut, square and rectangular flagstones with minimal joints then, if the walkway is pitched strong enough there really is not much way for a very much in order to get down there in the first place.

Will this work to fill the cracks of should I attempt to find a finer material? Repair the flagstone. The bricks are on now stable 1-2″ “dry” sand beds. Btw I am also in NEPA. Do you have any comments on how to best drain this so it doesn’t continue to settle after i install the flagstones? A bit of a philosophical question, really. You want lots of pointy edges that will interlock, and gravel heavy enough that it’ll stay put during one of our Texas downpours. Great! Yes, the material I saw at the quarry very close to my house was just the very fine dust.

You never want to use mortar, if the foundation is dry laid. Life happens. So fun, so tiring!). Add another substrate like sand, dry cement (not concrete), stone dust. Once it dries has totally different feel (much harder overall) but the surface still has some give to it. Will water flow over the flagstones to the drain with dry set stones, or do i need to do something totally different? Can you help me understand the difference between decomposed granite and screenings? Your plants look great too.

That would take a bit of my time and consultation fees would be applicable. Either way, best of luck to you on your flagstone repair! But here’s the problem: polymeric sand fails….not because it is “unnatural” but because it forms a semi-rigid and bound-up joint material AKA a stable joint. Greetings! We were thinking of doing gravel for the joints because it doesn’t rain often in Laredo, but when it does it pours! A ton and a half should work, but buy two tons if you’d rather have extra than have to make a second order. Fly me out there and I’ll make em fit nice, get some local ahem pro to do it right or maybe try some ground cover planting. Also, in your article about using gravel, can you use AB3 or Crusher Run? I particularly appreciate the advice on killing any weeds that get in there with hot water, vinegar or pulling them by hand vs using Round UP.

Sweep in, hose down on shower setting, repeat….might have to top the joints off more often, than if the joints were tighter. I am happy to offer all of these DIY flagstone articles for free. ", Here is a link that might be useful: Stabilizer Solution. Bummer. The patio comes off the basement door and is surround on three sides by 4-5′ retaining walls, and had a 4″ drain in the pave patio…it was sinking especially around the drain. One on one help is available. Red stone dust will be harder to find, and will cost more. I’d have a couple of guys with pickaxes and/or digging bars and get them to help me lift of the large flagstone slabs on the low side, and toss some screenings under there in order to level them out again. Allow the stone duts to dry and bond then come back use a non-shrinking exterior grout bewteen the flagstones…..sound good?….Thanks for any input, Frank. We do have what is called “shaker sand” which is a combination of sharp sand with some pea gravel mixed in (pea gravel that was smaller than normal and was “screened out” from the normal pea gravel. As pea gravel is a loose fill material it can be displaced with foot or vehicle traffic, and other physical movement. You’re the best source for flagstone info on the net.

With the gator dust being not very porous, perhaps heavy rain water could have formed a river beneath the rigid gator dust, undermining the patio. Your decomposed granite looks like dirt? Seen it before and everyone’s gift is unique. I can”t dig down deep enough anywhere in the area I need to put the patio due to the tree roots everywhere. I’m glad that you appreciate my work. Devin, Thanks for all your thoughtful advise.
Just sweep the decomposed granite into the cracks between the stones, then turn on the shower to set the DG/stone dust into place. We have a large concrete patio(800 sq ft?) Thoughts on that?

Naturally it failed. Oh and 5. the environment.This stuff is not good for our eco system, our planet, beloved mama earth. And then simply add screening as you instruct on your website? Change ). You could probably put your pea gravel over this layer.

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