Paving 101
Paving 101
Rule 1 for Paving an area. Forget what your mate said.
Unless your mate is a qualified builder or landscaper follow the manufacturer’s recommendations.
Let’s start at the very beginning.
What do you want? The best designs come from some solid overall vision of what you want to achieve.
Do you want a rustic look, a contemporary look or is it purely functional?
What other elements do you need to tie it into, such as retaining walls, drainage, plants, water feature and the like?
Physical factors include but are not limited to…
- Is it a difficult site to dig? What is the soil like?
- What is access like?
- Is there a load on the area?
- Where is the water going to go?
Why should you follow the manufacturer’s recommendations?
To be perfectly cynical, manufacturers make recommendations for fairly selfish reasons.
- They do not like complaints or litigation
- The recommendations work
- They get good results and good results are good for business
- Manufacturers are staffed by people and people generally do not like to see other people distressed or hurt.
- If something does go wrong and the wall is not made to the recommendations you “won’t have a leg to stand on”.
For a step by step how to check you the videos below.