FINALLY! The Christian Hardscaper has returned to KZfaq!

Just be cognitive hahaha love it. The world forgot about the fact that you need to be cognitive to do a good job. You've inspired me to remind everyone in my life to be cognitive at work

Happy Father's Day to you and Benny! Much love and respect from Michigan! Whatever you do, do heartily as unto the LORD!

Your work is phenomenal!

I just finished my first paver project in my front yard. I got all my info from your videos which are great to watch. cheers brother.

Turned out awesome brother. Keep up the good work .👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I started watching you last year and had the confidence to do my own. Im 75% done with a 1200sqft mega arbel with double holland stone borders. Its around my pool deck so its 60% curves inside and out. I thank you so much for being as detailed to us in your thought process and doing such amazing work. Keep it up sir.

That’s one sick goal lad. “Put in the sickest walkway you possibly can”🫡

those pavers are nice.

The attention to detail is impressive guys. I continue to learn little tips and tricks from your videos. Thanks

Excellent video. Beautiful work. Keep it coming, brother. John

Another great vid bro ! Keepem coming!! ✌️😎👍

Just started at a hardscaping company and you’re a beast dawg. Keep it goin you motivate us youngins 💯

He’s aliiivvvveeee. Got worried for a bit ngl.

Going to try open grade chip stone,20mm blue metal and 10mm blue metal not common in australia where sand is preferred,keep up the good work

amei seu trabalho ficou perfeito

Looks so good. Bangin'! Don't mind long videos either. Everything you talk about is another nugget. I'm sure all the editing, uploading, etc. takes considerable time. And you do a good job of that to. Thanks for doing it.

Looks mint! It'll be more cohesive with the backyard patio too with both of them jiving instead of the older, beat-up one. Especially nice with it being curb appeal.

Looks great dude, and couldn’t agree more about setting your borders by hand. It’s a huge disservice to the customer when they sink, and it’s a loss for you to go back and fix what should’ve been done right the first time. 👍🏻 worlds better from the original pavers my dude

What a great video! I am only going to do a small 8x8 low budget patio with pre-strung pavers (or whatever those pavers are called that are stuck together with plastic, lol). First time doing this so trying to get all the helpful hints I can for leveling and proper drainage. In my search I stumbled upon your video & watched the entire video!! You are clearly a professional who takes pride in their work and that deserves huge kudos. The pleasing personality was a bonus! Great job, great video and thank you for being generous enough to share it with the public. We would hire you in a heartbeat given the opportunity. God bless you and your family in the journey through life!

Today I looked at a client's 3 year old paver walkway and overlaid entry stoop that is already starting to come apart. The overlay is a mess. I think she's going to have me pull it apart and do it right. It will be my first of hopefully many larger (to me) hardscaping jobs. Your excellent videos, tutorials really, are more helpful than I can say. Thank you! Also the walkway looks great. Peace out! ⚒✌👍

Hey fellas great work, also great teaching. I’m originally from Worcester , but currently living in SC . Thank you for your well explained tutorials. Looking forward to applying all your methods . One love ! “ TITLE TOWN” God bless y’all , and your business !

So much pride in your work. Bless you

Great job. Great teacher. Thanks for sharing. Kudos.

I followed you a long time ago and I love your job. I want to learn more about hardscape.

Beautiful work as always my friend. Love that block and boarder.

Now that’s what you call being inventive. Having Benny creating a directional hurricane to keep the dust away from your eyes. Who said Benny didn’t care 😁

Looks great as always

Love your vids - I'm commenting on this one b/c it's the most recent. I have a few questions/clarifications regarding a huge project I am embarking on. I'm in Colorado & have a heavy clay soil. I am very concerned about drainage & freeze/thaw. We get a few heavy (for us) rains per year usually, but for the most part are dry. Averaging, at most, 3in per month... but large storms can dump up to 4in over a few hours in a few extreme cases. 1in of rain will yield approx 600gallons on a 1k sqft patio. 1 - the free draining base. My yard is sloped & I want to raise 1 end for a 1000sqft patio. Bordered on 3 sides by raised planters holding trees (most likely arborvitae). I have mitigated all the water run off from the neighbors & am ready to start the actual project now. I estimate I need close to 100 tons of crushed stone to level the patio area. To save cost I want to use recycled/crushed concrete ($17/ton where I am).. the issue is they only have 1.5 inch (compacts to 1.10 tons/cy). Can I use that? At least for the majority of it & then do 3/4 crushed stone on top of that (roughly $40/yd)? 2 - If I understand from your other videos correctly - I will only compact the first 1-2 inches or so of crushed concrete/stone into the subsoil & then fill the rest to grade? 3 - The depth of the crushed layer will be approx 8" to approx 34" (I can build up to 40" in my area w/out a permit). How can I expect the "dry well" portion to act? If the current bare grade/soil doesn't drain well & is very "mushy" when saturated... should I be concerned about the occasional large storm... with a potential of yielding 2000 gallons in a few hours? Thank you for your time & any direction you can give & happy Fathers Day.

Nice job! Wish I hired you for my project! It is what it is! 👏🏿

ola boa tarde cheguei gostei e fiquei done

love your work !! i love all the process and stuff that goes in extra stuff that goes in !!

BEAUTIFUL!!!

We are laying a curved patio today too!

Simply beautiful!

Wow what a amazing job! Well done guyz much respect and great video to super cool!

U need a roller compactor lol . Just a suggestion. Love the videos, learned a lot watching these

U havent posted a video in awhile been looking forward to one

Great video, fan of your channel and work

Can’t beat using a level for screeding, but. The screed to by pave tool is sooo much easier, especially for us guys who are about 230. 😂 don’t gotta bend over to get it level. A lot easier🤙🏼

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When you've been doing this long enough you can feel it in your dead blow hammer when the paver or block is properly set and compacted. I'm sure you know the feeling.

Awesome 😎

Great jog.

simple yet elegant... Wicked fucking work guys very nice.

Nothing better then concrete with fibreglass or structural strengtheners in it for pave edging!

You’ve mentioned suppliers put too many squares and not enough large rectangles in 3-piece paver sets. What is the ideal ratio between the 3 sizes? Thanks!

Love your videos, man! I have 2 question. 1) I live in Canada and discovered your videos when I finished my main base with GA. Now, I've reached the stage where I'm about to lay my pavers. You recommend using clear 7/8" crushed stone instead of stone dust for better drainage. I've already set my main base with GA, so I'm wondering if it's too late to switch to the 7/8" stone vs stone dust. What are your thoughts on this? 2 ) Do you just hammer the pavers and that is it? you do not compacted them with a machine after they are set? .

Have to tell you, I watched the videos on this walkway and was waiting for someone to lose their focus or lose their balance and dump a wheel barrow load down those steps. 😄

Thanks for the great video. I appreciate a pro that does the job right and takes pride in their work. I am just a DIYer and put in a large raised paver patio and paver walkways next to the house. In the process of redoing all because the backfill around the house foundation sunk, about 1 1/2", even after compacting. I used the plastic edging for the walkways, but it has not held up. The clay soil and frost heaves have it (edging) all screwed up - the pavers have laid back down nicely every spring. Question - I was considering using concrete for the edging like you did in the video but concerned about the frost heaves cracking it all up. Do you recommend concrete in this type of soil? I have used small retaining wall block for lawn edging (no base) in a couple of areas and it has maintained its level consistency extremely well. Also thinking of using them for edging, but pretty expensive.

13:52 do you need to do this for bedding sand as well? This may explain why my blu 60 pattern ended up not as even as I would have liked. Considering doing a lift and reset at some point and want to make sure I do it properly. Love the videos! Wish you made these when I did my paver patio

Instead of hammering each paver, would it be possible to roll a water-filled lawn roller over it? Do you not use a plate compactor to avoid scratching the surface of the pavers?

Great video!! Always love your uploads. What plate compactor do you use?

Just a question. Why don't you use your plate Compactor Get a carpet on the plate and let's go. I'll compact everything evenly

Great videos, I've watched quite a few and am considering doing a paver driveway next year instead of concrete. I'd be using SS5 over my silt/clay soil with around 8" of base. A local municipality crushes concrete for a concrete base, but they call it 1-1/4" for size. All I've seen/read call for 3/4" as a base, but could I use this larger size for the first 4-5" of base, then 2-3" of a 3/4" base and topped with 1" of chip stone?

At the start of this project. Do you check grade to see the difference from start point to end ?

I have always used open base under retaining walls, I’m currently adding a paver patio and landing to a 3 tier wall I built last season. I usually do stamped color concrete, as it was less expensive and more common in my area. Due to the price of everything involved with stamped, colored concrete with a pump truck it’s more cost effective for pavers and it does blend better with the retaining walls. I was going to try out the landscape fabric from srm that you mentioned, I got a price of 749.00 per roll of 6/300 is this a accurate price for this material or is it because it’s not a widely used product in my area?

Hey Ben…. How’s JLo? Love your channel… learning a lot. I’m about to do a patio under my pool pavilion I just built and need some advice. The perimeter of the pavilion will have a small retaining wall acting as a step as the patio elevation is approximately 12-16 inches higher than the pool deck…. So two, or three rows of blocks, first row buried plus a 3” cap. The caps need to meet the pavers exactly spot on.. so do I install them higher by a 1/4” or so for compaction with a plate or do I beat them level with a hammer as I go? What would you do? And one more, the wall will be level…. So do I not pitch the patio?

Brother, I love you guys and your channel. I think you do amazing work and always try to do the absolute best job you can. Thats why I don't understand why you would allow that Moffett driver to make a hard 90 turn on a customer's sealcoated driveway leaving tire marks all over the place. Tire marks from a heavy piece of machinery like that can last forever and even show thru the next new coat. Hold your delivery drivers accountable my friend. Hope y'all are staying bogey free out on the golf course, bro!

You ever try the Milwaukee 9 inch cut off? We’ve got a couple of them and absolutely love them

I think it’s time to invest in a vacuumed drop saw. It will definitely save your back.

wait... there are people that don't use levels to screed? crazy!

Individually measuring those pieces butting up to the stone tread is a huge time suck to do accurately. There are better ways for sure.

Great work and videos as always 🫡 Although I will say I was hoping “The Dahhby” made an appearance instead of the 2ft level to free screed 😅😂

How are u securing the bricks. I don't see any type mixed concrete etc keep em in place. Just curious. E joy watching ur content. Thanks