But the mortar beneath the stones will likely crack, making wobbly stones sitting on cracked hard cement. When using pea gravel for a hard surface patio or similar area, you need to use a binding solution. This can make the stone slippery and change its appearancewithout providing any benefit. Countless homeowners have done everything that they can to transform their houses into smart homes. But when I see this happening on other jobs, its always one of two issues, or both: 1. When selecting your base rock, make sure to pick rough gravel that is large enough to allow the pointy edges to interlock and heavy enough not to be washed away in a storm. I would like to fill the joint of the flagstone patio with decomposed granite so I can match the color somewhat. Thank you again and Best Regards! Would appreciate your thoughts! In a northern climate, cement misused in a dry laid application will almost certainly fail. Hey! We have an existing flagstone patio which was built on a layer of crushed limestone with the same in between the flagstones. Actually, one extra stepthey like you to first excavate for your walkway, then lay out this plastic honeycomb material, then fill that honeycomb with clean gravelits a two inch thick honeycomb, then pour 2 of the gravel glue mix on top of that.so you need to get your excavation fairly level for the honeycomb to sit right.you also need to set an edging material of some kind before you pour the glue gravel stuffwe used two x fours, staked into place, which we removed after the walkway was set, after the glue had hardened. Other methods. 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. It does dissolve some plastics, not all, so who knows? One stone at a time. But yes, for a DG path, a border or edge material is generally necessary. It was getting ridiculous. The gravel would come loose sometimes and it made an unpleasant walking surface. After the pea gravel has been dry for at least three days, follow the manufacturers directions to mix the binding solution. I sent him your article about using quarry dust. Three potential problems remain however a) the flagstones are on sand. It commonly ranges from 0.63 to 1.26" in diameter and is commonly sold by the ton or truck-load. My brother suggested sand? Weve been building an Idaho quartz stone (2.5 d medium & smaller size flag stones) patio. I just used stone dust (screenings) as a leveler and in between stones. Wed like to use a contrasting product to highlight the design and fill in the empty space. Ill keep trying to keep the fit tight and corners flat. it will likely stay glued to itself.but the bricks or stone that it is set amongstthese will not be clean surfaces. Surrounded by retaining wallsso the patio is below grade, and a drain of some type is necessary. I was thinking about trying a 4' wide path going back to the horse barn. I never recommend sealing flagstone. Once it dries and hardens, the sand stays in place. To see pics of out slate patio and other recent landscaping projects, ck out my Picture Trail: Here is a link that might be useful: look at Landscaping Projects 2007, Favourite ROSES We Grow albums. Your work looks great! Marbles could be neatsince they might not stay in place, neatly between the flagstone quite as well as the screenings, Id consider using the marbles more like an inlay.like use the screenings for most of the joints, then create a design with the marbles. It was inspiring, insightful, knowledgeable and overall great advice. Personally, Id try it if I had some d-limonene lying around. Flagstones tend to be larger (2x3 or 3x3), mixed with some smaller units (1x1 or 1x3). The stuff I used came in 5 gallon buckets. Each unit of our concrete block is approximately 3,000 lb in weight and 5' x 2'-5" x 2'-6" in dimensions. The modal window is a 'site map' of the most critical areas of the site. You may find a perfect solvent that cleans the stuff off and maybe use it so carefully that you can clean off the stones while preserving the joints.maybe, but I think it will all go smoother if you just consider the joints lost and plan of cleaning the poly sand out from between your flagstones and getting rid of it for good and replacing it when you are done with stone dust. Then maybe Id write an article and update it once a year, reporting on how it performs and how to best maintain it. btw, the photo you emailed me looks GREAT. Ive never seen any ratio of cement to stone dust/sand that works. But, it depends on the scene, and on your preferences.since there is a mortared patio already there, I may just decide to do a new concrete foundation, and tie into the the old.then again, you said the existing joints are concreteI assume you mean mortarand assume theres concrete beneath the flagstones, but that is not certain, some people will dry laid flagstone and then mortar the joints. Good luck! I had them power washed so a lot of the sand was blown out. Anyway, after its gone just sweep in screeinings and be happy. Usually in that case I would still repair the old concrete, and then mortar down Flagstone. Do I just mortar the joints nice & tight and call it a day. Sorry for the delayed responseIve been busy finishing up with the years work before the winter sets in. Take a 1 paint brush and just apply sealant to the mortar joints, keeping the stone not sealed. Resulted in ugly haze. I'd likely just go for concrete after this fiasco. Now what? Not too wetjust wet enough to be sticky. I like the idea of the screenings but do we now have to remove all of the sand? But I get ityoure suggestion youd just seal the mortar itself. 2. What I do is I sweep stone dust/screenings in-between the flagstones, filling the joints until the stone dust is even with the top of the flagstone then I hose it down and off. They get slippery. In my experience a wire-brush + elbow grease will get *some* of it up, when its fresh. A pea gravel patio can be surprisingly difficult to keep maintained and repaired. This is hard for the dogs to walk on (sharp edges). Cheers! I haven't used it but was impressed that Colonial Williamsburg and other historic places used it. You could a) hire a professional. But whatever the foundation is, it shouldnt develop such a vast chasm. Devin, Thank you for the excellent article. I think that any crushed stone with a good variety of sizes would work. What Is The Least Expensive Patio Material. Always spec and use 'sharp' sand. I was wondering how best to address a potential problem as winter is approaching. Google patio floor drain choose a decent looking one, read their instructions.Im available for consultations if you wish for individualized guidance on this project. We have a large sandstone flag patio, installed in 2011 by a company that used poly sand in the joints. and then we would lay down the stone and grout the joints with the gravel. Devin, Im looking to refill gaps in a flagstone patio that are pretty larger ranging form 1/2 to 2 inches. Any suggestions on how to keep it from washing downhill? I used screenings to fill in between the joints. But the real complaint that I have against this gravel glue epoxy whatever were talking about, the real complaint is that it just does not look good. Then I pound that stone down, using a deadblow type mallet. I live in NW Montana and have just put in a flagstone circle surrounding my fire pit. Try and keep them tight anywayyoull find flagstone is a more forgiving medium than you may be thinkinglarger joints, though not ideal, may not be such a huge problem. Irish moss, creeping thymeidk, what plant would be best for your local conditions. I live in Seattle in case that is important. First, lay a foundation of compacted stone aggregate, then lay individual flagstones using screenings as the leveling agent. Its kind of silly but often people have screenings/breeze/DG all over their flagstones for the simple reason that they insisted on filling the joints in between the stones all the way to the tippy top. STone flour, such a fine dust that dampening it somewhat, sorta binds it up. When using a hand tamper on decomposed granite, it will stick to the bottom of the hand tamper in clumps. It appears that they ripped 2x 6 in half so that they had 1.5x 2-3/4 material. Thanks, I added your sculpture to my Facebook timeline nice work! Well obviously thats absurd. I just need big money plus artistic license/free reign! After 4 months, it starts to have wavy driveway. Cement/Sand mixture mortar left behind a residue and markings on my outdoor patio stone and walkway. The gravel in some places is as much as 4" thick, so removing it is really the last thing I want to do. You mix it with the fines and sweep into the cracks, moisten. DIY flagstone advice from a guy at Lowessounds dangerous. We dug eight inches deep, used broken concrete chunks, and then filled the voids with #411 limestone gravel, (1 1/2 inches to fines), and then #10 limestone screening on top. Also, Id wait at least 2 weeks before powerwashing over new jointsand at least that long, more like a month, before using acid. The manufacturer recommends clean gaps of just polymeric sand. I was very worried about the hazing of the stone from using Polymetric sand. Natural dirt could mean any combinations of these soil types. Placing a border around the perimeter of pea gravel paths and walkways is one of the best ways to stabilize pea gravel. Be sure to hose off and dont let muriatic acid sit long, as it can deteriorate the joint materialmuriatic acid eats cement. Also, it gives a patio a good appearance, to have all larger stones along the edge. Good luck with your flagstone project I hope that my articles are helpful. I would look under the sink and see if you have any orange based cleaning products. OR, maybe fit small pieces of stone in, laid upright/on edge. The smallest grade of gravel generally available, consisting of small 1/8 or less chips of stone and fine stone dust, like powder. To solve this issue, apply WD-40 after wiping off the bottom of the tamper. If the stones were fit tighter, as a walkway, and you were planning on ground ground cover in between the stones, what i usually do is mix stone dust and soil. As easy to install as regular sand, almost. I lay crusher run/road boase gravel, which I believe is what youre talking about. Hey Devin- I too want to thank you for promoting not putting plastic into the environment! Great work, youve inspired another. Hello, could you please post a few close up pictures of the stone screenings that you use so we can try to match our locally available products as closely as possible. We have a large concrete patio(800 sq ft?) This will lead to headaches. Some people try and solve this problem with plastic edging. 46 tons spread out over 4,000 square feet3/4 material, fairly rounded. Metal is more durable, but no matter what border you choose, it should be at least 1/2 inch above the ground outside the perimeter. Use a leaf blower on a low setting to remove small bits of screenings that havent settled all the way in yet. I recommend washing out the rest of the sand. Sweep the dg into the flagstone joints, then carefully hose it downwashing small bits of dg down into any voids that may be hidden underneath the flagstone. Anyone use this sand to firm up a stone driveway? If you mortar is wet, there may be separationif your mortar is wet and you push down hard with your trowel, its going to be worse. Would you advise just sealing the mortar? Polymeric sand with Flagstone a bad idea. The joints are too wide. One questionwould mortar work better than poly sand? Wide flagstone joints are okay.if you plan on planting say irish moss or clover or something. If you want you can promote moss in the shady areaput some moss in the blender with old beer/buttermilk (perhaps this is what you mean by the yogurt method?) Problem. Check it againrepeat until its wobble-free. Any cons to using mortar? I'm excited because I can do a number of project now. and it will still look natural. Would combining the dust with some finer particulate 1/8 limestone be better? Another optionfit the stones so tight together so that theres really no need for filler. But yeah, Id try and d-limonene it, maybe try a careful pass with a pressure washer. The sales guy who sold the glue mess to the general contractor (yes, I subbed, once upon a time!) You can do it. Suggestions for adding on? Thanks for your help, George. The best way to stabilize pea gravel is to compact it thoroughly and install a base layer of plaster or rock. Seriously, that will not go over well at all. Other solutions, please? It is washing out. Just power washed my patio of stone pavers. Back and forthsweep in, hose down, leaf blower, I recommend that you check out this article as well: patio maintenance. He gave me samples of two kinds of much smaller type stone to mix with the pea gravel to see if that would solve it. Sorry. But wait, the limestone dust that you have access to is just flour? Would prefer to be able to pressure wash is once in a while, so does stone dust make it impossible to pressure wash them? I am in the midwest and that is the closest thing I can find that probably matches what you described in your article. Place the pea gravel on top of the concrete mix and level it out with the trowel. Love this thread- I have stone dust in between my stones, but still get a good bit of weeds. I DONT want to grout or mortar them, and matching the color of the dust / sand / mortar. You can see the low spots where the water pools. If it means re-grading a bit of yard, or installing a step. Does that sound like a possibility to you? Great advice and beautiful work around the pool.. thank you! As far as the gravel goes, crusher run is the stuff. We had a flagstone patio put in last year. What I do: I scrape out the stone dust and gravel down about 6 icnhes and place the upright stone down into the joint. I might get a bag and experiment with a small section, maybe at the start of the driveway. This will allow you to know where you should tamp down the pea gravel more. Old timbers get new life as a decorative element in a cottage renovation. Patio is sloped but not very much. Crushed gravel can range in different sizes too and is often used for driveways, paths, and decorative purposes. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. And have fun! https://www.devineescapes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/zzz.jpg. This more or less turns your stone dust into polymeric sandand you know the risks involved with that. The stones have large gaps between them and weeds are taking over. I intend to lay one 12 x 5 long 2 inch thick tread on top of the cinder block. Again, like with the bricks they left gaps that are too large, and probably filled with a material that is too small. First, you will measure the area and check you have the correct amount of binding solution. DG will work the same. Also, I lived in the Poconos for more than 20 years and at one time not far from your town. Its been working for me. If the stones are set upon a gravel foundation: 1/4 minus. Screenings are crushed stone. Only time cement is used in the joint material is if the patio has a proper concrete foundation. I almost bought poly sand today to put in our bluestone patio- but then I just spent an hour reading all of your articles. Step 1. Please do remember folks, local soils may vary. This, I believe, answers your need for a walkway where most of the gravel stays in place, yet is still permeable. Chances are, they used a grout bag and soupy mortar mix.or just tuck pointed with somewhat wet mortar and didnt clean it up sufficiently while it was wet. 2) level out the stones, one at a time, using the crushed stone to raise them up, as needed. Devin, have you tried NATRACIL as a stabilizer? Anywhere that sells gravel/sand/mulch, usually. And yes, I do prefer tighter joints, but dg should work for 2 joints. Most solvents that will actually remove it will probably also stain the pavers anew, so theyre out. Others seem to crack every 4-5 years (near roof leader downspouts and a few other areas that take longer to dry out due to adjoining vegetation). Through the washing, exposed some cracks between the pavers. What I was wondering was if you could spray a water proofing like what is used on cement to settle the dust and smaller stones down and and keep them in place. Screenings are not the same as polymeric sand. Theres also an adjoining bluestone path with 2 joints, but Ive used mulch for those and pounded it in; seems to be holding although it gets weedy of course. Nope, no good. Thanks for saving me from the poly sand! This falls under the no cement at all in a dry laid patio rule. It absolutely does seem counter-intuitive to introduce plastic to a landscape; thanks for articulating this so well. Perhaps they can offer some ideas. Bagged stuff, like youd add to mortar? The 10-in. So the stones just didnt get seated properly. If it is a shady area around your patio you could encourage Moss to grow there and let the most take over so weeds cant grow. But on a dirt foundation, to set flagstones in a bed of cement based mortar, just doesnt make sense, for use with flagstone. I have used it quite successfully in the past, albeit with concrete pavers; the haze isnt as bothersome and didnt seem to last. Is there a means to just patch the cracks? You can choose from various materials like plastic edging or metal borders. Have you seen this used with travertine tile in an outdoor pool deck in Florida? What did I do wrong? This year we had the finances to redo it (had our concrete co. remove it) with Connecticut Bluestone slate. We had a pro lay a flagstone floor. But tiny cracks do form, and weeds will get in there, roots will grow, cracks will get worse. Thanks for your colorful commentary and your insight (with years and years of experience). Few years back I went to take apart a cemented in patio, getting ready to build a new patio, more level and pretty than the oldbig surprise for me is that is was a dry laid patio. But it should work well enough, yes. Screenings are sold by the name screenings in New Jerseyalthough some places may use the name grit or stone dust. Kern in his book, "The Owner Built Home" talks about no-fines concrete. Id love to hear your ideas of anything you think might work. I have an Arizona flagstone patio & sidewalk with mortar over concrete pad and live in Colorado. Not familiar with that product. Bummer. Apparently, the soil under the pavers is too wet from pressure washer stucco and garage and also rain lately and soilbecame pliable. This was done to lower costs, and because the pond area wouldnt receive heavy foot traffic (so we werent worrying about people kicking the stone dust out with their shoes) and also because we wanted a looser look, around the pond. Digging and tamping and rakinghard work!). Your Thoughts are? or do I need to first bind the bottom of the blue stone to the old mortar base somehow - before I mortar the joints? Each stone has been set and packed by hand (earth first packed by hammer, then stones packed with wood and hammer, sometimes jumping). Spread it all over and hosed it down into cracks. 1. Just an aesthetic issue. Very informative articles. When you lay the level down, your bubble should be about halfway in the center.and you do not want much space beneath the level anyway.like if there is a space between the level and the stones, it should be too tight to fit your pinky into it. Where are you in PA? A customer installed 46 tons (4000 sf) of to decorative type stone, fairly rounded with minimal fines on their driveway. 6 inches if youre expecting a lot of traffic. I prefer to keep them tighter, but 2 is doable. Seen it before and everyones gift is unique. Does anything on this page (http://highlandls.com/products/) or this page (https://www.landscapeandgarden.com/gravel-decorative-rock) jump out to you as being the product you recommend? If so, dont use it. Last year, I installed the landscape fieldstone for a courtyard but after an injury, had to stop before completing. All the local supply places are pushing the polymeric sand (gator dust) but the 2 contractors I am considering dont seem to know much about using it. Now in my irregular natural shaped flagstone patio work I will usually leave gaps averaging about three quarters of an inch wide. Also, no to weed barrier? The deck builders say they often use polymeric sand between the pool beam and deck pavers. Reasons are described HERE. Or small pebbles..but the thing is, that small voids may likely form beneath some of your patio stones. Remove excess residue with a leaf blower. Also want to do a seat wall in it. The only times that Ive seen people having trouble keeping stone dust/decomposed granite in their flagstone joints, the flagstone joints were too wide. What is pea gravel. We have bright red Adirondack Chairs. The end result is a firm walking surface which is also permeable, allowing water to pass through. I cant find any advice on-line about how to apply the stone dust. Mr. Devin, I have a concrete sidewalk that meanders down to a dock by the lake. I remember reading about psyllium husks being used as a stabilizer, back in like 2009 or 2010, so major omission, I suppose, that I still havent studied the material hands-on. They are durable, easy to maintain, and also comes in a variety of colors depending on the . Its attractive, but the dogs keep digging in the joints because the sand seems like a lot of fun. Thank you Devin for this, preparing to put in quartz flags in Colorado over clay soil, gravel base, love this long term solution you provide with decomposed granite for leveling and filler. Some areas are shaded by tress, and some by the house, which I think contributes to algae growth. I have done this, for a client. EDIT: Ive also addressed this question in a previous blog post here: https://www.devineescapes.com/flagstone-repair-explained/. It looses its gravel texture, it just ceases to be gravel.looking like a cross between a rice crispy teat and black-topbut looking nothing like a gravel walkway. A wire-brush plus a lot of elbow grease will often remove much of the hazewill rarely get it all though. -just planting grass in between the stone. But then, it its still more rigid and solid than we want, for flagstone joints. Thanks! Any corrections or suggestions I should be advised of? 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