Blue Stone Patio
Towards the end of 2013, I went to a local stone yard auction. I was looking for some pavers or some kind of stone to build a patio off the back of the house. The stone yard ended up selling me the remainder of the blue stone that they had in stock which was roughly 750 square feet. A diagram was also provided with the location of each size, which only required slight modifications.
I had quite a bit of help on this patio, and cannot thank them enough for their assistance on this. It was a lot of hard work to complete, however, with Mike at the helm directing everyone, it was far easier. That could also contribute to this being one of the fastest projects completed as we were done within 2 weekends.
original patio area
.5" gravel for base
all the blue stone
dig
and dig
not sure what's going on here
slowly build up the base, compacting each layer
more layers of gravel
it's hard to make out, but, this is the layout that the awesome guy at the stone yard prepared, along with our modified one
spread and screed stone dust prior to setting stones
final push
last stones set, just had to cut the arch out with a grinder
we don't cut corners around here...well, here we did
done!