re: Pavers with turf between for back patio

Rent one of those compactors from HD and do that with a finer grade of rock.

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Do you not think pulling up pavers just to move them isn’t, itself, a major PITA? I can’t imagine that that likely outcome is a feather in the cap of a project.

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I’m not understanding this question/statement.

Nice.

One the “pros”or “upsides” mentioned about the project seems to be that you can just pick the pavers up and move them. Having to move pavers in wholesale fashion is a sign that the project was a failure to begin with.

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That just sounds like a incredible amount of work. I hope the wife's reward is worth it.

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Jesus, the nerve of me doing a project to make my wife happy.

I did something similar with pavers except I didn't have the turf in between them. It really is a pain in the arse to level everything off.

Grass grows between the pavers. You will have grass, dirt, hair, leaves, and all kinds of stuff stuck in between them. I ended up removing all of the pavers and pouring cement in one area and letting the grass take back over the other area.

If you do go the paver route, I would use pea gravel in between instead of turf.

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Last I checked this is the home and garden board, we do stuff to our homes and gardens

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someone once gave me the following advice/feedback, i think it applies here as well

I’ll call out a questionable design when I see one.

I understand the idea but it’s single use space that will have limited use due to weather and other outside circumstances. I don’t know. This just seems like some sort of cool idea that isn’t practical I the real world.

16x16x2 pavers from Home Depot weigh about 40lbs each. I just did a small area for an outdoor grill area at our neighborhood pool. The bags of sand weighed about 60lbs each. Then there was the task of getting them level on a grass area that was very bumpy. That didn’t happen. 11ft by 5ft area kicked my arse and there were no gaps in between the pavers. Good luck with that.

Spot where table goes should be a solid slab then do rest in the lattice pattern.

The only way I do it is with artificial turf. It is simply too much work for me. The clippings are a night mare and eventually you will have grass higher than pavers, creating an issue about every 4-5 years as things pile up.

Now, out in a space like a drive or something, or somewhere where upkeep isnt as essential. I am with your wife on this, I think it looks awesome.


I really wanted to do that around our pool, my wife vetoed it. God bless her, the clippings from around the pool are bad enough to manage. Now, I think the concrete we laid down looks way to industrial, but it is soooo much more pracitcal and easy. As it ages, it gets a little less terrible looking.

I actually called the football office and asked them to relay a message to him that the h&g board says his back yard is stupid.