Tag: homemade pavers
Homemade Stone Pavers
by admin on Sep.17, 2011, under Favorites, Images, Real Estate
If you’ve followed any of the “Stucco Series” posts, you’ll have seen an image or two of some homemade patio stones. There has been a little break in the stucco project since working outdoors – with temperatures approaching 100 degrees a few days – was just not fun.
But now most of the heavy-duty aspects of the redesign of the backyard area are all but complete and it’s time to contemplate a pattern for the paver stones we’ve produced. Here’s what we’ve come up with so far:
This image also gives you a look at several of the stone molds from The Mold Store – filled with their “mixture.”
Defining “mixture”…
The easiest choice is Sakrete. For about $4 a bag this mix includes everything but the water.
The less-easy choice is still as easy as one-two-three…
~ One shovel of cement.
~ Two shovels of sand.
~ Three shovels of gravel.
Blend the mixture while still dry, add water, and stir.
Take your time adding water since you can’t take it out later if you use too much. The less water you use, the stronger your concrete will be. But, for our purposes we wanted a wetter mixture of concrete so it conforms to the mold completely – without gaps.
We’ve been really pleased with the Celtic Knot stones shown in a prior post but we haven’t decided for sure whether or not they will be incorporated into this section of the patio design.
More on patio and paver design coming soon! And a new post on stone color considerations. (November 2011)
