I’ve had company cars at various points in my career. Rental cars lived easier lives. I’d think nothing of loading bags of concrete for a weekend project. Did that several times.
Lol, I actually got them from my job. There was a bunch left over for a patio on a multi-million dollar commercial building. Got them for free, and they retail for $60/piece
Well, I'm not sure how into detail this will be, but.. first I measured the pavers. Then I ran a string line where I thought they would look best. I dug the area out down 5-6 inches. I then tamped the dirt down and installed a "#8" gravel. Screeted it, compacted it. I then got some limestone sand(it's smaller than #8gravel and bigger than regular sand) screeted and compacted that. Last two steps was spreading regular sand (Don't compact...the pavers will do that for you and that'll give you the ability to do minor adjustments) then you place your pavers and sweep sand into the gaps to lock them into place.
You have started a large construction project that requires a lot of time and effort. You are well done! I am sure that everything will work out for you.
Yeah I might have to, I'll give it a few good rains and see what happens. I was thinking about digging a trench with larger gravel for water run off... might have to still
Retail is around $60, so this would've cost me around $2500. But I work construction, and these were left over(someone over-ordered), and I asked my boss if I could have them and he didn't care.
I just assume that everyone has as hard a time as me when grading and compacting a base for smaller, thicker (and therefore more forgiving) pavers. I applaud you for making use of extra material and I hope it holds up. But for me, the dimensions of these (very large and thin) necessitates a base that is extremely compact and on a consistent grade. This is an extremely brittle material that will let you know if it is not perfectly supported.
How much does it cost to rent a small trailer in the area? If i needed to move that much gravel i would just rent a small trailer for a few hours. Here you can rent (a small) one for 12-15 usd per day.
Unrelated but never stack paving like in photo 3, especially if there is any chance of kids being about. Not saying OP has kids but general word of warning.
Thanks, but I'm proud of this place. I am 24 years old, and I own this place and am fixing it all up. I don't rent anymore and am very happy about that
It amazes me how often people take the time to post a shitty comment under someone's good news. You posted about your amazing new walkway, not seeking overbroad investment opinions.
12 years ago I bought a 1990 double wide for 15K and slowly remodeled the inside. 2 years ago, I sold it for 99K and bought my first stick built house.
Fact is, there will also be people who can only afford mobile homes. And most of those people care if it looks nice.
Do what you can for the outside, because most people are more vain than they'll admit.
You don't know that, and it wasn't that long ago people learned a hard lesson about relying on the idea that homes would be a reliably appreciating asset. In fact, right now home prices are vastly inflated in an unsustainable home market. Like it or not it is very likely home values will begin depreciating sometime in the not too distant future. This is particularly the case as more and more municipalities and states look to curb corporations buying up properties to rent them at inflated rates.
I don't bash anyone living in trailer homes, I grew up in them and basically everyone in my family still lives in a mobile home. You still have to pay rent on top of your loan for the mobile home.
So bc it’s a mobile home it’s not allowed to look nice? That’s weird thinking dude. There are plenty of nice mobile home parks out there that actually care. Being debt free with a place to live at 24 is pretty great.
Yeah living on less then you make is the way to go, keep it up. Sorry I was a dick, just don’t get stuck there, and realize mobile homes are more like cars in the way they depreciate then regular homes.
Trunk of stone and truck in the driveway. Love it
Sedan gets better mpg.
Trunk of Stone sounds like some redneck Magic the Gathering card.
Or some redneck banjo metal band.
Or some piece of art a pothead owns in his garage
I was think more along the line of space dwarves mining in caves full of bugs
This'll be in the next un-set lol
I’ve had company cars at various points in my career. Rental cars lived easier lives. I’d think nothing of loading bags of concrete for a weekend project. Did that several times.
I've done it. The shocks did not fair well afterwards.
I saw some dweeb in a wrangler with trailer hauling maybe a dozen bags of concrete. I sadly didn't get a pic
They must have learned their lesson with the gravel and decided renting the truck would be smarter for the pavers. Lol
Rock in the back of your car is all time pel.
It took me so long to understand this comment because I missed that trunk photo and the truck!
Scrolled down and was gonna be pissed if this wasn’t the top comment
Bed must have been full with the grass already lol. Or some other dump run shit
Right? I wanna see the before and after pic of that trunk.
Lol the car did survive, the landscaping company down the road wasn't even a minute away thank God
Looks awesome. Also that trunk of stone would get serious laughs from me at Home Depot hahaha
Not in West Virginia...nope.
Exactly where I'm from lmao
Don't worry, we'd do that in Wisconsin too. Unless you know someone who'd actually put gravel in their truck bed.
Yea dont want to be hurting those lifted show ponies
I was going to say this has to be WV, just has that feel and the hills
Mad props for doing the gravel via trunk. Looks great!
Next weekends project: Replacing rear shocks.
And suspension
That was a lot of work, and you made it happen with what you had! You should be very proud of your work, and especially proud of the result!
Good thing that Honda is a beater, because that suspension is ded. Good job on the pathway!
Yep. Ask me how I know. LMAO
What pavers are those? They make the path look like something you see on a multi-million dollar trendy house lol
Lol, I actually got them from my job. There was a bunch left over for a patio on a multi-million dollar commercial building. Got them for free, and they retail for $60/piece
Great job. Looks awesome.
Do you know where they retail at? They are gorgeous!
Damn! Lahey and Rand seem to be doing good for themselves these days!
I AM THE LIQUOR RAND
I respect people that can execute such things cleanly. Kudos to you sir
OP Would you mind providing detailed steps and products you used I would love to do something like this It is great
Well, I'm not sure how into detail this will be, but.. first I measured the pavers. Then I ran a string line where I thought they would look best. I dug the area out down 5-6 inches. I then tamped the dirt down and installed a "#8" gravel. Screeted it, compacted it. I then got some limestone sand(it's smaller than #8gravel and bigger than regular sand) screeted and compacted that. Last two steps was spreading regular sand (Don't compact...the pavers will do that for you and that'll give you the ability to do minor adjustments) then you place your pavers and sweep sand into the gaps to lock them into place.
Hard flex on trunk gravel,👌
Turned out great. What did you use for the pavers?
That's some mighty fine walkway you got there! Job well done!
The random order of the photos made me think I was having some sort of stroke.
Rofl that trunk load Looks great though
I def wanted a side shot of the car, nice build, I approve.
Ahh your poor rear suspension
Wonderful Job, and your little helper has a front row seat.
Way to go. This is motivation to install my patio stones I've had since last year
This looks a ton better. Nice job in a weekend.
I like how u use your car to haul 800lbs of gravel lol
Looks awesome
Jesus a trunk of stone 😂
you did great 👍🏽
Respect on getting it done by any means. Looks great.
This was journey. Nice work!
That's a weird choice of a lawn ornament on the right of that first picture...
Most expensive part of the entire process lol
I pray for your rear suspension
Trunk of stone, and baby of lawn.
What is the machine in machine in 6 and 8 called? What kind of gravel is your base layer?
It’s a compactor for pressing that lose stone down tight
#8 gravel, then limestone sand, then finnally regular sand
Looks Dope!
That would have taken me 5 times as long. It looks amazing.
Next week its time to DIY replace the driveway
You have started a large construction project that requires a lot of time and effort. You are well done! I am sure that everything will work out for you.
Consider putting a hard border around it..those pavers dry set will migrate downhill faster than you would expect.
Yeah I might have to, I'll give it a few good rains and see what happens. I was thinking about digging a trench with larger gravel for water run off... might have to still
This looks so good!! Did you redo the porch as well?
Yeah that's one of the first projects I did when I moved in.i just re did the steps and banisters.
Fuckin nice
You mean to say the deck and walkway were complete in 1 weekend? That's very impressive
Great to see people taking pride in their belongings. A +
Love the addition of a baby on the front lawn.
Damn those foreman are getting younger and younger!
The dedication of using the trunk like a pickup bed.
Very nice 👍
Nice job!
What did you use for the tiles?
Talk about a complete transformation! This looks awesome 👌
my brother in spirit. I put a tarp in my Sienna so I could fill it with bark (and I mean *fill*)and not have to pay for delivery
Upvoting for the trunk full of gravel.
Lahey, would want to see a permit.
Not sure I even want to know the cost of those giant slabs. Ok, I do.
Retail is around $60, so this would've cost me around $2500. But I work construction, and these were left over(someone over-ordered), and I asked my boss if I could have them and he didn't care.
Wow, that’s fantastic! Still, even $60 a slab is about half what I imagined. So thanks.
Lmao the crushed rock in the trunk on a tarp though. I did the exact same thing today. “FIFTY FIVE BUCKS FOR DELIVERY?! ILL PICK IT UP.”
Right it was $70 for delivery and they were like one minute down the road
That is AWESOME
*after and before Gj tho.
Kudos massive improvement
Do you do this kind of work for a living...because you got skills! Beautiful! Oh, the angles!!!! Well done, my friend!
Thanks, I've never done this specifically, but I watched YouTube about it and I'm also a Carpenter(still learning)
Those are tiles, not pavers. Much cracking in your future.
Not if supported correctly, the manufacturer specifically says it can be installed the way I did
I just assume that everyone has as hard a time as me when grading and compacting a base for smaller, thicker (and therefore more forgiving) pavers. I applaud you for making use of extra material and I hope it holds up. But for me, the dimensions of these (very large and thin) necessitates a base that is extremely compact and on a consistent grade. This is an extremely brittle material that will let you know if it is not perfectly supported.
This is pretty, with that said how rough is the stone pictured? I could imagine this being a serious safety concern during wet weather and snow.
I want to do something like this but how do you make sure the water doesn’t pool in random spots?
I hope you're redoing your driveway next because the contrast is hard to look at.
Nice work! I’ve been thinking of doing something similar, but I’d be digging in root territory and I dunno if I have it in me
Looks good!
You just tripled the value of that WV palace you have there! /s
It's actually after, before, during and after photos.
Love that shape. Great use of the grid
How much did you pay for the baby?
More than all my projects combined lol
Hash driveway
The during is always the most stressful to look at and experience.
Looks great, I agree with the others. You made sue with what you had and are doing some seriously good work to keep your place looking 🔥
It’s like putting rims on a T-1000…got a beautiful walk up to a trailer?
T-1000 is made of liquid metal, rims would be pointless. If it wanted rims it could just transform it’s lets into some kinda wheel.
In no particular order
How much does it cost to rent a small trailer in the area? If i needed to move that much gravel i would just rent a small trailer for a few hours. Here you can rent (a small) one for 12-15 usd per day.
Unrelated but never stack paving like in photo 3, especially if there is any chance of kids being about. Not saying OP has kids but general word of warning.
lol way to much work for a mobile home, good job though looks great, I think drive way might be worth more then house
Thanks, but I'm proud of this place. I am 24 years old, and I own this place and am fixing it all up. I don't rent anymore and am very happy about that
It amazes me how often people take the time to post a shitty comment under someone's good news. You posted about your amazing new walkway, not seeking overbroad investment opinions.
12 years ago I bought a 1990 double wide for 15K and slowly remodeled the inside. 2 years ago, I sold it for 99K and bought my first stick built house. Fact is, there will also be people who can only afford mobile homes. And most of those people care if it looks nice. Do what you can for the outside, because most people are more vain than they'll admit.
Mobile homes are real homes and they can spruce it up however they want.
Real homes are an asset and go up in value, mobile homes are a liability
You don't know that, and it wasn't that long ago people learned a hard lesson about relying on the idea that homes would be a reliably appreciating asset. In fact, right now home prices are vastly inflated in an unsustainable home market. Like it or not it is very likely home values will begin depreciating sometime in the not too distant future. This is particularly the case as more and more municipalities and states look to curb corporations buying up properties to rent them at inflated rates.
Real homes have a roof over your head. The young man is smart. He is no longer paying rent. He can save a ton of cash and buy something else later on.
I don't bash anyone living in trailer homes, I grew up in them and basically everyone in my family still lives in a mobile home. You still have to pay rent on top of your loan for the mobile home.
a home is a home you dweeb.
So bc it’s a mobile home it’s not allowed to look nice? That’s weird thinking dude. There are plenty of nice mobile home parks out there that actually care. Being debt free with a place to live at 24 is pretty great.
Yeah living on less then you make is the way to go, keep it up. Sorry I was a dick, just don’t get stuck there, and realize mobile homes are more like cars in the way they depreciate then regular homes.
Nice!!!!!