{"id":1909,"date":"2018-11-29T14:57:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T22:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2018-11-29T14:57:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T22:57:54","slug":"flagstone-and-paving-stone-walkways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/flagstone-and-paving-stone-walkways\/","title":{"rendered":"Flagstone and paving stone walkways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The landscape guys are making working on the ;paving stone and flagstone walkways. These are set on gravel or sand, simetimes with a dollup of mortar underneath, and go all around our yard.<\/p>\n<p>In the front and along one side of our house, we will use 24&#8243;x24&#8243; square pavers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1910\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3846-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3846-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3846-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The plans called for 30&#8243;x30&#8243; poured in place paving stones, but we determined that would cost about 5 times what preformed paving stones would.\u00a0 However, the largest size we could fine in preformed paving stones was 24&#8243;x24&#8243;, so that is what we will use.\u00a0 Here are the paths being prepared for paving stones and flagstone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1911\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3973-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3973-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3973-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3973-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1912\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3955-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3955-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3955-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3955-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we want the resulting surface to be just slightly above the existing grade, we need to excavate down a bit for the sand, gravel, and mortar bed.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the flagstone in the upper terrace of our back yard.\u00a0 They laid out first for fit, then will dig the bed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1913\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3989-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3989-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3989-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_3989-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The landscape guys are making working on the ;paving stone and flagstone walkways. These are set on gravel or sand, simetimes with a dollup of mortar underneath, and go all around our yard. In the front and along one side of our house, we will use 24&#8243;x24&#8243; square pavers. The plans called for 30&#8243;x30&#8243; poured<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/flagstone-and-paving-stone-walkways\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about Flagstone and paving stone walkways<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardscape"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}