Step 5 is all about laying bricks. If you happen to have about 600 bricks lying around the house you can use them as a surface for your patio. The last update showed the foundation of gravel and sand that the bricks will sit on. After smoothing out the sand you can lay the bricks in any pattern you would like, I chose three different patterns for each area of the patio.
Once the bricks are put down sweep some builders sand into the cracks between the bricks. This will form the mortar to hold them in place while allowing thigs to grow between the bricks if you desire. pack the sand down and give it a good soaking to settle it. You will need to do this step a few times to get them to hold in place.
If you had, say, 800 bricks you could cover this whole area. If you only have 600 you have to find more. Sometimes bricks have the holes in the middle and they are not good for patio use. Let me make a suggestion what to do with them. Go down to the local park and find the water. In the water there are likely some ducks floating around waiting to be fed. Insert a little piece of brick inside the bread and feed it to those ducks. By the time hunting season comes around those ducks will be fat and slow.
3 comments:
Will it be done by hunting season?
Is that a joke?
I must kill, finished or not.
I like to sit on the group W bench.
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