How To Build a Patio In One Day Or Less
You can build a patio for your home without even learning how to build a patio. When you go into any home improvement or garden store you will usually see that they carry something called 'walkway' stones.
Most of the time they come in a large variety of shapes, colors and sizes. You can actually build a patio with these without pouring any cement what so ever. You will just figure how big you want your patio to be.
For example, if you want a 100 square foot patio, you would want to pick up a hundred of these 'walkway' squares. They usually come in one foot squares. This is one of the quickest ways to learn how to build a patio. Then you would dig your ground up and level it.
No need for fancy equipment, a shovel and a rake are sufficient to get the job done. Rake the dirt out evenly and place your stepping stones down one beside the other.
If you want to turn your patio into a perfect square, you will want to make ten rows of ten. You want to fit them as closely together as you can. Then you will want to stomp on your stones to set them down into the dirt nice and securely.
Make sure your stepping stones are nice and even. Then you will shovel your extra dirt on top of the squares. Even if there isn't much dirt left go ahead and do this anyway.
After you have spread the dirt over all of it as evenly as possible, go ahead and sweep it off the stones. This will help fill in any gaps or cracks in the squares. Voila! This is probably the fastest way to learn how to build a patio you will ever come across.
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Published October 9th, 2007