Cement alternative for flagstone patio joints?
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Trina Heaster Grove on Aug 25, 2014Did you put land scale fabric under the sand? Did you use polymeric sand between the flagstones? If not, you can plant thyme between the gallstones to keep the weeds down. We put a Gladstone path in a few years ago and took it out because it had so many weeedsHelpful Reply
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Dorothy on Aug 25, 2014The only thing I can think of would be planting some kind of very low, very traffic tolerant ground cover or picking up the stones, raking or sweeping out the sand, laying a weed barrier, leveling the area without a slope, resetting the stones and replacing the sand with something (perhaps being level would allow for polymeric sand?) less likely to wash out (maybe small size gravel?). For plantings there are several that come to mind....creeping wooly thyme, a tiny mint (the name of which escapes me at the moment).Helpful Reply
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Darla on Aug 25, 2014Crushed shale can pack down very hard. You might try that.Helpful Reply
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Toshiba on Aug 25, 2014I might try the shale. We cant do any plants because of the heat here in SC, the stones get too hot, and the sprinklers do not cover the flagstone area.Helpful Reply
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Moxie on Aug 25, 2014They make a product called polymeric sand (brick and paver suppliers can usually get) that you use in lieu of regular sand..it sets harder after two water soaks.Helpful Reply
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Barb Burnham on Feb 11, 2015Never heard joints too wide for polymeric sand. Verify the information. Howevrt, there is a spray on product you can use on fines (sand to decomposed granite size) that is a sealant adhesive. It forces the granules to stick together as a solid flexible surface. We are having our entire driveway graded, covered with decomposed granite then sprayed. They spray once, 2 was or so later then in one year -done for life. We will be able to drive over it daily (UPS/FEDEX trucks too) and it still look natural to our desert, prevent erosion and carefree. A sand/gravel store would know of it. They did not mention a weed block fiber down first, but I would still ask the question. If that isn't plausible for any number of reasons, I would go with a creeping Thyme that takes foot traffic. If it could take the Las Vegas heat, you are fine in S.C. Good luckHelpful Reply
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Valerie on Apr 10, 2016I know that you are not keen on cement, but I just thought I would mention that, when faced with a similar situation, I put dry cement in between pavers, and then added the water on to the dry cement. It was quick and easy, as I had been wary of trying to get cement into the narrow areas.Helpful Reply
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