DIY Patio With WalkMaker Mold
This is a concrete patio made with individual diy pavers using the walkmaker concrete molds.
Hey all,
If you want a patio on a budget, do this.
We spent a less than $250 on this 18x14 space.
We invited two of our neighbors over for dinner and surprised them with shovels to help us dig 😂.. jk. Kinda!
After all the digging, we killed the weeds and grass.. I did some research on the Walkmaker molds and read that they required little preparation.
If I learned something from this project is: lay the molds closer together next time!!! I only realized how far they were when the polymeric sanding started 😆
*you'll understand the 4 posts later
After all the pavers were in place and cured, I laid down 6 buckets of Polymeric sand in the tan color, then watered it, waited for the correct drying time and redid another layer on top.
PS: I used a brush to clean the sand off the pavers.. with the big comercial broom was hard to clean it 100%
After everything was said and done, I actually loved how they look more like stones than pavers, and they look like this because we laid them further apart.
This is it! 😍
We are enjoying this space so much and now actually want to do more.
Now we are on to finishing a pergola, I know you were wondering what the 4 posts were about.
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Love the look. We used a cultivator fo turn our ground a bit but there’s so many weeds still. We thought about laying a weed barrier then some sand over that then lay the molds. What is your thought on this. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you - Tisha
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I’ve seen a lot of people use cardboard as weed barrier, we haven’t had the problem of weed growing in the patio yet, but around it where we have stones it has happened.
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Impressive job! Thanks for sharing.
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Did you use some sort of border around the pebbles, to stop them migrating on to the lawn? You wouldn't need anything terribly high - maybe a border of brick pavers?
I really like this with the stone around it. But do you have any advice for cleaning up the white stone a year or two after they have been laid down. Mine are muddy and brown
Doing the same thing, but I need to backfill. Should I use dirt or stones?