Bah

[sinjun]

So I come home to hot sticky humid weather, and a washing machine that needs to go. It's dying and not worth repairing.

Darn.

So much for getting landscaping done. Oh well, there's always next year for that. Say, anyone know anything about laying patio stones so that nothing can grow between them? I can buy the stones, but I don't know how to get them laid properly.

Geesh, that just sounds wrong.

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[persimmon.livejournal.com]

Say, anyone know anything about laying patio stones so that nothing can grow between them? I can buy the stones, but I don't know how to get them laid properly.

Setting aside the enormous temptation to take this in another direction entirely -

what you need to do is prepare the area by digging it out so that the patio stones will eventually be at the same level as their surroundings: if that level is X then the dug out level is X minus the depth of the stone, and minus the inch and a half of coarse sand which forms the base. And below the sand, you have put a layer of the thin black membrane that prevents the growth of weeds up from below. Anything that roots in the sand between the patio stones is easily removed, because the roots can't get through the membrane. So what you need now is sufficient quantities of:

a) the patio stones
b) the black membrane
c) the coarse sand
d) large strong friends to lug it all around, preferably levelling it as they go, and
e) suitable fluids and comestibles to feed said friends so that they don't notice all the weight of the stuff that they are lugging around.

With any luck, what you'll wind up with is not only a patio, but a party ...