[TriCountyLawn]

The company I worked for prior to starting my own company I worked as a foreman on a landscape crew. And I have to admit this company provided really high end work but NONE of it has come close to the pics of the work done by members of this site.

The Project-

Were doing a flagstone walkway from a driveway to the front steps of a home. (maybe 300sq ft). All the outer edges of this walk will be a radius so in other words this walk starts wide and curves and gets smaller. Were going to use large Penn. Bluestone Flagstone.

The Plan-

Im planning on excavating out the current soil (black dirt) laying fabric, then laying 6-7 inches of compacted #73 gravel for base. Prevously (at the other company) we would then screet out 2-3 inches of sand then set the flagstone and rake in sand or real fine ag lime.

The location of this project is in a low river land area. The customers and myself are somewhat worried about the freeze and thaw. So with that in mind im looking at setting these in mortor instead of a bed of sand.

Also I would love to grout this walk BUT with out laying this on a soild concrete slab I foresee it cracking with the freeze/thaw. So im open to suggestions as to what to sweep into the joints.


Far as the out side radius goes im thinking about laying them long them cutting them to the radius of the walk. The other joints im thinking of keeping a natural look and try to keep thumb joints.

The customer is framiler with several other projects we have compleated and is letting me make the decisions on the flagstone. So im just looking at my options and trying to furthur my knowlage in the hardscaping area. Im sure there are 1000 details that I have forgot to add and will check this thead often.

Thanks alot!

Nick Stone
Tri-County Lawn & Landscape