[Lanelle]

We've been getting rain for the past week, but last night's rain is in a whole different league.
Starting about 8:30 last night, we got a constant hard rain totalling between 5 and 6 inches. The flooding is creating a chaotic 'rush hour' this morning.
So, I'm facing a potential mess on a job site. Driveway base is down and about 2/3 of the pavers were down when the crews left on Friday. The exposed areas were covered with plastic but I know that water ran under it.

What would your game plan be in this situation?

(Don't even start with me about finishing the paver lay down before the weekend because I already agree that it should have happened.)

[Paul]

With out seeing the damage it's hard to tell. Most likely the street edge is going to have problems whether it's been paved or not. Your base might have been compmised for work for the next few days, you might just need to let it dry out.

[NCSULandscaper]

no need to do too much just yet because we are expected to get another 2-5" of rain tomorrow and wed...........we got 4" saturday night, over an inch yesterday, expected another 1-2" today

[Pelican]

I'm with Paul, it will depend on the extent of damage. I've had washouts of my base occur during construction and spent 1/2 day bringing it back to grade. I've also had it rain while laying pavers but haven't had the sand wash out on me. If this is your problem, I'd scrape up the remaining sand and reinstall it. Spend a lot of time feathering the new sand in to the old, I use a concrete bull float for that. With a lot of care, you'll get the blend just right so that the joint between new and old sand doesn't show.

[Lanelle]

As forecast, it's raining again. This is supposed to last another 30-36 hours so I'm trying to remain calm (breathe deeply, slowly now....).
When I got to the site, it was very wet and saturated. Compaction is gone but material remained in place for the most part. So we will wait.......
Thanks for the reassurance that patience is the best course.

[Stonehenge]

I'm with Paul and Pelican on this - have to wait to see what the results are, and just plain waiting for it to dry might be the very best course of action (or non-action ).

[jwholden]

The pool job I completed this spring was during the rainy spring. My base got wet alot, but we only ended up final grading it once. I covered the pavers with tarps to keep the sand dry, but the homeowner removed them to look at the job and it rained on the sand. Only an inch or two.

By the time we did the final compaction the sand had a chance to dry out a bit, it never seemed to completely dry. And all compacted o.k.

Did you notice the sand was washed away from under the pavers?

[LandArts]

"I covered the pavers with tarps to keep the sand dry, but the homeowner removed them to look at the job"

OUCH! I woulda been pissed...

[dan deutekom]

In my experience over the years is that if you get big rains during the job you just have to be patient and wait until things dry out enough to go back to work. If you leave things alone it is suprising how little damage is done by water as long as it is not flowing quickly enough to wash out things. Most damage is easily repaired when things get dry and you will do nothing but create more problems if you try to rush things. I have seen excavations full of water, saturated base and soaked final grading and screeding that all are just fine once the sun shines on it for a little while and you just "Leave it to dry"