I'm bidding a job where the client has requested a material she saw at the materials yard that I have never worked with (or seen) before. It is a gauged 1.5" thick natural stone similar to bluestone but with tumbled edge. The sizes vary from about 6"x6" to maybe 8x14 or so.
Would you lay this like a concrete paver on screeded sand or like bluestone (the way we do it) set individually in stone dust? Seems to me more like a paver because of the size. What about joints? Would you butt them tight together or give them a quarter inch or what? I'm thrown a little by the tiny size of these things and not sure how to treat it.
Some stones are tough enough to lay like pavers other need that TLC. We don't know what they are made of ? With natural stone we would use a tamper with rubber rollers to set them like pavers. If this is not available to you then hand set then in stone dust.
My experience is any stone as small as 6x6 and only 1.5" thick will not stay put just dry laid. It doesn't have the depth of a paver, and there is no weight to it. I may be lacking some skill or technique, but that's too small for me.
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I'm not sure what kind of stone it is but it seems to have about the texture and density of bluestone. So you would set them tight like a paver? I also get the feeling that something that thin and small would pop out of the ground if someone stepped on it with a high heel or something but it's not my design and not my choice of material so I'm not worried about that. More just worried about technique so I can price it right.
You might consider doing a search for Tumbled Bluestone Pavers. I did, and found some that were made to be set right against each other without any spacing.
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