[stoneguy]

I am tired of paying huge prices for stone/paver sand and would like to make my own.
Does anyone know where I can purchase the binders for it?

[Stonehenge]

Check with your poly sand suppliers - that's your best bet.

[stoneguy]

They are not interested in helping.
They just want to sell sand.
As a matter of fact, I had dealer rights for their product and they sold to my 2 bigest customers and set them up instead of refering them to us.
Shipping is the deal killer here as well.
Anyway, all I need is to find out what the binders are called and I will ship them in if I have to.
I've tried differenet mortar mixes over the years but they don't work well at all for me.

thanks

[Stonehenge]

The key ingredient to the binder's going to be a trade secret, so you'll have to buy the binder (with all it's ingredients) from the mfg or a different distributor. Check with Techniseal, Pave Tech, Envirobond - see what they have to say. If this is for your own installs, a mfg is probably not going to be all that interested in shipping tiny quantities out to you, so I still think a dist is going to be your best bet - just maybe not the one you've been working with so far.

Good luck.

[stoneguy]

We are thinking of setting up a bagging plant because there are no manufacturers in this area at all and as I said before, shipping is a killer.
Plus we have access to free, dry prescreened sand.
Still, will we use enough to get their interest and actually sell us the binder?
We'll see.
Actually the way I found this forum was from another groundsexchange page stating that one might want to buy just the binders and make their own.
Polymeric Sand
I will contact a few manufacturers and see if I can find one that will sell to us.
thx again

[Stonehenge]

Yup, that was in that article - but it was assuming you could get the binder from a distributor. I'm no manufacturer, but if I were, I'd want to move semi loads of product, not 5 gallon pails of it. That you plan on bagging your own may mean that you'll be moving enough quantity to interest a manufacturer.