[sgilroy]

How dry does the stone dust need to be when laying pavers? It's been raining off and on here for weeks with little relief in sight.
thanks,
Scott

[Fine Edge]

You want them moist at compaction time but you don't want any squisshy stone dust when you are ready to lay. My patio had the same thing happen so I just waited for it to stop raining and did my final screeding. I had already compacted the base so the rainfall didn't hurt it one bit.
Have you compacted any of the stone dust yet?

[Doug70]

Isn't it better to use dry sand for pavers?

[sgilroy]

I have a 27 x 23 patio which will take me some time to lay the pavers. So, is it ok to lay out a layer of stone dust over the whole patio and just scrape away lines to lay screeding poles to lay small sections at a time? what about when some portions have pavers already laid, but there is more to go...do i need to cover them to avoid any disturbance of the stone dust before compaction??

thanks for the help.
Scott