Bluestone Thickness For Patio

Rake the pack material smooth then tamp with a plate compactor.

Bluestone thickness for patio.

In this video this old house landscape contractor roger cook explains how to lay a bluestone patio. The cost of bluestone pavers depends on the thickness of the pavers and the type of paver. Irregular or natural pavers typically cost around 4 to 6 per square foot while thermal pavers cost up to 8 per square foot. Spread several inches of pack material across patio area.

I noticed that the bluestone pieces vary in thickness not by much but they do vary. Driveways need thicker stone and patios need minimum 1 1 2 stone. The photo below taken on a virginia garden tour is a nice example. When designing bluestone patios i often use various sizes and shapes.

Variegated blue blue and green brown. Enhance your outdoor living space pool patio walkway or landscape with our bluestone slabs. Use 1 or 1 bluestone flagstone for wet setting and 1 for dry setting. These days i don t see it too often except for older stone patios usually mortared.

Thermal flagstone is cut to a nearly exact thickness usually 1 or 1. These natural stone slabs come in a range of 1 5 2 thick. Typical bluestone sizes are 12 x 12 12 x 18 18 x 24 and 24 x 24. Add just enough water to hydrate the mixture.

Our bluestone tiles are sold in blue blue or full color options which include varying blue greens grays rusts and purple shades. Bluestone thermal wall caps and stair treads is a natural quartzitic sandstone our thermal bluestone wall caps stair treads and paving is a excellent choice for your project. Our special selected bluestone random pattern pavers have a natural cleft which is hard and durable perfect for patios. These rectilinear stones can be laid parallel to another structure such as your residence or they can be laid on the diagonal.

Thickness 1 1 2 length 3 4 5 and 6 width 12 and 16 thickness. Ideally you want a durable quartzitic sandstone like pennsylvania bluestone or something similar inch and a half to two inches thick and breaking off into decent sized slabs like 2 feet to 5 feet wide. Perhaps an outline etc. Also i want to use some brick or other color pavers to offset the grey in the bluestone.

Slate was once commonly used as flagstone material. I lay a fairly bomber foundation with 4 drain pipes 5 of 5 8 minus and 1 1 2 of 1 4 minus. Random selection of square and rectangle shaped tiles from 12 x12 to 24 x36. Thermal pavers are usually more expensive while irregular pavers are less expensive.

They drain well and don t move up here in the soggy north west.