Raised Patio

Captainsls

I figured I would share our current project. I would love to get any input, comments or questions are welcome. House was built in 1809

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Captainsls

more........

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Captainsls

more to come as we progress

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CJKarl

1809...so it's a new house. Alot of homes here are from the 1750s. Worked on one that was built in 1665.

Patio looks nice, what are you capping the wall with?

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Tommy C

Are the block filled in solid?

Captainsls

We filled the cores with grout, although I’m not sure it was entirely necessary. Would you have done the same?

Captainsls

Here is where we are thus far. We are moving slowly with only 2 of us. CJ, we used (heavy) thermal blue for the caps as you can now see in the picts.

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raskolnikov

Captain,
What happens with the footing at grade at the bottom of both sets of steps? Removed afterwards?

D.

Cole

Nice, what program did you use to design it?

Total cost of the job?

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rbsremodeling

Nice work in progress. What happened to the purple rocks??

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Cole

Zing!

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Captainsls

Thanks for the compliments. As for the footing, we will just run some cuts down it with the demo-saw and remove the top 6” to allow for turf to grow. In regard to the design, many programs were used to get the final render, but sketch-up is responsible for the layout.

By purple rocks I’m guessing you mean the ones shown in the design? I guess it turns out that bluestone is actually blue.

Captainsls

Almost done. Laying the flagstone. Natural cleft full color pattern bluestone. The 2 of us can lay about 200 sq a day (that’s with laying it twice, once for position and another individually leveling each piece)

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Cole

Nice work!

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Tommy C

Yeah, I'd fill the block cells with grout.

bls1000

Looks great so far!
I'm just wondering exactly how these kinds of patios are done. Is the bluestone just set into stonedust? Is there any other kind of base below that?

Thanks for the info!

Captainsls

This situation is somewhat unique as far as the base is constructed. We are overlaying an existing concrete slab, but we also extended the patio beyond the slab. That part is filled with aggregate. As far as your base construction I don’t know what material you should use? Use whatever meets astm-2940 and achieves compaction, for us reprocessed asphalt is proper road base aggregate. I would never use stone dust for base in any situation. However, for a 1/2" bedding layer to seat the stone we do use screenings.

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bls1000

Do you spread the screenings in between the joints too?

Finished product looks great by the way.

Captainsls

You could, but if you want to step it up a notch you could use polymeric sand that is recommended for natural stone applications.

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doubleaction

Looks realy good

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