Making your own pavers can be fun and rewarding.
Making floor out of paving stones.
Learn how pavers are made.
Pavers are flat pieces of stone or concrete of various shapes that are put in the ground to make a path.
When working with recycled materials such as used concrete it is necessary to think creatively.
Work as if you re starting at the tip of a triangle and working out.
We always had mixed by hand before this.
Could not believe how easy it was to make a few paving stones.
The first step is to build the form for the pavers.
With these easy steps you can make customized pavers for your garden.
For my shed i needed nearly 30 pavers of this size.
Making your own paving stones out of repurposed and recycled material is a way to save money as well as a way to spare your local landfill from construction waste build up.
It ended up being 22 square and the concrete came up to 1 inch below the top of a 2x4.
While professional pavers manufacturers make new and unique designs they don t give you the option customizing pavers by adding for example your favorite symbol or sea glass.
My design for this was based on the amount of concrete an 80 pound bag of premix would make.