After finishing our concrete pavers section, we moved onto creating a path to join our pavers to the roadside. We decided to construct this from Schist, we spent two days at the other campus stealing massive slabs of rock.... then shaping them to paver style.
We dug out the old path and compacted the ground in preparation, laid out some dividing boards to allow for movement over time.
The term "crazy paving" refers to the 'crazed' appearance of the finished surface,it is undertaken as an allegedly simple alternative to more traditional paving, or because broken flags are free or cheaper than intact units, yet, from a contractor's point of view, it costs more in terms of labour to lay a given area of crazy paving than it does for 'normal' paving.
Laying stones to get correct positions before mortar
Well-laid Crazy Paving minimises the amount of mortar or jointing visible at the finished surface. The mortar is the structural weak point of the pavement, so, the less of it there is, the better the finshed work's chances of survival beyond the first winter. All too often, Crazy Paving is badly laid, with great dollops of mortar between the pieces of stone and the whole lot fails within a couple of years.
Max getting our mix ready
