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Posted by Andrew Duane on June 30, 2006, 2:35 pm
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I've never gone 8" past the patio with compacted base material, and
mine have all worked out fine.
Jerry wrote:
> We're putting in a dutch cobblestone patio in the back yard about 13.5
> x 12 feet. We measured everything, set up the strings, dug the hole,
> put in 6" of paver-base and compacted it. I realized today that we
> forgot to measure 8" past the padio borders so our paver-base is
> exactly the size we want our patio to be.
>
> My question is: with a small patio like ours, is it imperative to have
> the 8" of paver-base beyond the patio border or could we just get
> longer stakes for the paver edging? Our soil is clay so I was thinking
> maybe if we found some 2-foot (or longer) stakes, they might hold.
>
> Opinions?
>
> --
> Jerry
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