Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Putting in a patio walkway Hillbilly Style'

Okay I could give you step by step details of how Hillbillies put in paver patio walkways, but I decided I'll keep the writing to a minimum. Let's just say the first step (can't picture this) is choosing the hottest day known to Indiana in decades, this past Saturday July 7 to do it on...103 degrees without heat index or anything!!!! WE WEREN'T TOO SMART...but then again we're Hillbillies and our drums beats out of tune and time.

Secondly ever good DIY walkway done hillbilly style needs the proper attire....jeans or camo shorts preferred with some kind of cut-off are preferred but you're really doing it Hillbilly style if you got a pair of these:
Duct-tape's true purpose: Broken sole of the shoe fixer-upper


A tamper like this:


A lot of these (plus water):

*Crazy (semi-awkward factoid) I drank over 20 bottles of water this day and never used the restroom...just another reason working in 100+ degree heat is probably not the smartest thing!

And on a side note, a true Hillbilly has a: "A/C shade-protector/garden hose mister-in order to hopefully get ancient A/C through the day so the wife doesn't kill someone" (these just like the tamper are not open for ordering until our patent pending designs are fully patented?!)

The garden hose mister is being held in place by a shepherd hook (flower basket thingy) which is in turn being held in place with a trailer spare tire....yeah that's how we roll!

If you have all those things above you can take this:






and transform it into this:

The darker color is due to the paver being wet from the cutting (sprayed while being cut)





I know it's a touch crooked just a hair (some have said they don't notice, and others they like it), and there are a couple shallow lower spots, but hey for the first attempt for both my Dad and I...we did a pretty good job right?!

And that my friends is how two Hillbillies put in a patio walkway....if you wanna know in greater detail how we did this and if there are anything we'd do differently (YES) just ask me....and no my Paver-Shoes are not up for borrowing haha!