Sure, we can split these pavers on an angle. Initially, we planned to continue the herring bone pattern to the angled edge bordering the flower bed. Chris measured and marked the pavers and I scored the top side and bottom with the saw. When I applied the chisel and gave it a quick whack with the hammer we discovered that the pavers liked to break closer to in half than any other angle.

The last four pavers took a very long time to install and they wanted to be a soldier rank.

Chris placed over one thousand pavers into our patio. To finish the project we swept and tamped and swept and tamped and... This final process is to secure the pavers into the form of a patio so it does not revert to a pile of brick over the years to come.

Luckily for us, Eleanor brought over her dad, Cary, to supervise the final phase. She approved of our efforts and we locked the pavers in place with a moderate pile of slag sand.

Back to Summer '01 And why did we do this?