[Parish] Fix walkway and Garden, Sat May 24 8-12

[hsydavar at rcn.com]

Saturday May 24 8-Noon
Help reset brick walk way, dig compost into the garden bed, and replant the bed.

Can you help ?
We need
- workers (wear old shoes or rubber boots and old clothes, the clay is very soft)
- snacks/drinks for the workers
- 2 pickup trucks - one for Home Depot (bagged paver base and mulch), one for Franks (Loose leafgro for the bed)
- equipment (hand tampers, shovels [preferably with long handles], digging forks, rubber mallets, gloves, trowels)
- donations to buy materials

You can reach me at hsydavar at rcn.com or by phone at 301-513-0931.

Details

Garden

Shovels
digging forks
gloves

We need a heavy duty rototiller (the walk behind kind, not a light weight Mantis) or people with shovels and digging forks to turn the leafgro into the bed.

Leafgro - needs to be picked up at Franks at 450 and 193. We need 1 to 2 cubic yards of leafgro. Cost is $28.00 per cubic yard (+ tax).

Mulch - I'm not a believer in deep mulching, so we need 14 - 16 cubic feet of fine pine bark mulch.  At Home Depot, 2 cubic feet bags of pine bark mulch is $2.54 for a 2 cu ft bag, so 7-8 bags of mulch ($18-$20 + tax). Please get the pine bark mulch, NOT pine bark nuggets or mini nuggets.

Walkway

hand tampers
4 ft level (or line, stakes, and line level)
paver base
push broom
rubber mallets
shovels
brick chisel (to trim bricks)
Hammer (to trim bricks)
2x4 to screed with
2 pieces metal pipe to act as screed rails

The previously excavated walkway area must be leveled and the bricks reset.  Also, will need to cut bricks around the new small sewer access.

Paver Base - Need to by Pavestone paver base at Home Depot (the paver base at Lowes is too coarse). Need to buy 11 or 12 bags of Pavestone paver base ( 3.38 per .5 cu ft bag, total cost $41 + tax)

Walkway repair instructions

As you read these instructions, note that unfortunately St. Geo doesn't have a properly excavated base for the walkway, just 1 inch of compacted paver base over clay subsoil. The gaps in our walkway are filled with loose paver base, not sand.

Directions and a video for laying/repairing a walkway are here:
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/video/0,,1632399,00.html 

Extracted instructions follow:
4 Use a 4-foot level to determine the finished height of the brick.
5 Fill depressions in the sand bed with ground limestone.
6 Use a hand tamper to compact the limestone.
7 Add 1 inch of sand, then check with the level to ensure there's a 3-inch space for the bricks.
8 Set bricks back into place, tapping each one down with a rubber mallet.
9 Sweep fine-grain sand into the joints between the bricks.
10 After the first heavy rainfall, sweep more sand across patio to fill voids between bricks.

Very good instructions are also given here (with screed rails)
http://www.bia.org/pdfs/brick_patio.pdf

Still more instructions can be found at www.pavestone.com

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Nell