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[quote=Anonymous]I did. It's 12x15. Squared out the area and I hired help to dig it out. Put down gravel and sandstone, then rented a machine shat stamps down the layers and then put down 2.5" Pennsylvania bluestone that I purchased from a place in fall church. My yard is level, but I made sure I properly graded the slope (there's a standard slope, something like 1" for every 10 feet) so runoff goes away from the house and onto the downslope for the driveway. Fwiw - I did this as a single woman in my late 30s. I just googled everything. I was in no rush, so I took my time. Decks were way out of my budget. This was really just manual labor and planning. I was in great shape and viewed the work as cross training. Toughest parts: digging it out and trying to purchase evenly cut stones to make the leveling easier. [/quote]
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