How to permanently eliminate weeds from you interlocking patio.
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2019
- A short video showing how to remove and restore your interlocking patio to as good as new. A DIY Guide.
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I couldnt afford the amount of beer it would take to do this job
Switch to water only. You’ll have enough money to do any job.
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Lmao! Thats awsome.
I'm looking to do this to my entire driveway as well as my back patio. I've pre-ordered 12 cases of beer. Wondering if I should have just paid someone to do it, and then only ordered a single case of beer. Probably will cost the same AND save me time!
@@GeddyRC I would come to help you but Im on the wagon
That looks fabulous. I'm so impressed with all of your hard work.
This is exactly what I’m going to do with mine.. thanks for making this video
I just found your channel. This is awesome. Thank you for sharing.
My patio was installed with the "magic" sand. It worked for a year. Same for my son's house.
Looks great...feels so inviting...
Using the wood for leveling is a great idea! Thanks for the video.
Congratulations on reclaiming new patio. Good work!
Well, now I gotta do this job too.
Great video, simple, short, clear, to the point.
Thank you. Great video, step by step instructions.
To be clear, this is not a permanent fix. I redid mine in the summer of 2018, literally washed and brushed every stone to remove any organic matter, used the poly-sand, and last year there were already a couple of weeds coming up, now up to four or five, so still not terrible and very easy to manage. The stones will invariably shift with time, allowing organic matter to insinuate itself. Ants will also create pours into which matter can insinuate itself. This process will certainly yield positive results that will last for many years, and the process is well explained, so great vid, but it is by no means permanent.
Nothing is permanent ♥
@@buddhistsympathizer1136 Truth.
@@buddhistsympathizer1136 Death is
I'm considering mortaring between mine with a frosting pipe, followed by a German schmear, because nothing else seems to be working. It's only 6 years old.
@@Nerdy-By-Nature Pour dry quickset concrete over the whole thing, sweep into all the cracks then wet down with a misty hose. No weeds will get through that (for a while).
I use boiling water. It cooks the roots of the weeds and the seeds. Voila, I always have a clean patio.
I do the same! It works better than the chemical sprays!
Sooo much easier than pulling up the entire paver system!
Tq
How do you do that? I tried it once had lots of pans on the stove... I tried to move quickly but I thought besides the first splashes the water cooled down too much already that I was just watering the plants. Please enlighten me what the trick is....
I pour boiling water over the cracks.i had a big patio and walkway weed free.
Great job!! Love it!
One very important step you didn’t mention... After laying poly sand down and sweeping into joint, You Must use a blower and remove carefully the existing dust/residue on pavers. Failing to due this step could stain all your existing pavers after water activation. Good video otherwise. 👍🏻
Nice result!
👍Amazing video! Great job!!!
This is a lot of work. Very impressed
Nice job.
Very helpful! Ty!
Didn't know there was a special sand that hardens like cement to keep weeds from coming back.
That's a great tip! THANK YOU!
It wont last though....
Nothing is permanent and poly sand hardens more like a caulk than a cement/concrete.
It is far better (and a LOT more expensive) than just plain ole sand though. It helps with weeds, but don't expect it to be a "one-n-done" deal.
I'm going to buy some and use it in my roommate's fish tank. See what happens.
Thank you for sharing. This is really good. Do you have a short video on what it looks like now, approximately 2 years later?
Great video thank you for sharing this wonderful video with us
Thanks for watching!
great video. very helpful mate
Well done!
Your patio looks lovely. The problem is after a year, you’ll start getting moss and weeds growing in it again. At least that’s what happens in my part of the country in the Northwest Pacific.
thanks a lot for sharing this video 👏👏👏👏 now i have some ideas
The weeds are just never ending on my patio, I cant use weed killer as I have a dog! You did a really good job of this patio, it looks really nice. Sue
Thanks Sue. Its alot of work but it works! And its safe.
try using vinegar, I use pickling vinegar often, put a gallon in a sprayer and away you go, do it on a hot day.
I use a mixture of 1 gallon vinegar, 1 cup salt, and a tablespoon of dish washing liquid. Works great.
I used boiling water, cooks the roots of the weeds and the seeds. Voila, i have a clean patio
@@kathleenbratti9258 how do you apply it? Mixed together? Pour or spray?
Yes this is awesome. I appreciate the plain explanation without a bunch of distracting music.
Amen, douchebags take note. Nobody wants to hear crap music when learning how to do good things.
Nice job..thank you
Hard work pays off
Wow u got some patience
Good tips for eliminating weeds
I am going through the exact same thing. In addition to removing weeds, I am changing the slope to allow for better drainage. Years ago I used sand, and like you said, eventually it absorbs dirt and weeds grow. I would like to use the product you suggested, but as you know, after time the bricks settle and need to be removed and sand put underneath. My question: Will the Magic Sand become so much like concrete that the bricks cannot be removed down the road? Also, I have just ordered Lastiseal brick sealer which is designed to allow water to better run off the bricks and most importantly eliminates moss, which some other commenter mentioned. Haven't applied it yet.
A bit late here...but anyway...
Poly sand (magic sand, poly sweep,...whatever name is used) does NOT harden like concrete. It'll be more like a caulk, and I have found (through many repairs/re-lays) is that it only seems to "harden" for the top 1/2 inch or so. It can easy be scraped of the brick with a metal trowel. It will not completely prevent weeds, but helps to stem the tide a bit. I have customers that have me powerwash, re-sand(poly) and seal every 2-3 years...and it has always needed it by then.
Base material should be a good 6 inches of crushed gravel, heavily compacted...and an inch or so of slag sand(available at many landscape supply yards). Ants seem to love the sand base and will make some of it disappear on you...gravity will bring the brick down where the ants removed your sand. Chipmunks will cause the same problem too...but worse! Have never had those issue with gravel and slag base.
Plus, if you’re going through all that trouble anyway, you might as well lay down a roll of weed block under the stones. It will prevent weeds from coming up from below the stones for at least five more years and still allow any water that gets through to drain.
This is the only way and the best way to do this. The best thing I like about cleaning each paver by hand is that I learned how it was as laid before me.
Your opening line is a work of poetry
Why thank you!
We used the polymer sand on our walkway to the pool about ten years ago. It is extremely tiresome, but you must sweep and sweep and sweep the sand until you get it all into the paver cracks and off the pavers. Once done and all is set, it's beautiful and will last a good many years, though ours was not permanent. We had two issues and if not for these issues, I suspect the polymer sand would last for many, many years, or until the ground shifted! Our first issue was ANTS! They can come through just about anything and over the years, they worked their way up through the whiterock base, then the sand, then the polymer sand and we started seeing little light-colored anthills! We would kill the ants, but the damage was done underneath and access was there for the weeds (and bermuda) to keep coming up. We should probably have just put more polymer down repeatedly, but didn't. Second issue was so much rain that the entire yard remained soaked long enough that it weakened the cohesiveness of the stones and they started separating, which brings me to the final point. Make sure you have a good, solid frame or some type of system to hold the paver edges in place. The toe-in on ours ended up being useless.
We are about to take our walkway back up and reinstall it following this order: (1) Re-level the ground, (2) build/install frame outlining walkway, (3) put down ant killer and weed killer (like we did before installing our BURIED Doughboy above-ground pool), (4) apply sand, then screed, (5) lay paver panels/mats bought at Home Depot (this negates need for gravel base), (6) install pavers, (7) apply the POLYMER sand.
The ants are a major headache when trying to keep the pavers in place.
the 'soldier' course should always be cemented in.
Good job, lucky you have a helping wife ... mine is no where to be seen 'til it finishes.
How i fixed my weedy pavers years ago was go over the weeds with the whipper snipper, then use the pressure washer to clean all the pavers and get all the dirt out from in between the pavers, let it dry for a day, once dry I gap sand everything and wet it down so its all locked in place, once dry i used a bottle of round up over the locking sand for good measure... all up only about 3 hours of easy labour spread across 2 days.
LOL love your dog
He's the best Pup! Thanks
After done everything when we need to. water to clean stone I see you put the water but I don't know how long after
Excellent! Just out of curiousity, what would be the procedure to put artificial turf over the top of the pavers? Would you still have to remove them all and use the Magic Sand, before laying down the turf? Or would you just remove the pavers altogether?
Pouring boiling water on part of the driveway that had weeds got rid of the problem. Now every spring when small self seeding weeds start to show up , a few kettles of boiling water does the trick.
I have pavers that been in my yard for over 30 years and uneven. How did you get the pavers to come out the ground
great
💥 Great video and job. After you use that product does it block water from seeping through which could cause lengthy puddling and poor drainage.?? That’s the one thing that I like about a brick paver walkway over solid concrete.
Thanks! Water seems to drain through without any issue.
@@OntarioLakeside Interesting and thanks for the reply. The way this product reacts with water and how it was described I was thinking it was like mortar between bricks.
Looks😅great thanks!💪
A few days without rain you say 🤔
Watching from England
HA! 😀
Wow!
Why the polymeric sand gets softer when wet?
How to de-weed your patio: step 1, pull up your patio... 😬
I tried everything else, in the end it was easier to do it once and never again.
@@OntarioLakeside Who told you it would be never again???
@@82attilatoth Ok maybe not never, but hopefully many years!
@Alberto Macstaire I did powerwash several times each summer but it never kept the weeds away for more than a week or so.
@Alberto Macstaire no i didn't. I wanted to be sure no roots or organic material was in there before I added the polymeric sand. I dont think the power washer gets it all out.
Now apply some wet look sealant to make the stones really pop. :)
can you post the link where you bought that particular poly sand.....or a good brand that's comparable?
We got it at home depot
To be honest, I'd get rid of the interlocking and pour a concrete pad and stamp it, 100% lifetime weed free
If I had to do it over from square one, I would agree with you, because pavers are a major pain in the ass, even after installing the polymeric sand ... but now after spending a shitload to initially put in a paver driveway, I'm too cheap and too stubborn to go back and switch them out for concrete.
Love it!! I need you to come and help me with my brick driveway. Please!!
Good of the dog to help out
It looks like a brand new patio cause it literally is one 🌞
I have found ww2 surplus flamethrowers do the job pretty well....plus i can light my fire pit and bbq from the front of the house as well...
My neighbours may object to that!
@@OntarioLakeside I
Bet!! Cool video though thanks for the
Info
Looks like it took 3 people and a dog from your footage! Haha thanks for the video:)
" concrete like " ? how concrete like ? does that mean you can't remove the stones for repairs or to access pipes that may be under the patio ?
Wonder would epoxy coating floor stops weed from growing?
Mate what you did is brilliant. Its back breaking, doing every single block by hand. I want to know why you couldn't just pressure wash it.
You could just water on a 50/50 bleach water mix, powerhose the lot especially between the cobs. Then sweep in the sand when everything, as you say, is absolutely dry. It's much less labour-intensive and it gets a really good result.
I tried this but my weeds must be super weeds, they did not die off.
@@OntarioLakeside Did you turbo hose it? Coz those don't look like turbo weeds to me. Another way is to
Just buy some rock salt in spring and brush it in. Everything is dead in a week and you do the bleach and powerwash. Anyway you did a cracking job. Now that coronavirus lockdown is here I might have done exactly as you did. Stay safe.
@Old chunk of coal. Just the Patio!
@Old chunk of coal. I agree!
that looks great. that would take me about a month to do tho
Mine is 10,000 sqft, looking for a reasonable alternative than removing each stone one by one
Hate to tell you....polymetric sand does not keep weeds from growing. It's not a concrete fill. I have a patio that has polymetric and it started weeding up after a year.
Sorry to hear that. Its been over a year and Ive only had a few weeds start.
I have alot of patios in my garden and the weeds are mad I get alot of dandelion weeds what is the best way to get rid of them
I love it and want one now. But im worried winter freezes will crack the bricks.
No need to worry...those brick will more than likely outlast you.
I've had mine in for over 15 years and they're all still perfectly intact....even through all the freeze/thaws in Michigan.
I did this 2 years ago. Back breaking labor. Looked good for a while, then weeds came back again. Forget it.
My driveway/patio is 3000 square feet, so I think I will just keep limping along with weed killer and regular sweeping. If this small area took two days, I shutter to think how much time it would take to redo mine. There are a few areas where pavers have sunk. I would like to redo those some day. I have a friend whose driveway is about 20 years old and he had success with a thorough high pressure power-washing all of the joints and then filling them with polymeric sand. That was still a big job, but nothing compared to actually removing and cleaning the pavers.
my back hurts thinking about 3000sf!
Hi there...so how exactly were you able to loosen the stones?
They are just laid in place so you can pick them up one by one.
can you use cement instead of the magic sand?
I think cement would be so fine it would stick to the face of the interlocking and look bad.
Wowwwww
Two years later is it still completely weed free?
Seeds of any kind only need moisture and a minimum temperature to germinate so I'd predict that you've had some problems with weeds managing to germinate in some parts if you ignore it completely; although you're way more in control now.
I had the same problem and decided to view brick patio cleaning as a once-a-month maintenance job ranging from half an hour in summer to a few minutes in the winter. I use a patio wire brush to remove any soil/debris between the bricks, sweeping in standard patio sand once a year where needed. Once it's neglected, things become increasingly worse as the debris allows perennial weeds and grass to establish, and I no longer allow this to happen: hence it now looks great all year around just from a little routine maintenance.
I have had some small weeds rooting in the top of the joints. Nothing from under the bricks. I spray with a vinegar, salt and water mix about once a month. You are right that its important not to let it get out of control.
Yes
"2 people. 2 days". Next frame shows 3 people working, lol... But it looks good now, thanks for sharing.
That third person was our teen, didn't stick around long.
@@OntarioLakeside a normal healthy teen then - that's a good sign. 🤣
Correction: Three people...and a dog!
@@iimasahm6438 Good dog, not much help. 🐶
If I pressure wash, how much PSI I need. I want to buy a pressure washer to do this job. Also, would this get rid of moss as well ?
moss hates iron, sprinkle with bloodmeal and water it in.
3300 worked for me. Got a craftsman pressure washer at Lowe’s for $450 and used the 0 degree tip.
I got a Ryobi 1900 psi pressure washer for 149 bucks www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-1900-PSI-1-2-GPM-Cold-Water-Wheeled-Electric-Pressure-Washer-RY1419MTVNM/311223300...then I bought the Ryobi pressure washer surface cleaner www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-12-in-2-300-PSI-Electric-Pressure-Washers-Surface-Cleaner-RY31012/306343083.
This combo along with the Mold Armor detergent you can add to your pressure washer...www.homedepot.com/p/Mold-Armor-1-Gal-Multi-Purpose-Pressure-Washer-Cleaner-FG583/311454346
Cleans like a Dream! I remove mold and algae from my Travertine and pavers...
What's the name of the pavers?
I'm about to do a new patio, going to use a lot of weed killer & a weed barrier. I say that to say I would have sprayed some weed killer before I put the sand down.
Where did you purchase the Magic Sand, am soo fed up with weeds.
We got ours at Home Depot.
Landscaping co
Magic sand only works for a short while. .....Ask me how I know
I want grow this grass in my tiles what to do?
Does it still look good 4 years later or has the weeds returned? I'm thinking about doing this on a patio that is many decades old
some weeds have come back but its still 95% weed free.
Good video....however, I have a huge pool deck of pavers and it would take me a month of Sundays and about 20 people to do it. So I need a way to cover over them. Hate even looking at it now.
It is a lot of work for sure!
Spray it all down with pickling vinegar, kills all vegetation, don't get it on your lawn. then have someone power wash it.
Pretty drastic way of getting rid of weeds!
Great video, and I appreciate the effort of redoing the entire patio, but you could have just power washed the dirt out then layed polymetric sand. No need to pull up the entire patio for some weeds.
@@braydenmueller don't mean to be rude, but I've done it before and it works, not sure what kind of mutant weeds you have but you can use vinegar or bleach to kill everything in the patio cracks, wait a week or 2 and then power wash everything out.
@@braydenmueller meh, you can do it the hard way if you like.
@@braydenmueller lol, sure
I appreciate the video, I have the weeds but my walkway also has sunk middle of the path so video will help with both issues for me. Now to get started is another issue...
Just an update, I redid my entire back patio using just a power washer and pulling larger weeds. Took about 3 hours to get all the dirt out, but it works
You can use this on your garden , front of home too.
my dad put down pavers and I advised him not to but went ahead. heart broke with it from year one. spent fortunes on the stuff you're using but still the debris gets caught. the best option is printed/patterned concrete or that stuff you put on with polymer resin. that stuff you used absolutely has to be put on very carefully and when it is bone dry. don't even dream of doing it in a hurry or you'll make a mess
Agreed the surface must be dry, That said its well into spring and I have no weeds. So far so good!
What is the condition now?? Weed grown or not?
Can I use a mix of cement , all purpose sand mixed together instead ? I think this will be cheaper and stronger
if you get any on your pavers it will never come off.
@@OntarioLakeside it’s fine because I am using this for concrete walk-maker , not planing on removing it , plus the cement will help block the weeds .
Can the effects of the sand be undone so the soil beneath is still healthy?
Yes, the sand is hard but can be broken up
I started doing this and realized it’s way too back breaking. I got 4 bricks done and my back went stiff. Go get yourself a 3300 PSI pressure washer, blow the weeds and organic material out of the cracks. Get the polymetric sand, then rent a plate compactor from Lowe’s for $79 per day. Compact the hell out of it and mission accomplished.
We have the same problem, so we decided to put up a new bricks, so we hired someone to do it, and his been doing this job for like a decade, first he put a rocks, then compress it using this machine, next he apply it's almost like a sand and then the bricks, he also apply this sand to fell up the gaps, few days later, small weeds start to grow in every gaps, any suggestions please? TIA
You could kill the weeds chemically using RoundUp (Be careful not to get it on your skin or clothes. Shower afterwards and wash clothing.), strong vinegar with dish soap & a salt, a flame weed burner or boiling water. Weed seeds live a long time and exposure to sunshine tells them to germinate. Keep doing this periodically during a summer until no more weeds pop up between the cracks, remove the dead weeds by hand or weed trimmer and then use the polymeric sand treatment.
@@tanyawales5445 thanks a lot Tanya, really appreciate it, I'm gonna try the hot water first ♥️
Like anything else, polymeric sand will disappeared over time and plants will make a come back. I am thinking the only solution might be to have bigger stones, and there are not as many gaps to grow weeds.
power washer takes 20 minutes then drop in paving sand once dry hit it with weed killer once a month in the summer. tearing up all those stones is way too slow.
Your patio must be the size of a small bathtub if you can pressure wash it in 20 minutes.
If anyone is searching for "polymetric sand" (as he says at around 2:57) you should be searching for "polymeric sand" just FYI.
EnviroSAND claims to be more effective than polymeric sand.
www.envirobond.com/how-to/polymeric-sand-problems/
Hard work and the weeds will come back later soon. Good luck.
I bought a new house after watching this video 😂
I think you mean polymeric sand, not polymetric. Thanks. Great video.
How is it a year later, did it work? Thanks
Its holding up really well. I have had a some moss and a few small weeds, they seem to have a hard time getting there roots in.
Ontario Lakeside , that’s excellent, thanks.
Can we use cement powder to fill the gaps ?
Nno, the cement will stick to the surface
@@OntarioLakeside thanks
We do this every few years. I am using plain normal sand. Why? Its not only weeds… ants are building nests, water rinses gravel out and in arid 2015 a linden tree pushed roots between gravel and stones. in 2007 a bamboo from the neighbor pushed roots out over 5 meters. Also we work with two persons, one pressure washing stones and soaking them in some solution against regrow of lichen ( not sure here, I'm German and I mean "Flechte"), the other sifting and releveling the gravel. Rubber mallets and a dozend 3mm thick tin plates are indispensable tools for this job - the first is minimizing the gaps, the second is securing the newly laid stones while there is no border yet.
Thanks, Sounds like you have a good method.
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Thanks for the video. How does it look now?
@@smshaikh Thanks. I have had a few weeds start where ants have burrowed into the joints. They are typically small and I am able to pull them and full the spot with a bit more sand.