How to Lay a Flagstone Patio

Laying a Flagstone Patio can be quite the task, but the results speaks for itself. There are three main steps to creating your flagstone patio, whether it’s wet laid or dry laid.

Step 1 – Prepare the Base

This step involves digging your footing or your slab. Make sure you have a level part of the yard to work in. You may need to level the area out by cutting and moving dirt around.

Step 2 – Building Base Material

The base could be a concrete slab or crushed stone. Usually the wet lay patios use the concrete base with about 4 inches of a poured slab that will become the permanent structure where you mortar the flagstone. If it’s a dry laid patio, with granular product, then you would use crushed stone, or gravel, or a granular product that you can put in and compact it in place. This is the middle or stabilizer product on which the stone rests.

Step 3 – Laying the Stone

This is where you actually get the individual pieces out and make them fit, like a jigsaw puzzle. Your flagstone can be squares and rectangles or all different shapes. No matter which shapes you choose, make sure they all fit together in a beautiful pattern. Sometimes you may have to cut the stone to make it fit.

Cutting the stone with a chisel and hammer is easy. Just draw a line with a pencil and start scoring the stone on both sides until it breaks apart.

That’s all there is to it. Call us up to order flagstone for your next project.

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How to Lay a Flagstone Patio