Building a path

[forgotten_aria]

Sometime after we moved in, they paved our walk. In the middle of the walk was a drain. The walk sank and the drain was floating above the path and was less than useful. We also have a low point in our driveway, so I decided the best way to remedy this was to get someone to dig up the asphault walk and for me to dig out the drain, replace it with a

Comments

[blk]

That looks fantastic!

[nathanw]

Ooh, that does look nice.

Our patio was done with polymeric sand, and it's been.... ok. But there are a lot of different kinds, and it's quite likely that the person who did ours didn't pick a good one.

[forgotten_aria]

What have been the issues?

[nathanw]

Mostly, the ants chew through it with abandon. Our patio has dozens and dozens of little anthills made out of polymeric sand debris. This is probably not great for the long-term stability or weed resistance of the stuff.