Defective Blocks

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Recently I had a driveway contractor to block pave my drive and I am struggling to get him to come back and replace two or three individual broken blocks and one with a manufacturing defect. How do I go about replacing these blocks myself without disturbing the surrounding blocks?

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See the Repair & Maintenance section of the website.

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Thanks for the reply Tony. I didn't realize it was as simple as that to replace blocks. I was thinking previously that by drilling and bolting a steel bracket to the block and jiggle this to remove the block and prevent adjacent blocks from getting damaged from wedged chisels or bolsters. Thanks.

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Wewll, you could do all that, if you had half a day to spare, but just prising out tye blocks with a couple of trowels works fine for me!

There are, ackshirely, special tools (at an equally special price) that can be use to extract blocks from a completed pavement. They go by the strange name of 'Block Extraction Tools', but they are are no better than using two trowels. :)