The Brew Cabin

Hi Tony,
I have watched a video called "Block Paving Made Easy" by Teamwork Productions. They pave the area first and then run a Wacker round the edge and then install the edging and then compact the main area of paving. Im sure you would agree this is the wrong way to do it. You must do the edgings first to contain the sand. Some of their edgings are blocks layed on mortar on the drive blocks which I assume is to reduce cutting in. It all looks a bit of a bodge to me.

Best regards

I've not seen that video, but I've seen some contractors work that arse-about way, and I've seen the so-called retainer edgings shift within 12 months because they weren't properly laid.

You're right that it's done to minimise cutting, which is fair enough, but it makes it impossible to lay to specific dimensions or layouts, and if there's drift in the patterning, then that drift is replicated within the edging. It's not a laying method we would ever use or approve, let alone put on video!