Paving the Way...

So it's straight back into it here at Rocklands- my feet have barely touched the carpet and I'm already outside helping finish the pool at the Adventure Centre. The whole area needs to be paved and over the last two days we have all but finished! Hurrah! The project has been dragging on a little bit, but the end is finally in sight!

First we levelled the ground around the pool and used fine grade builders sand as a base for the paving (we had previously used a compactor to get the ground nice and hard). Then we started laying the paving, going for a slightly random rustic look that wasn't too uniform.

Then, when we were fairly happy with the pattern, we used some nice brown stone chippings to fill the gaps between the pavers.

So all that's left is to sweep a cement/sand mix over the top of the whole thing, into all the gaps and cracks and then let it get rained on or let the dew work its magic, and knit the whole thing together. Christopher and Nathan helped as well..in their own way...