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The hand tools you’ll need to install Willow Creek
Paving Stones are available at your local hardware
store. Power tools can be rented
at most equipment rental stores. Your Willow Creek
dealer will be able to help you with all of your
paving stone components.
Click
here for the full printable PDF Installation and
Estimating Guidelines document.
HAND TOOLS YOU’LL FIND HELPFUL
- Tape measure
- Spray paint to mark project area
- Shovel
- Wheelbarrow
- Hand tamper
- Wooden stakes and transit or string level to
mark grade
- Mallet
- Knife or heavy scissors
(for cutting underlayment fabric)
- Hard-tooth rake
- Hand saw (to cut edge restraint)
- 4-foot hand level
- Screed guides
(1-inch O.D. iron pipe)
- Screed board (2" x 4" long enough
to span screed guides)
- Masonry trowel
- Mason’s string line
- Wide-blade mason’s chisel
- Stiff-bristle push broom
POWER TOOLS YOU MAY NEED TO RENT
- Vibrating plate compactor
- Masonry saw with diamond-tip blade
PAVING STONE COMPONENTS
- Willow Creek Paving Stones
- Aggregate base material
3/4-inch crushed stone (including finer
particles) typically used for road base.
- Bedding sand
Coarse, washed sand suitable for masonry.
- Edge restraints with 3/8” x 10” landscape
spikes
- Joint sand
Dry, washed sand, free of large aggregate
that would prevent it from freely flowing into
joints. Polymeric joint sand may be used to
prevent loss due to water or erosion.
- Willow Creek Paving Stones Underlayment
Fabric (if necessary)
- Paving-stone sealant (optional)
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