How We Built It

A long brick driveway, in six panels.

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1 · Layout. A driveway starts as string, stakes and a slope.

Water runs downhill.

Stakes in. Opinions out.

THWACK!
2 · Base. Everything you admire later sits on something nobody sees.

Nobody sees the base. Everybody feels it.

More gravel. Then more gravel.

BRRRRR
3 · Curbing. Granite holds the driveway in and the lawn out.

Granite weighs what it weighs.

Left. No, my left.

CLUNK
4 · Sand bed. A screed board turns a pile of sand into a very flat pile of sand.

Level. Not almost level.

Sand has no opinions. Good.

SHHHK
5 · Bricks. Herringbone interlocks, so it stays put.

Straight lines were too easy.

Measure twice. The brick only gets cut once.

ZZZZZT
Long curved herringbone brick driveway with granite curbing, installed by Magic Tools Contracting
6 · The real thing. Yes, this one’s a photo. Nobody drew the trees.

Worth every brick.

Now do the neighbor’s.

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