- 1). Throw down a length of rope along either side of where you want the thin bricks to create a walkway. This area should be 2 inches wider than you want the final walkway.
- 2). Dig down about 3 inches into the ground using a spade. Use the rope as a guide and level the ground between.
- 3). Add 1 inch of graded base to the area you dug out. Wet the base with a garden hose and compact it with a hand tamper. Repeat the watering and tamping process a few times to fully compact the base.
- 4). Add 1-by-4 boards to the sides of the walkway. Dig down into the ground and bury the boards about halfway down. Use a mallet to pound them further into the ground.
- 5). Install wooden stakes every 3 feet around the outside edges of the 1-by-4s. Pound them into place with the mallet until the are even with the 1-by-4 surface. Attach the two with deck screws.
- 6). Pour in about 1 inch of masonry sand. Compact it with the hand tamper. Place a piece of lumber that stretches from one side of the walkway to the other on the sand. Pull it across to level the sand.
- 7). Add a row of thin bricks on either side of the walkway. Lay the bricks lengthwise, one in front of the other, and give each a tap with the mallet.
- 8). Pull a shorter length of lumber across the inside edges of the two rows of brick to re-level the sand.
- 9). Install the remaining bricks by piecing them in place within the walkway on top of the sand. Give each a tap with the mallet.
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Pour a large amount of stone dust overtop your thin brick pathway. Distribute the stone dust across the bricks with a push broom, getting it inside all the joints. - 11
Wet the brick walkway and add more sand if all the joints between the thin bricks are not filled yet. - 12
Check back in one week. If you can see empty spaces in the joints, add more stone dust like you did before.
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