Concrete paving block is a type of floor and commonly used on roadside, walkway and etc. There is few types of paving block such as interlocking paver, landscape paver and etc. All of them have its’ own features and installation procedure.

Normally people uses concrete paving block to decorate their house’s external floor because concrete paving block has many colours and unique pattern. Paving block manufacturer mixes it with a few different of colour to make the pavers the look of natural stone, like granite or slate. Contractors use it on walkway as well.

How To Install Concrete Paving Block

1) Basecourse

Taking the existing sub-grade or soil conditions and the anticipated traffic loading into consideration, an adequate thickness of well compacted base course must be provided to ensure good pavement performance. Existing bitumen or concrete surfaces need not be removed and can act as good sub-grade.

2) Edge Restraint

Adequate edge restraints should be provided at this stage along the perimeter of paving area to prevent lateral movement of blocks. They may be in the form of concrete curbs or vertical edges of exiting structures.

3) Sand Bedding Layer

A layer of sand should be spread loose and screeded to a uniform thickness such that its compacted thickness would be approximately 30mm. It is important that the sand layer remains undisturbed prior to the laying of blocks.

4) Laying The Concrete Paving Blocks

Concrete paving blocks are placed side by side on the sand bed with gaps of approximately 2mm between adjoining blocks.

5) Cutting The Concrete Paving Blocks

Paving blocks an be cut to fit edges and awkward corners.

6) First Pavement Compaction

Block pavement is compacted with a hand-guided plate vibrator until it is firmly embedded in the sand layer.

7) Sand Filling

After first compaction, fine sand is brushed in to fill gaps in between paving blocks.

Second Pavement Compaction

Hand-guided plate vibrator is applied once again to ensure that sand filling in the gaps are fully compacted to stablize the block pavement. Steps 7 and 8 may need to be repeated until gaps are completely filled with fine sand. Once the remaining surface sand is removed, the block pavement is ready for use.

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Concrete Curb is commonly used for roadside, it’s used to avoid flood and also avoid driver and motorist drive onto the walkway and hurt the people on the walkway. There are many type of concrete curb such as basic curb, combined curb and gutter, integral curb, kassel curb, precast curb, landscape curb and etc. Precast concrete curb is commonly used by contractor because it’s easy to construct, save time and cost, minimize the wastage of materials.

Normally concrete curb is used on housing yard or garden, it’s used to decorate our garden or yard. Most probably it’s covering the grass or tree to make it neat, clean and decorative. Few days ago, I saw this when I travel to somewhere, I saw the concrete curb was covering a type of red paver block.

As you see on the photo above, the concrete curb is surrounding the red paver block. There is few simple types of paver block such as interlocking paver, landscape paver and etc. Normally paver block is made from cement, concrete and aggregate. Many people likes to use paver block instead of laying concrete slab because it’s look unique and beautiful, house owner likes to use paver block to decorate their external floor as well. Manufacturer mix it with a few different of colour to make the pavers the look of natural stone, like granite or slate.

Red Paver Block – Made from cement, concrete and aggregate.

This type of concrete curb that surround red paver block is commonly used on the place where people want to make the place look nicer. Normally it’s used on walkway and people might walk on it. This kind of concrete curb with paver block, you can simply get some concrete contractors to construct it, it’s a very small job and most of the concrete contractors can done it well. The mixture of materials and colour must be correct so that the place can be look beautiful and great!

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