AboutMarc Chapelle, ASLA Expertise As a licensed Landscape Architect, I can answer general questions about style and design, ideas and suggestions for site amenities, larger site-planning issues, or recreation and park design.
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I prefer you ask somebody else why your petunias are not as perky as they should be...I'd LOVE to tell you how can use those petunias to increase your home's value!
Experience Member, American Society of Landscape Architects (ALSA.org); Past clients have been mostly contractors, developers and local civil engineering/architecture firms, plus the occasional homeowner. Currently, I design recreational facilities for the National Park Service (DOI).
I am located in the dry Great Basin area (Greater Nevada/Utah), so the use of landscape materials OTHER than plants is emphasized. As a licensed Landscape Architect on the East and West Coasts, I have been in practice over 20 years.
Organizations ASLA (ASLA.org)
Education/Credentials BSLA in Landscape Architecture, 1989
Many additional seminars, educational venues, and classes (both taught & attended)
Awards and Honors Best Multifamily project, 1993
Best Model Home Landscaping, 1993
I am installing a concrete brick walkway. I have done the excavating and installed 3" of compacted base material. Now comes 1" of bedding sand, but I've hit a snag. I've been all over the internet trying to find out if I should screen the sand and then install the bricks on the uncompacted sand, or if I should compact the sand and then install the pavers. I've found sites that say conflicting things. I really need some expert advice. Thank you!
Answer 1" of sand is for allowing you to level the paver area more easily. If the underlaying base is compacted, then re-compacting the 1" of leveling sand is not needed...Especially if you plan on running a skid compacter over the pavers after they are installed, to "lock" them in (step #3 in the link, below).
Some folks like to use a "locking" joint sand, which is fine, too.
