Convert wooden patio to flagstone (pic heavy)

[Efren]

Hello amigos, so we've lived in our house for about 10 years and it came with a wooden patio which we could tell the previous owners did not take good care of it. We knew eventually that it would need to be replaced. Well, three months ago I happen to put my foot though one of the floor boards and we knew it was time. But instead of redoing it with wood, we decided to do flagstone. Also, I wanted to incorporate a fire place and a custom made smoker/grill. The original deck was 20 by 30 but we decided that we didn't need so much patio so we are do No a 15 by 17.

[Efren]

Here's the deck being torn down

[Efren]

It took me about two months working on the weekend to tear it all down.

[Efren]

I went with a sand base. Luckily my fil's property has a ton of it.

[Efren]

Here's the sand evened out

[Efren]

Bought a ton of flagstone and started to lay it down. I thought I had bought enough, but I ended up having to go buy another half ton, and I still came up a bit short.

[Efren]

Bought a pallet of solid cinder blocks for $24 @ .60.
Originally 4.55 each. They didn't know how many in a pallet so they guesstimated 55. I talked them down to 40. So, 69 total in the pallet. Originally it should of been $313. 95 and I got it for $24.00.

A SAVING OF $289.95

[Efren]

Here's the fireplace going up. The flagstone I used on the ground is 1.75 inches thick. I'm going to buy 1 inch thick flagstone for the fireplace and to make a border against the house. The fireplace is going to be propane.

[Efren]

I've been grouting for the past two weeks in every chance I get.

[Efren]

Here's a before and after power wash. I might of gone a little too crazy with the power washer and I think I'm going t have to go back and fill some holes.

[Efren]

This is kinda like how I want the fireplace to look (except the flagstone will be vertical instead of horizontal). I found the skulls on amazon and I'm going to order them soon. I already ordered the propane fireplace kit but I need to buy an extension hose that I will run under the flagstone and into the custom grill I'm going to build on the right side of the patio.

[bwssr]

Sweet

[Pedernal]

That is awesome!! Good work...

[BrandonH]

Looks great. The only thing I would suggest is lining the interior of the fire pit with fire bricks. I've heard horror stories about cinder blocks or regular bricks exploding.

[Dale Moser]

That style of gas burner is not going to create enough heat to blow up the block.