Greater skill and care are required when installing brick pavements than with other styles of paving. The crushed stone base under concrete need not be level, because the flowing concrete will fill in wherever the base below it is unlevel. While slightly different, this same principle holds true for asphalt pavements.

The most important and time-consuming step in installing brick pavers is the preparation of the base. Taking shortcuts here might result in a paver project that still looks great the day it’s installed, but it won’t hold up over time.  

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) sets engineering specifications for all types of pavements. The Interlocking Concrete Paving Institute (ICPI) uses those specs to suggest methods for concrete paver installations. We use all of this information to our best advantage when installing brick pavers all over Wisconsin. AASHTO recommends a crushed stone base of 4" for pedestrian pavements of this type, in our part of the country, which receive Equivalent Single Axle Loads (ESALs) of 50,000 or less in their lifetime. Wanting to err on the side of quality, we prepare our base beyond those standards, installing a base of crushed stone of 6-7" or more, depending on the application.

To learn more about the specific techniques we use to install pavers, you can view an article that The Post Crescent did about our company. 

We've even taught seminars on base preparation and paver installation.

With Stonehenge Brick Paving & Landscaping you'll get a paver project that will look beautiful and remain durable for years.