I'm so sick and tired of mowing the lawn. Can I just cover the grass with concrete paving slabs? I don't want to bother with digging or foundations or gravel or anything, can I just lay them directly on the grass?
I'm so sick and tired of mowing the lawn. Can I just cover the grass with concrete paving slabs?
It'll look like shit and crack to rubble over the years but sure? Unless you have an HOA no one will stop you.
Personally I would rent a tiller, till it all underground, and then seed with clover or some other ground cover but I'm not a homosexual so many you would prefer it the other way.
>Unless you have an HOA no one will stop you
That's not really true. Most places will have a limit on the percentage of a lot that you can make into an impervious surface, mostly it's to keep drainage/runoff problems from happening, but also to keep people from building giant houses on tiny lots. Anyway, if it's reported to officials that you've covered your entire yard in impervious concrete tiles and they do impose a maximum impervious area regulation there could be problems. Check with your local zoning office to see how much of your yard you're actually allowed to cover.
OP, my advice would be to use something that water can go through. Or just hire someone to mow your grass.
>Most places will have a limit on the percentage of a lot that you can make into an impervious surface, mostly it's to keep drainage/runoff problems from happening,
This. In my county, your side and rear yards can't be more than 30% impervious on an surface area basis.
Yes but weeds will grow up through the edges of each paver.
Do the math. How many pavers? how heavy are they? how much fricking pain in the ass is it to set them?
Pay someone to mow it.
Better yet, get a wife and a riding mower and have her wear a bikini while mowing.
Gravel yards exist and are ESG boosting
>ESG
No because gravel mining.
recycled concrete "urbanite" grindings
The gravel in my garden is the slag from the African child cobalt mines that are used to produce batteries for EVs. Even after shipping it all the way over here on bulk freighters its basically carbon neutral.
>ESG boosting
Only if it's the communal pod unit yard. You get access with pod+ subscription.
It’s illegal here because, if everyone did it, there would be too much runoff.
Yeah, there was one guy that did it, neighbour didn’t like the look, so they banned it for everybody, probably forever.
I have some in my garden, and the grass is not only creeping up along the cracks, but also positively burying all slaps with a fresh layer of grass.
bronze shavings the copper will inhibit growth, maybe copper sulfate, it is sold in gardening stores useful for etching tools
Just get a clover or moss law. Bonus points for infecting your boomer neighbors lawns and improving it.
Just mow your lawn you lazy homosexual it's the best meditation time you can get
Fricking pavers are $37 a piece where i live no matter how much I suck up to Karen at the contractors desk. Frick why can't i get a pallet of 32 delivered and enjoy some comfortable clean flat ground. FRICK!!!!!!
At that price, it's literally worth it to just buy quikrete and make your own. At $6 for a 90lb bag of ready-mix, that should net you 4 or 5 pavers.
Hell, if that's what they are going for in your area, maybe you could start selling them on FB and make a ton of easy cash. At $1.50/each in material costs, you could undercut the big box store by 50% and still have a fricking 1000% profit margin.
how does a 90 lb bag of ready mix produce 5 pieces of 75 lb patio slabs sir
>Can I just cover the grass with concrete paving slabs?
No.
Most cities require you to have a lawn, both for looks and to help control storm drainage.
Even if your city didn't, paving slabs are a shit idea. You'd have to grout or seal between slabs to stop shit from growing up between them. It'll look like shit, especially when the slabs start settling.
Find some neighborhood kid to mow it for you.
Holy shit you're moronic. You're going to build molds, pour pavers, wait for them to cure, unmold them, and stack them somewhere until you have enough to cover the lawn? Why not just pour the ready-mix right on the lawn? You really think it'd be profitable to make and sell them? Who is going to buy your lumpy, shitty, un-reinforced paving slabs rather than the nice, uniform ones at the store? Ready-mix isn't the same as proper concrete either, and your shit pavers will crumble after a year or so in the elements.
>mmm I wish this were just dead concrete so I could spend more time posting on PrepHole dot com slash dee eye why
I'm thinking of wasteland. Any free idea?
Goat.
Most of what's 'green' is just an invasive weed, anyway. The grasses are unnatural. Real prairie grass has roots 8-15ft deep.
Dumb idea. Will be destroyed in a few years without proper prep under the pavers and weeds are going to pop up all over in the joints.
This
And this. I went to full clover and only mow every 3 weeks or even more depending on rain stimulating growth. All my trees are getting shots of nitrogen from my cuttings and it doesn't get yellow. Spots from my dogs like grass does.
Just buy a robot to mow your lawn like I did. Three years and going strong.
That's probably fine if your yard is the size of a postage stamp.
Mine handles an acre. You could always get more if needed. Are you saying that’s harder than replacing an acre with pavers?
Why no false grass OP? It looks like grass but you don't need to mow it.
Turn your lawn into meat.
Stop mowing it, it'll flourish.
just get a sheep or two and stop being a whiny nonce
Soil sterilant and crushed asphalt to cover the dust.
Just hire a Mexican from thumbtack to mow it for you. That's what I did. $100 every two weeks
Are you paying that guy 50$/half hour?
If you want to pave I'd reccomend getting a getting a foundation done propperly, if you can, get it angled to slope to the edge of the lawn and install floor drainage, otherwise you'll have to angle the paving when setting it, witch if you use nice large slabs that look better, will be a pain in the ass, if you dont angle it then you'll have water settle and become an algal pool and stain the paving. And don't bother paving if you don't have a foundation, it's false economy, you'll need to repave in 5 years as the ground shifts.
calcium chloride, landscape tarp, and gravel.
anon, this is what we did.
remove the grass and some soil as well, dig down a little bit. Place in a tarp to prevent weeds from growing through from the bottom. Place large river stones (round, not jagged) on top. Now you have a lawn replacement that will still allow water to pass through, but will not look super ugly. Keep in mind you may still need to pull weeds.
Or you could just the native flora grow back?