My new paver patio started sinking after the first big rain
I put in a small paver patio myself about three weeks ago, thinking I did everything right. I dug down six inches, put in three inches of gravel, tamped it, then added an inch of sand. It looked great until we got that heavy rain last Tuesday. The whole corner by the house sank almost two inches, and now the pavers are all wobbly. My neighbor walked over and said, 'Kid, you didn't compact the base in thin enough layers, did you?' He was right, I just dumped all the gravel in at once and tamped the top. I had to pull up all the pavers in that section and redo the base, adding and tamping the gravel just two inches at a time. It took me a whole extra weekend to fix it. Has anyone else had this happen and found a good way to check your base is solid before you lay the final sand?