Found a better way of washing the sand down was to scrape it all back and wash down the remainder, then progressively add sand back in while washing it down until there weren't any more pinholes. Painstaking process, but it seems to have worked.
I'll probably regret not getting a compactor on there (mark these words), but I've started putting some paving down. In a nice change of pace, this has gone quicker than expected
I've done 1.5m so far out of the 5m my planning permission requires. Then, depending on how many pavers I have left, I'll swap to doing two tracks of pavers to drive down with a gravel drainage layer down the centre.
Normally these pavers don't drain very well at all. They say they will through little knobbles on the sides that space each paver out by 2mm or so, but a combination of filling that with fine sand and the gap being too narrow means it just silts up way too quickly to be useful.
So, to combat this I've spaced mine ~12mm apart and filled the gap with 10mm gravel. Once I'm confident it all fits properly I'll wash some more sharp sand down it to help solidify it a little more.
Oh, and the pavers are another lucky free situation. My other half's brother recently bought a bit of land that had been used for dumping, and happened to have hundreds of pavers all over it. We're still digging them out, but I'm sure there will be enough to cover the required 5m.
I'll probably regret not getting a compactor on there (mark these words), but I've started putting some paving down. In a nice change of pace, this has gone quicker than expected
I've done 1.5m so far out of the 5m my planning permission requires. Then, depending on how many pavers I have left, I'll swap to doing two tracks of pavers to drive down with a gravel drainage layer down the centre.
Normally these pavers don't drain very well at all. They say they will through little knobbles on the sides that space each paver out by 2mm or so, but a combination of filling that with fine sand and the gap being too narrow means it just silts up way too quickly to be useful.
So, to combat this I've spaced mine ~12mm apart and filled the gap with 10mm gravel. Once I'm confident it all fits properly I'll wash some more sharp sand down it to help solidify it a little more.
Oh, and the pavers are another lucky free situation. My other half's brother recently bought a bit of land that had been used for dumping, and happened to have hundreds of pavers all over it. We're still digging them out, but I'm sure there will be enough to cover the required 5m.