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Getting The Tools Needed to Install a Paver Return to index
When you decide that you would like to install a paver of some kind there are a few tools needed.
If you want have the job done for you all you need is a phone and a phone book. You then call up your local landscape contractor and he or she will be glad to come to your house and install a paver for you.
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However if you like to do things yourself then a few more special tools are needed.
They are:
Wooden stakes
Wide blade masons chisel
Masons string (twine)
Stiff bristle street broom
3-5 pound hammer
Hard tooth garden rake
Chalk line
25 ft. measure tape
1" diameter sand screed guides (pipe, wood, etc.)
6-8 ft. 2" x4" or 2" x6"
Small pry bar
4 ft. Level
Wheelbarrow
Flat shovel
These tools you will probably have to rent:
3hp to 5hp plate compactor (not a jumping jack)
Mason diamond saw
Block/Paver splitter