This Old House expert home improvement advice on driveway selections, planning, installation, maintenance, and repair. Information on pavers, gravel, asphalt, and other surfacing and edging materials.
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Q: I'd like to create walkways and a driveway for my 18th-century house using something called soil cement, a material used extensively at Colonial Williamsburg. Can you tell me more about it?
— Donald Boisvert, Foster, Rhode Island
"For DIYers installing concrete pavers, a running-bond pattern requires the fewest cuts, so it goes down fastest."
— Roger Cook, TOH landscape contractor
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