The Stone Art Chronicles
featuring the ongoing adventures of Devin Devine
DIY flagstone help and phone consultations
In one hour I can guide you through the entire process UPDATED 2024--yes, I still offer this service. For 9 years now I've been providing DIY consultations services, teaching homeowners, designers and contractors how to build flagstone patios, dry stone walls and...
Ask Devin: small pebbles for flagstone patio?
Pea Gravel just won't stay between Flagstone ...or will it? Hey everybody. This is the part of the show where stone artist Devin Devine answers mail! DIY Hardscape Help Phone Call Rates: $118.00 for an hour...
Ask Devin: plastic edging for flagstone?
Devin Devine stone masonry consultant devin@devineescapes.com plastic edging for flagstone? I posted a few DIY-landscape and how-to-hardscape type articles on my blog last year. Ever since then, I've been getting emails* with related questions. Let me...
Your Patio and Weeds–control, kill, prevent, or what?
UPDATED Weeds between pavers, weeds between flagstone joints TLDR: leave the weeds alone. On a natural, irregular stone patio, they often don't look too bad and with joints set tight and filled with stone dust, you usually don't get "too many". But if you must, must...
Flagstone: what to use, sand, cement, or gravel?
Devin Devine, contractor based out of Blakeslee Pennsylvania, projects competed across the USA contact devin@devineescapes.com serious inquiries only This DIY article; and the rest of the how-to section of my blog, cover much of the basics of how-to properly build...
Hiding a Storm Drain
And replacing it with an outdoor fireplace and hand-made stone benches. So what we had here was a piece of yard with a storm drain. The storm drain was installed at right about surface level, really not doing to much to catch run-off. My client had already placed a...
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