How To Build A Small Patio DIY Cutting Round Edges

My favorite way to cut standard size 3.5" x 8" brick pavers DIY is with an angle grinder, brick chisel, or some other power tool with a masonry blade. Because the pavers are so small the angles are actually square, not round, which makes them easier to cut.

Mark the cut with a pencil by eye or by measuring. I like to do it by eye because it's faster and just as accurate.

Make sure to allow for about a 1/16th" thickness, which is about a saw blade, the allow for joint sand.

Once the cuts are all made, install the bricks, tamp them down, and install your sand. Then make one more tamping to wiggle the sand in place as tightly as possible.

[johnhiggins]

A pleasure to watch a guy who makes it look simple.

[whoshatwat]

To make things fit cut them, I don’t know how I’ve managed all my life without this amazing work jack???

[MrPick]

Beautiful work, clean lines....an absolute pleasure to watch! Thank you.

[rusticmallorca]

Enjoyed that cheeky bit of clean up at the bottom of the brick following the cut as the blade wasn’t quite long enough to go all the way through.

Nice.!

[williamevans]

Please bevel the top of the cut to match the stock brick.

[TurinTuramber]

Worth getting a block snapper if doing often.

[harold]

Please can anyone tell me what he is laying it on? Sorry not in the trade. It looks really neat 👍

[MarkOliver-pi]

I use the grinder to put back the bevel on the cut side.

[peterhuggins]

He should be using a brick saw with water to prevent fine dust from getting into his lungs.

[davidchi]

Dangerous, having no guard on the cutting machine.

[RM-ogni]

How many bricks are you able to cut on one blade?

[johnsrabe]

I appreciate everything in this video … except put a shop vac behind that grinder! That brick dust is super bad.

[PlaneManHehehe]

I was trying to cut one but I couldn't find one with a rounded Edge

[BillAllor]

Make sure you take that 1/8-inch off for expansion

[JeremeyHowlett]

Someone should build a diamond blade rope cutter machine that’s the same size as a tile table saw.

[josephpena]

Why do people usea grinder with the gaurd taken off, I've known too many people that cut them selves like that some very serious

[bigfitzg]

I was watching some guys doing this in my HOA on a garage driveway . They were free styling there cuts and blowing tons of dust onto the neighbors yard and driveway o and their beau brand new BMW . Back in the day the tile guys would at least have a cardboard surround so the dust wouldn’t blow all over. Just saying.

[brianswan]

No water? No mask?
(lungs need to be dust FREE)

[josvandiepen]

Use the damned safety guard on your grinder. What is so difficult about that?

[sparkfishes]

Use water if you don't want to get silicosis IT IS ILLEGAL TO CUT WITH OUT WATER IN THE UK