Build a Flagstone Pathway In 5 Minutes

In this video I share a time-lapse of me building a walkway out of flagstone from my front yard to my backyard. You'll get to see the entire process including digging down, tamping the dirt, laying down the gravel base, leveling the layer of decomposed granite, placing the flagstones, cutting the flagstones, and finally leveling the flagstones.

I've already done a video explaining exactly how to build this step by step, so be sure to watch that. However, I think this will give you a really good idea of what the process actually looks like.

This project took me about twenty hours to complete from start to finish. I completed it over a period of seven days working anywhere from 1.5hrs to 4hrs each day. There's a lot of digging and it is back breaking work so I wouldn't recommend doing this for 8 hours a day unless you are used to this type of work already (for example if you install floors for a living.)

I think I could have finished this a bit faster, but I had to dig around a lot of roots from a nearby tree and avoid damaging a sprinkler line in the process. I also had to repair the sprinkler line.

[Gladys]

Great walkway but an explanation of the steps and all the materials used would have helped those of us trying to learn.

[ZeranZeran]

Beautiful job, I had no idea the stones were cut to fit, DUH!
Looks perfect and natural!

[stonelark]

Dang ... that's a lot of work! This video was great to show the steps involved to do it right. And it looks fantastic when finished. I may hire it out instead of doing it myself.

[cindyski]

I guess I’ll be going for the cheaper and crappier version! Great job! Impressive!

[BeeHash]

Alternate title: The Flash building a stone pathway

[maureenlavallee]

fabulous job, guess i won’t be doing this myself!

[skpts]

Bro, this was absolutely AWESOME. And I totally applaud the way you recorded it and are giving everybody access to a longer version. F#@* the haters. GREAT JOB!

[donnafe]

Very well done. I don’t think the entire process took only 5 minutes!

[mroakland]

Loved when you installed landscape fabric😮

[gg]

First YouTube video I've ever slowed down.
Helped alot.
Thanks!

[roscmon]

Maybe you should have done it in 15 minutes so we could have a little time to see some details of the progress.

[photojunkysdronezonevlog]

All the people that gave it a thumbs-down because they actually thought he did all the work in 5 minutes, were the same people who got mad at the get-rich-quick in 5 minutes video.

[kristyjones]

Man😅, that looked like extremely hard work!😅🏆🥇

[kortnee-annhasselmann]

Nothing about this, including the video length, was 5 minutes 😂

[MrP-ztrn]

Great video, everything is common sense and the only thing I never knew was about how to make them fit or pre fit and the wet saw the pieces together. Easy money. 1st time watching a flagstone video. Now I got it.

[cindyski]

I don’t move that fast in 5 minutes! 😂

[ginarebere]

It looks beautiful! You did a lovely job!

[blowfish]

completely invaluable without describing the steps.

[jamesschenken]

Nice job. I especially liked the attention to detail in leveling each stone.

[genevievecolmenero]

I needed Information how and explain a process so i could implement it. Thanks.