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Historic paving renovation, part 2

After we had selected the correct tiles began the brutal part of the work;) The paving stones had to be beaten into the ground. My husband did it by hitting with the blunt side of our ax to a piece of wood lying on the stones:



It was a terribly demanding job, but we did not use a vibrating plate, to obtain the characteristic roughness of the pavement.
came slowly but surely we:


and finished last, this step:


had to be in a next step, the interstices filled with a kind of mortar. We used for mortar (gravel-sand), at its own recipe, which we had previously recovered from the sieved soil from the "excavation".





Then we removed the excess grout from irrigation, re-grout, re-watering ...


And that's the result:


I find it great!