<b>Hardscape Guide:</b> Laying Brick

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AquaMaster
www.aquamasterfountains.com
800-693-3144

The Masters Series of fountains are available in a wide variety of spray patterns, giving you the power to create dazzling waterscapes while improving water quality. All Masters Series units are built with energy efficient, oil-cooled motors and are total component UL and cUL listed, and CE-recognized for safety. AquaMaster products are backed by manufacturer warranties.

Belgard
www.belgard.biz
877-235-4273

The Belgard Nottingham Elements Collection by Harmony Outdoor Living is a pre-built outdoor living line that features a variety of products such as fireplaces, brick ovens, water features and full kitchens. All the elements are pre-constructed in a factory setting – ensuring consistency and quality. They are designed to be machine-installed with little training, and they can be installed in hours, the company says. 

COL-MET
www.colmet.com
800-829-8225

COL-MET commercial steel landscape edging is available in 14 gauge through ¼-inch thickness, 4- to 6-inch heights and green, brown or black powder coat.

Firestone Specialty Products
www.firestonesp.com/ll4 
800-428-4442

Firestone PondGard Rubber Liner is based on EPDM (ethylene propylene diene terpolymer), which makes it a high-quality, durable, user-friendly option for landscaping professionals.

Safe for plants and ?sh, PondGard can be used for decorative ponds, streams, waterfalls and other water feature applications. It requires no special tools for installation, and it is available in a variety of sizes for different project scales. PondGard is also flexible for shaping around unique pond contours and its high tensile strength and exceptional puncture resistance allow for design features such as rough-edged rocks along the banks of a pond or stream. PondGard will not crack or split in cold weather conditions down to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit, allowing for installation in a wide range of temperatures, the company says.

Invisible Structures
www.invisiblestructures.com
303-233-8383

Grasspave2 a new option for contractors interested in porous paving. They are used to reinforce turf for parking lots, driveways, access roads and fire lanes. The installations provide a natural filtration system for automobile and parking lot runoff.

Natural Concrete Products
www.ncpwalls.com
402-560-0105

Natural Concrete Products has developed a process to produce very natural looking, and easily installed, retaining wall blocks. The blocks, when stacked, make the wall look like a natural stone or stacked stone wall.
NCP makes two retaining wall systems: Random Stone and Fossill Stone. The Random Stone system has a multi-colored and cut up face that looks like a stacked stone wall when installed. The Fossill Stone system makes the wall look like a natural limestone wall when stacked. Each system is produced in a variety of colors. Each system can be used to produce retaining walls, columns, free standing walls, fire pits, outdoor tables, outdoor kitchens and water features.

Harmony Outdoor Living
www.harmonyoutdoorliving.com
262-539-4444

The Wexford Elements Collection by Harmony Outdoor Living is a collection of pre-built outdoor living elements that features a variety of products such as fireplaces, brick ovens, water features and full kitchens.  All the elements are pre-constructed in a factory setting – ensuring consistency and quality, the company says. They are designed to be machine-installed with little training on the part of a contractor, and they can be installed in hours, the company says.   

Pave Tech
www.pavetech.com
800-728-3832

Brights for Pavers & Walls weigh as much as actual pavers and enhance any hardscape design, commercial or residential, by providing an inviting atmosphere, the company says. Use them as guiding lights for walkways, driveways, retaining walls, patios, stairways, entrances, parking spaces and borders along paved areas. Brights for Pavers & Walls are available in varying styles, colors, shapes and sizes.

Rockwood Retaining Walls
www.outdoorlivingkits.com
888-288-4045

Rockwood’s complete line of Outdoor Living Kits are easy to build, and are affordably priced, the company says. The kits come complete with everything a contractor needs, even the glue, and include simple, course-by-course instructions. There’s no cutting and no estimating. The kits are available nationwide and at all Ewing Irrigation locations.

Peacock Pavers
www.Peacockpavers.com
800-264-2072

The Old World, stone-style of Peacock Pavers is now available for residential driveways. The company’s driveway pavers are strong, durable and have excellent freeze/thaw characteristics. Made of architectural-grade concrete, they are 3 by 9 by 9, and come in four standard colors: buff, champagne, rice white and dolphin grey. They match the colors of the company’s other pavers, so driveways can be designed to blend seamlessly with adjoining walkways, courtyards and patios.

The pavers are also available in a half-inch thickness developed specifically for remodeling projects and retrofitting. Made of architectural-grade concrete, they lend stone-style beauty to floors, fireplaces and other indoor and outdoor applications. Available in a variety of sizes, with trim pieces, they can be installed in regular or random patterns and are as easy to install and seal as natural stone, the company says.

Oly-Ola
www.olyola.com
800-EDGINGS

Oly-Ola Edgings offers hardscape contractors a selection of paver restraints to fit a variety of paver projects and installation preferences. Oly-Ola paver restraints are constructed of strong 100 percent recycled black vinyl, and feature Oly-Ola’s L-shape design, which makes them easy to install, either under or outside of the paver, the company says.

The restraints have specially designed “key-hole” cuts that make them flexible and durable, securely hold professional, creative landscape designs with no cutting or snipping necessary and work for many paver projects, from heavy-duty paver projects such as driveways and patios to shallow paver and architectural stone projects.

Oly-Ola paver restraints are guaranteed for 15 years against cracking, rotting, disintegrating or self-destruction from any weather conditions or manufacturing defects. If this ever occurs, Oly-Ola will replace 100 percent of the damaged material, cover any freight charges involved, and pay the labor to have the product reinstalled, the company says.

Stone Age Manufacturing
www.stoneagemanufacturing.com
877-371-8861

Stone Age Manufacturing produces pre-engineered masonry fireplace kits for indoor and outdoor applications, as well as fire pits, brick ovens, pizza ovens, outdoor kitchen island systems and pergolas, all in kit forms designed for ease of assembly by experienced masons or novice installers. Stone Age products have been featured in several episodes of the DIY Network television series Indoors Out, Rock Solid and Man Caves, and have also been featured on NBC’s Today Show.

The company’s products are designed to offer a faster, more efficient and more durable way to construct popular hearth and outdoor room features, while delivering greater consistency and higher quality than comparable products or traditional construction techniques, the company says. Each Stone Age product is designed for compatibility with our other components, allowing flexibility in project design and customization to meet the requirements of any installation, regardless of architectural or design style. Stone Age also offers a full line of accessories, carefully chosen to enhance the performance and enjoyment of our products.

Stone Construction Equipment
www.stone-equip.com
800-888-9926

Stone Construction Equipment, Inc.’s Silver Fox series of forward plates consists of eight models, including a plate designed specifically for optimum performance on asphalt – the SFA3500.

Models in addition to the SFA3500 include a small, 13-inch wide SFP2200/SFP2200A and the all-purpose SFP3000/SFP3000A, the all-purpose professional SFP4000/SFP4000A, and for larger dirt jobs the SFP5100. All models are available with a variety of engines – Honda, Robin, Briggs and Stratton or Diesel engines – for compacting asphalt, dirt, granular soils, sand and paving stones. The eight models can be used for a variety of compaction jobs – foundations, sidewalks, landscaping or asphalt patching and finishing.
 
The line features a forward-mounted eccentric and a 15-degree ramped leading edge that produces exceptionally fast forward travel speeds and optimum gradeability; a patented one-piece base plate integrated with the extra-large eccentric housing dissipates internal heat over the plate, cooling the oil and the eccentric bearings while heating the plate surface for smooth asphalt compaction; and a synchronized drive system provides energy transfer between the engine and eccentric.

The Stone-exclusive Kevlar belt, eccentric, innovative offset eccentric sheave, heavy-duty centrifugal clutch and engine all operate in unison to increase compacting performance, the company says, and the self-cleaning base plate virtually eliminates dirt build-up for easier maintenance.

A 13-quart removable water tank can be taken to a faucet for fill-ups, and a patented water system directs an even coat of water for the entire base surface. It is connected to the water tank with a Stone-exclusive SnapTek quick-coupler.

With a larger effective contact surface and a more centrally located eccentric, the SFA3500 floats across the asphalt with a compaction force of 3500 pounds. It features the removable water tank, SnapTek quick-coupler and a custom sprinkler system to continually coat the base plate with a sheet of water to reduce asphalt sticking.

VAST Enterprises
www.vastpavers.com
612-234-8958

VAST Enterprises has developed a new version of its composite landscape pavers in a 4-by-8-inch size. The new size is popular for large commercial hardscapes such as parking areas, walkways, building entrances and plazas, the company says.

Manufactured in VAST’s proprietary composite blend of up to 95 percent recycled car tires and plastic containers, the pavers are one-third the weight of concrete pavers.

The VAST grid system, manufactured out of the same composite material as VAST pavers, is laid out on a compacted sand base just like the base for conventional pavers. Installers then insert VAST pavers into the grid — in any designed pattern — and the pavers are automatically spaced and aligned.

VERSA-LOK
www.versa-lok.com
800-770-4525

VERSA-LOK is a solid, top-pinning segmental retaining wall system, offering design versatility and ease of installation. VERSA-LOK is available in two textures: classic split-face texture and vintage weathered, which has a centuries-old, hand-hewn appearance that’s well-suited for historic renovations.

The VERSA-LOK family of solid retaining wall units includes Standard (6 inches high, 16 inches wide, 12 inches deep); Accent (4 inches high, 12 inches wide, 12 inches deep); and Cobble (6 inches high, 8 inches wide 12 inches deep). VERSA-LOK’s solid units are easy to modify on site, and there are no hollow units to fill, which saves both labor and materials, the company says. With VERSA-LOK, you can build walls, curves, multiangle corners, stairs and freestanding walls. No specialty units are required. VERSA-LOK accommodates soil reinforcement to build walls to 50 feet or taller.