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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I've got most of the area dug down to clay. My plan is to lay fabric, put in 2" of gravel, wet it then go rent the compactor, compact that, add another 2", compact then an inch of sand and finally brick, then the gap sand and compact again. So I'm kind of wondering if I can get it done in a 24 hour period on one rental, or if I should go with 2 rentals of shorter periods.
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I did this a few weeks ago. I did a 48 hour our rental on a plate compactor. For the area we had, I definitely could have gone with a couple 1 hour rentals in retrospect, but at the time I didn't want to haul the compactor back and forth a bunch of times. Eventually we decided to hand-tamp at the end, because we were using old red bricks which were crumbling a bit under the plate compactor (not an issue for modern pavers).
From what you describe, if you've got everything ready to go, you can probably do your first compacting in about 15 minutes, another 15 minutes to lay down the 2nd layer of gravel, another 15 minutes compacting, and then take it back. Then rent again at the end of the process.
I'm not sure about other places, but Home Depot is pretty good about letting you adjust your rentals on the fly.