I can't speak for Joel, but speaking for myself, I'm not looking for the best long term result. I'm not married to the idea that I will always want this paver driveway.
I may very well decide to have the pavers removed and have a decorative surface treatment done over the existing, but now thinly covered, concrete.
I understand that thin pavers over concrete is not the best way to go, and were I starting from scratch, I wouldn't do it. However, this is the current hand I have. What I want to explore is the possibility of making it a little nicer than it is, myself, and trying it for. a few years to see what the yearly effort will be to keep it maintained to a standard I can accept.
I can't speak for Joel, but I do have the same question. When the driveway was originally done this way, the pavers along the border were bonded, and the pavers in between were set on a thin layer of sand. My guess is that very little, if any, ongoing maintenance has been done, so now I'm looking at quite a few of those border pavers having come loose, and quite a few in between have fractured.
I don't want to dig up concrete and put in proper pavers, because I may want that concrete intact later for a different treatment. I understand that I'm looking for a band-aid, and that as long as I stay with the thin pavers, I will always be dealing with cracking and debonding. I want to be able to deal with those issues in the best possible way, as opposed to making a big investment now in a more stable, longterm solution, because I'm not sure which way I want to go. Also, things are pretty backed up in this line of service right now, and it will be months and months before I could get the job done correctly.
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