Pro Lite - The Residential Paver

Absolutely love this product. I ordered 3 boxes of these 2 years ago waiting to get this project done but finally got around to it after the boxes were collecting dust in the garage. They are very solid and easy to install. I found them a breeze to cut through with a sawzall. They were easy to interlock and I really appreciate the flex. I have a high traffic area I was going to put 1/2” crushed gravel in and wanted the extra stability and not have to take gravel all the time. These absolutely keep the gravel in place and give a really solid feeling underfoot. I put a little extra gravel on the top as to not see the grid and it looks great. I didn’t try too hard to level/grade prior and it’s been working out great. The hardest part was moving the gravel. In the future I’ll never lay gravel without this.

I figured out how to make the path curve AFTER putting the first 35 feet down. At first I offset them, and that looks GREAT, but it also makes for a more narrow path.... I made a pathway through my woods just one tile wide, and that's not a lot. Major paths should be 2 squares wide with smaller paths one tile wide. Oh well, looks great. Water flows over and through the gravel, and I'm not dealing with mud anymore, which was the purpose of this project. Once I layed the next 4 boxes, I figured out the S pieces in the tiles allow for curving the path. You need to put a tile down, lock in place, put gravel down on the last tile, then push the tile into position, and place a big rock to KEEP the tile in place... dump gravel, and keep moving. Make sure you don't put too much gravel down at first. You want the grid to hold the gravel in place, so water and blowers don't move it around. If you need to move the tiles AFTER you put down gravel, there's no good way to DO that IF you have to lift a tile to get the last tile UP, so 90% research, and 10% execution. Plan this out. Order what you need. A ton of gravel covers about 200sq ft at 1 inch depth. Make sure you have the gravel dumped in a place that's convenient to your project and not in the way.. I put a tarp down first, and that was a good choice. Crushed river rock looks great for my purposes. I put medium, large, and small rocks on either side of the trail.... thicker on one side, then the other to enhance the appearance of a meandering trail... just lovely! This product isn't cheap, but it's forever, and it's solid. No more time and money wasted on pine straw. I also down a path on my somewhat steep hill. It's in the rock garden, and matches the stones perfectly. I have a flat surface to walk, roll a wheelbarrow, etc. It was a 2 day job.... one day to put down the grid. A day to fill with gravel, and place rocks back.

So far, I have used it in three applications. One was in front of a shop in my backyard where water stood after a rain. I put a layer of white rock, then the TrueGrid Pavers, and filled them with angled black rock. No more water problems, and looks good. Had a number of tree roots I had to work around, and the TrueGrid pavers were easy to fit using a skill saw. The second application was on a walkway to a grill in my backyard. As the walkway approached the deck the grill sat on it sloped down. Problem - this would accumulate water. Put the TrueGrid pavers down, and again cut them easily to fit the form of the walkway. Put rubber pavers over the True Grid pavers. Ended up solving the water problem by lifting the walkway and yet providing drainage since the TrueGrid pavers are about one inch. Used no gravel in these and yet the walkway over them is solid. You would not know the rubber pavers were not on solid ground. The third application was to extend my driveway. Again, the problem was drainage, and in this case, if cars parked there, ruts. I had thought about using regular pavers, but there are are a bunch of roots and I would have had to dig deep enough to make a base of sand for the pavers and the width of whatever pavers I used. Digging down through roots three to four inches did not sound appealing. With concrete, again there is the problem of digging far enough down to lay a good base and use either wire or rebar. Then there is the work involved in mining the cement. Using the TrueGrid pavers I only had to go down one inch, level the ground, lay the pavers on it and fill them with angled black rock. Works perfectly. Heavy pickups can park on it with no. give, no ruts, and yet it allows excellent drainage. Glad I found this stuff. I have some other projects I intend to use it on. Check out their web site for examples of personal and commercial use and it will also give ideas as different ways it can be used. No, I do not work for them nor receive any compensation for this review - it's just good stuff and made right here in the Houston, Texas, area.