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6 Ways to Cut a Paving Stone
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hi I'm Colin and today we're gonna talk
about six different ways you can cut a
paving stone let's get started
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so before we get into cutting paving
stones I want to talk a little bit about
marking and paving stone there's a
variety of utensils you can use
permanent markers crayons carpenters
pencils today we're gonna be using a
paver marker what I like to do is
measure exactly how big the cut needs to
be and then mark it on that that way
when I cut it the saw blade will give me
a little bit of wiggle room in case it's
not quite accurate so you're just gonna
mark one end and then mark the other end
and I like to take a trowel or some form
of a straightedge and that just helped
me establish a good straight line from
end to end so the first way that we're
going to talk about cutting a paving
stone today is probably the most basic
way and that is to split it with a
hammer and chisel this is probably the
most cost effective way just because
most people already have a hammer and
chisel it's not gonna make the cleanest
cut but if you only have a few cuts that
you have to make and it's not super
important that they look the best then
this will work just fine so basically
what you want to do is take your chisel
and kind of give it a little bit of a
score we're gonna kind of tap across the
mark of the cut to ensure a nice clean
finish then you're gonna give the few
good whacks to the center and that
should split it in half okay so that's
pretty clean all you'd have to do after
this is just basically clean it up the
rough edges with a hammer and chisel to
make it look the best
the second option the cutting of paving
stones is a use of a paver splitter the
paver splitter is cool because it's
clean
it can do a lot nicer of a split than a
hammer and chisel and it can be a lot
faster so all you really have to do is
feed your paver in between here just
line the the jaws up with your mark nice
and clean just apply a little bit of
pressure and split it right down the
middle so the third option to cutting a
paving stone that we're going to be
talking about today is the use of a
traditional skill saw with a diamond
blade so the diamond blades that are
going to be sold for these are primarily
gonna be wet and dry blades we don't
like to condone cutting dry because
silica dust is very harmful and also
illegal in some states so we're gonna
show you what it looks like to cut a
stone dry and then we're also going to
be doing it wet
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this is the fourth way that you can cut
a paving stone this is what's known as a
demolition saw you can get these at any
tool rental yard there's a truly
versatile because they can cut wall or
paving stones as well as metal if you
have an abrasive blade they're also very
portable because they run off of a
gasoline engine and you can hook up a
hose to most of them for to be able to
cut wet
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so the fifth option for cutting a paving
stone is the use of a tile saw this is a
pretty large and intricate tile saw
there a variety of different types of
tile saws the main thing is this is a
saw that uses a 10-inch blade you can
get an abrasive finish or a regular
finish as long as the diamond blade it
will efficiently cut through a paving
stone it's pretty fast it cuts very
clean and it probably wouldn't cost you
a whole lot to rent from a tool rental
yard
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so the sixth way that we're gonna
demonstrate on how to cut a paving stone
is the use of an IQ saw so the IQ series
of saws are unique because they are a
dried Estes system so you don't have to
worry about a wet slurry getting on
anything or an intense amount of silica
dust so that you can keep your job site
cleaner overall
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