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A 10×10 patio is 100 square feet. Each standard 4"×8" brick paver is 0.222 sq ft (requiring 4.5 pavers per sq ft). With a **10% cutting and waste factor**, you need **495 pavers** (approx. 450 net + 45 for cuts).

For residential pedestrian patios and garden walkways, install a minimum of **4 inches of compacted crushed stone gravel base** (such as 3/4" crusher run / road base). For driveways or heavy vehicular loads, increase gravel depth to **8 to 10 inches**.

Lay a uniform **1-inch layer of coarse concrete sand** directly on top of the compacted gravel base. For a 100 sq ft patio, this requires about **0.31 cubic yards (approx. 0.42 tons)** of bedding sand. Never compact bedding sand before laying pavers.

One 50-pound bag of polymeric joint sand covers approximately **50 to 75 square feet of standard brick pavers** (with 1/8" to 1/4" joints). For larger slab pavers with fewer joints, one bag can cover up to 100 sq ft.