Who has experience laying paver patio?

Your base material is key to having a professional looking job.

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Your base material is key to having a professional looking job.

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yup, Prep, prep, prep. key to making it look level now and in the future.

Use paver base(crushed rock), Get the biggest level you can, then set it with sand after pavers are laid

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Paver base? Is that like crushed limestone?

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yes, crushed granite, limestone, whatever

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Also, would you lay sand after you smooth out and level the paver base?
Then level/smooth out sand.

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I lay pavers on top of paver base, no sand. I use the sand to lock the pavers in place after they are laid.

Either use a border like a metal edge or do a slider course around the edge in cement to hold in place, it will look better and last longer. As previously stated your prep work and base will determine how the job turns out. Put down a aggregate base a few inches and compact it then put down sand to bed the pacers in. Pretty simple job

In that case, plan on working Sunday at my house!

Done it with slate pavers that were all different shapes. Its not difficult to do. But it is difficult to do well IMHO. Its probably easier using square stones though. We had a difficult time keeping everything level. That may have had a lot to do with the naturally cut slate being different thicknesses. After doing it, I wish we would have gotten a professional to do it.

Ive probably laid a few hundred thousand sq ft of paver back in my tile days.

Use 3"s ofpaver base. Run plate tamp over base

use 1" conduit laid on base.
Set conduit to pitch you want.
Cover w sand and drag straight edge over comduit.
Remove conduit. fill voids. dont pack sand.
Lay your pavers.
Run plate tamp over pavers.
Sweep in DRY polymer sand
re tamp.
I lay border in cement mix.
It will last forever this way.

If you just use sand and dont have a firm base it will settle sooner or later.

You can till in portland if you hqve sandy soil. works pretty good.

I probably won't be much good Sunday, maybe depending on how early I'm in bed. If you want to do one I'm game, nothing to it

I wish i had set mine with real mortar instead of using sand in the joints as i am constantly battling weeds in the cracks. Other than that it is a pretty simple project. Mine has a few dips here and there but plenty good enough. Mine is around 16x20 done with the varying size pave stones from homedepot.