Root - The Grass Paver

Made in the USA, great product. Easy to layout and for the most part to secure down. Used a weighted barrel roller from local hardware store rental, and a small compact car........since roller I got leaked. The little leakage seemed to help somewhat but then lost the weight needed to press grid into yard. Since all that was time consuming I simply used a small hatch back that fit in area to finish leveling it into space. Great value, solid product for the cost.

Update 2: Added a second pack this spring, which goes to about 5' from the back of the foundation to the right of the new second photo. This is how it looks in early fall, about 7 months in. Tough to tell they're there, especially since it was an extremely wet summer and the grass remained green (unusual). The marks are from my kids dragging over a plastic play house for a few weeks. We'll see how things hold up as the ground starts freezing and thawing in a month.Update: Added photo...Decided to rearrange the tiles before things dried/froze to be the full width. This is one pack 10 feet wide (not exactly a lot of coverage for $180), but they are performing pretty well so far...Come spring the grass should certainly improve the aesthetics.I have around 1200sf I'd love to be able to drive on without making huge ruts. Tried to get better pricing from the manufacturer's resellers, but it was within $25 of the amazon price! So I bought one pack as a test, which is what I'm reviewing.My soil is sandy and rocky, but turns to mush for a month or two a year when the ground deeper down is frozen and the top gets rain or the snow cover melts. I tried installing in the fall after heavy rain; fail. Wouldn't sink in with a 12x12 tamper, lawn roller, or even a vehicle on a single square. Waited until a 2" rain this week (in January) and had much better luck. Still had to use the tamper to smash down certain portions, but it went down.I can tell already that it needs grass to really remain stable/at the top...I have an area without grass where a trailer had been parked, and it's very muddy already (maybe 1/4" of mud over the pavers). This is expected though, you can't expect a 1" deep plastic grid to stay stable on its own on a sea of gelatinous muck.We'll see how things look after this spring. These things are expensive, but I hate gravel, don't want asphalt (would also be about 10x the price and if I pulled permits the town likely wouldn't approve adding impervious surface). Did I mention the wife approves? That too.

I had a garage built this winter and needed to extend the driveway to it. I lowered the Belgium Blocks and instead of laying on the grass, I excavated an area up to 6 inches or so. I really had no choice because of the way the land sloped. I put down a base of bluestone ( was going to use RCA but wanted it permeable) and leveled that 1 1/2 inches below the garage and driveway. It varied in thickness from 2-6 inches. Once level I lay down the grid and filled with more stone. It's as flat as a pool table and extremely firm. I will give an update if any problems arise but so far I am very happy.

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We installed Roots after a major rain storm. It compressed into the lawn evenly, it is a flat lawn area off of our driveway we are using to back up onto instead of backing out into road. Initially it linked together fine and was nice and level after install. We were very happy. It has been 3 weeks since install and our driveway and lawn area is a mud pit. Whenever we back onto the grids they pop out of the soil and become disconnected, Unless you back specifically over a grid seam. Upon reflection we wish we would have gone with the pro lite and installed a stone base because it is obvious that our lawn remains too wet for too long. The entire grid is fully compressed into the soil yet when the weight on my cars tire hits it at the right spot the seam pops above soil grade. Yes we do not have deep ruts that vehicles get stuck in, but what we do have is a ton of mud that surfaces when you back onto and out of the spot in rain. The last pictures are the parking pad two months after not parking a single vehicle on it. We still get sitting water right up against the driveway after heavy rains which we never had before install.

Product installed easy enough. The area I installed it in was tore up pretty good due to leveling. Using a sod roller didn’t work for pushing it down, so I drove over it with the bobcat numerous times which did the trick. It is installed over soil that has clay in it, which is why it didn’t push down easily. The pavers held up well to the weight of the bobcat and it’s tracks. No breaks, etc.

Using the grid to keep my dog from digging holes in a 24'x24' yard. Placed a couple of inches of soil on top of the grid then seeded the yard. Easy to install. If you anticipate returning the product, be advised that the vendor, not Amazon, is reluctant to pay for return shipping and issuing a refund. Recommend that if you anticipate returning the grid, buy it from Lowes or other store that a has free shipping and easy refunds.

Added half a car length to my parking pad in about an hour. Luckily it had been raining all day and the ground was soaked when the box of 18 pieces arrived. Laid it out, snapped it together, made a few cuts around a curve in the road with an angle grinder, then drove over it with the pick-up truck - sunk right in.