How to Apply Thin Brick Walkways

Throw down a length of rope along either side of where you want the thin bricks to create a walkway. This area should be 2 inches wider than you want the final walkway.

Dig down about 3 inches into the ground using a spade. Use the rope as a guide and level the ground between.

Add 1 inch of graded base to the area you dug out. Wet the base with a garden hose and compact it with a hand tamper. Repeat the watering and tamping process a few times to fully compact the base.

Add 1-by-4 boards to the sides of the walkway. Dig down into the ground and bury the boards about halfway down. Use a mallet to pound them further into the ground.

Install wooden stakes every 3 feet around the outside edges of the 1-by-4s. Pound them into place with the mallet until the are even with the 1-by-4 surface. Attach the two with deck screws.

Pour in about 1 inch of masonry sand. Compact it with the hand tamper. Place a piece of lumber that stretches from one side of the walkway to the other on the sand. Pull it across to level the sand.

Add a row of thin bricks on either side of the walkway. Lay the bricks lengthwise, one in front of the other, and give each a tap with the mallet.

Pull a shorter length of lumber across the inside edges of the two rows of brick to re-level the sand.

Install the remaining bricks by piecing them in place within the walkway on top of the sand. Give each a tap with the mallet.

Pour a large amount of stone dust overtop your thin brick pathway. Distribute the stone dust across the bricks with a push broom, getting it inside all the joints.

Wet the brick walkway and add more sand if all the joints between the thin bricks are not filled yet.

Check back in one week. If you can see empty spaces in the joints, add more stone dust like you did before.