Pathmate Concrete Stepping Stone Mold, Belgium

I bought this to make a rustic looking patio under my back deck. It came out great. The product was easy to use, cleaned up nicely and couldn't have been easier. As a suggestion for a first timer, if you are going to put this down I have two tips:1) Level your area very well2) Lay down loose gravel beneath your path for drainage and to help level3) Bring a friend, because it will definitively take two people to do this. One to mix the cement and one to trowel it flat.4) Buy two of these so that you can work on a second one, while the first one is setting up.The end result was great, but if you have unlevel ground underneath your area, it will use more concrete so you will want 80lbs bags instead of 60lbs.

I bought 2 of these to do a patio in front of the house. They work great! Its a lot of work but, pathmate are very solid easy to clean and use.

This product was increadable. It works even better than I thought it would. Sturdy and easy to clean, but do yourself a favore and purchase 2 at a time. When you get going, it is a lot easier to work with 2 at a time. The hardest part was mixing the concrete, may want to rent a mixer for large projects. Made our walkway in three hours(10 FT by 6 FT area). It looks so good that even the neighbors wanted to borrow them from us. Thank you so much for such a wonderful product.

Could not get the concrete to set properly, I tried multiple times and it was just a blobby mess. hated it. Waste of my time.

The product worked great for my project, but I thought it would go faster, and it is very labor-intensive. You need to have a strong back. However, this saved me a lot of money!The part that took the longest was troweling the bricks flat. The mold was easy to use though.When I first started I was filling each individual section, but after awhile I would trowel in about 1/2 of the concrete and then pour the rest in the center and trowel it evenly throughout the mold.I had thought this product came with two molds, but only came with one. The project would have been much faster with two molds, and two people.

More work than you would think , It did what it was supposed to , but never again

I wanted a safer path from my deck to my woodshed. The grass gets slippery in winter, when I need the firewood (it's a steep slope). The concrete mold has done a good job. I followed the hint I found online to sprinkle mortar mix over the wet concrete for extra surface "grip", and studded the wet concrete with little marble chips (like studded snow tires). The spaces between the "Belgian blocks" is wide enough for our aggressive weeds to be a problem, so I swept more mortar mix into the crevices after the concrete had cured (the water-sprinkled mortar mix runs out the ends of the spaces unless you place something, like a 2" x 6" piece of plastic milk jug to hold the unset mortar in place). To give room for the concrete to expand and contract with temperature changes, I left the individual molds sepa rate. To prevent weed growth between molds, I put down strips of plastic landscaping film on the ground before placing the mold and pouring in the concrete. The manufacturer is accurate: each mold takes about 60 lbs. of concrete mix. That's heavy for me, so I mixed up about 20 lbs. at a time. Although I partially filled each space in the block after mixing up each of three batches of concrete, it seemed to do just fine with delayed filling. The mold wasn't hard to lift off the block despite the extra time of several batches of concrete, and studding the wet concrete. My walk may not be as pretty as a flagstone walk, but it was cheaper, and it isn't slippery.

The Pattern works well but is time consuming. I redid a front sidewalk that was about 15' long and it took about 8 hours. The grid slides off pretty well after a couple minutes. Only had a couple nicks. Overall I would recommend