Any ideas for a quick and easy to build patio?

Question

I have an old, very old (50 years), wooden patio that is rotted and termite ridden. I've been tearing it down, piece by piece, but what should I build in it's place. Something easy, withstanding and has shade for the animals. Any ideas would help.

Answer 1

After pricing the blocks or the stone for a patio, something like you want, I was shocked.

       I went to the local landfill and found they had a dry dump the local gardeners dumped their trash, no garbage. They let my wife and I pick.

       We got a few truck loads of very nice brick someone threw out. I leveled a place ten by ten, scraped the sod off and back filled with sand from a  local pit.

        We put in the brick and tamped it down. I next got a patio shade tent from Target for $79.00 on sale, with the heavy frame work and set the ends in cement so it wouldn't blow away.

         I just replaced the tent, from the same place, the same type, after ten years. Cost ? my labor and $79.00 plus the gas to the dump three miles away. You'd be surprised a what people throw away. We are a very wasting society.

Answer 2

If u have the proper tools, u can built a Plecibo/ or a redwood deck..  Buy a book on that subject and see if u can do it.  Make it a do-it-urself project.   Good Luck.  U will have to put it up piece by piece...just like a puzzle.