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Would go with a 5 but I feel like they are over priced for what they are

Finally made some pavers with this, and they turned out pretty good. Cement came out easily and mold did not crack or break so thumbs up!

not as advertised

I ordered this mold because I am slowly updating my house and this includes my yards (front and back). This mold was meant to create a nice drainage and paver block that I want to put small plants instead of grass in the openings.The plastic is a decent thickness. It is best to use some form of shallow tub that this can fit into and use play sand in the tub to help provide additional support. Lowe's has some concrete mix that can be used with this mold (the one without the rocks included) but you want to add some additional sand and perhaps some metal support of some kind. I followed a recipe that I found online with Portland Grey Cement, Portland White Cement, white sand (for concrete), concrete resin mix (instead of using water), coloring and using metal mesh to add a little extra strength. I also used coloring to add a touch of color. I dug out a section about 4 inches lower than the final product and about 1/2 inch on either side. I prepared the ground first by making a bunch of 6 inch holes and filling them with cheap dirt and lava sand (to prevent the clay sand from soaking up all the water and becoming rock solid. I then created a foundation/play sand and pebbles to help with water drainage but provide a good foundation for these pavers. I used some weed mesh to help prevent weeds from taking deep root and laid this on top of the mesh and foundation. I had about 3 inches deep and had a small amount sticking over the top of the grass. I filled in with the dirt and lava sand all the way around.I currently have the holes left empty and will fill them with good planting dirt and some small plants. I will fill in other sections with some type of grass or material so when workers need near the septic system or underground wire area, they can have a nice place to walk. I am looking at having two rows, the inside row for walking on and the outside row to have the plants, except for the path to work in that area. I will have some bigger plants between these rows. This will partially box in the ugly green big box right outside my front.I have only created one for now. I discovered about 3 days inside the mold, remove and allow to cure outside for about 1 week prior to use. After the 3 days, you can clean the mold, put in some more mold release and be sure that it is not puddled on the inside. Mix new batch and do the process all over, It my measurements are correct, I will need to make about 6 for the inside row and about 8 or 9 for the outside row. I can do these one or two in a week and wait for a couple more weeks so I can add more to this.This is a fair value. I have checked locally and online for molds like this. There are cheaper units but a few are much smaller and some have material that is not great material.YT has some great videos that can help if you have never used concrete molds.

Every time I find a new one of these concrete molds I get them as quick as possible. I recently purchased a new Farmhouse and I like to do pretty much all the work on it myself and every time I find a different style of these concrete molds I pretty much and buy them up as quick as possible. All the ones that I have from this company are very well made and look very nice. I actually got this one to do up my whole entire driveway this summer after I dig it out and get it ready and I think this thing is going to be awesome. These molds are very easy to use all you have to do is get some sort of releasing agent to cope inside with and for your concrete and let it sit you can throw some dies in there if you want to give them some hues or just pour the concrete in there just plain. For the driveway I'm just going to import an airplane without any color added to it because over time they will darken. I really like this style because it allows the grass and kind of weeds and stuff to kind of grow up through the middle while still giving a very hard surface without needing any stone. Basically what I'm going to do is dig out a whole entire area is deep as these and lay them and fill the Mills back with dirt and then pretty much a level everything back out I'll probably have these Rays just a little bit with some edging on the side to really give it a very nice look but other than that I think these are 100% worth of money and highly recommend them if you like doing DIY projects around the house as much as I do

Made in Ukraine, so I thought I’d give it a try. But this won’t be a simple project. Here are some data points if you want to plan a project and make your own pavers with this mold:Mold volume is 10 liters (about 11.5 qts).Mold feels pretty thick, but I need to re-use it many, many times. Unsure how long this one will last.Each finished (dry) paver will weigh about 50 pounds.Ready-mix concrete (sakrete, quikrete, etc) from the big box home centers is not formulated for great strength. It is for planting posts, filling holes, or a small slab, etc. This intricate mold is not thick and you’ll need to focus on making the concrete mix as strong as possible. I plan to add 10% portland cement to the ready-mix that I bought. Portland comes in large (80 pounds in my case) bags, so the ratios and economics are not straight forward. Anyway, I have a mostly-full bag of Portland and I will see how far it goes.With one mold, you are limited to one paver per mix, and one paver per 2-day cycle. I have not started yet, and want to make 30 pavers, so this will be a long running project. Or if the first few pavers seem great, strong, durable and attractive, I may buy 2 or 3 more molds. Alternately, the thin layout of the paver's matrix form may prove to be too weak for this to work at all. I will decide after I get through 3 bags of readymix and about 20 pounds of Portland. That will make about 3-4 first test pieces and only cost about $20 and a lot of calories (I have those to waste).The cost is minimal, but if it all fails, the biggest headache will be getting rid of 200 pounds of broken paver pieces.My goal is a 30 foot path/side walk that is 2 pavers in width (32” total) and 30 feet long (15 pavers in length, and 2 pavers wide).I will mix in a 5-gallon bucket, and mark the side of the bucket each time so I will eventually have good control of the batch size for each mold run. I will try to report back, but it may be weeks/months because this is not a priority and I don't plan to do the actually sidewalk excavating work til April 2024.