Installing concrete paver products such as bullet edgers are easy to install.  Just like plastic edging, bullet edgers are installed much quicker if you trench your landscape beds instead of hand digging them.  When trenching for bullet edgers, your trench machine should be equipped with a block blade.  The size of most bullet edgers are 3″ to 4″ wide.  Block blades usually cut a trench just over 4″ wide.  Having your tench cut 4″ wide allows you to drop the block into place without much work.

Most trench machines have adjustments which allow you to raise or lower the depth of the cutting blade.  If you set this depth just right, you will only have to do some minimal adjustments when you install your block.  Setting your cutting blade too high will not allow your block to set low enough requiring hand digging.  Setting your cutting blade too low will require you to replace some of the dirt that was removed during trenching.

Start installing bullet edgers.

When you are starting to lay pavers, always start on one end or the other.  When starting your first paver, make sure to cut the edge of the block so that it sits flush against what ever you are installing it next to.  Make sure that when you install your block, all of your block are the right side up.  Most all pavers will have a beveled edge around the perimeter of the top of the block.  If you set a block upside down, it will look out-of-place.  Don’t flip a block over and use the other side if there is a chip, save the block and use it for your cut piece.  Any broken blocks should be used when you are cutting your ends in.

If your edgers need some adjusting, use a dead blow hammer.  If you use a rubber mallet or regular hammer, you will break your block.  Dead blow hammers allow you to transfer force from the hammer to the block.  The beads inside the hammer will absorb some of the force so that your block does not break.