Pave a 100m² driveway

Driveway
Concrete curbs in threes in 2 days (1 mixes concrete, 1 brought stones, 1 set stones)

Otherwise, spread gravel on our 30cm crushed stone, level it off and lay paving stones with 3 - 4 people in an active 3 days. You can safely plan for 1 extra day.

mmh, well, the base is already stabilized and there is gravel on top.

Is the gravel already compacted? If not, it obviously needs to be compacted as well. It's best to start with the curbstones, then you can see if more gravel needs to be added or if it’s enough as it is. With diligence and helpers, it shouldn’t be a problem. Pull it off bit by bit and lay the stones. Ideally 3-4 people. Most time is lost when the person laying the stones has no more stones. So place the pallets with the stones as close to the driveway as possible and have at least 2 people who hand you the stones.

...Most of the time is lost when the person laying the stones has none left. So place the pallets with the stones as close as possible to the driveway and have at least 2 people who hand you the stones.

That's exactly right! Once you've smoothed out a section, laying the stones goes really fast.

Just to clarify: I didn’t understand it correctly—I was under the impression that gravel was provisionally dumped on the building land at the questioner’s site and then compacted somewhat as a temporary driveway. Regarding sand: What some here call gravel, I still call sand, in which the stones are laid. It is clear that the jointing is finally done with much finer sandbox sand. Anyway... anyone who wants to pave can find plenty of videos on YouTube demonstrating the work steps.

Hello everyone,

I'm just going to make myself unpopular and strongly recommend thinking this through carefully, because "just laying a few stones and everyone is happy" it is not.

During the earthworks for the house, excavating the parking spaces directly and installing gravel there was a good start. However, the gravel is usually laid up to the level of the future courtyard/parking lot so that trucks etc. can access well during the construction phase. Assuming 8cm paving stones plus 3-5cm grit, about 12cm of gravel still needs to be removed. Of course, this was compacted beforehand and has usually been there for 1-2 years. Have fun if someone wants to do that by hand. For 100m² that would be 12m³ of material. Compacted gravel weighs about 1.7t/m³, you can do the math yourself.
After scraping off the 12cm, it's time to compact again. For a parking lot, a 120kg vibrating plate from the hardware store is not enough; better bring out the heavy equipment to minimize later subsidence.
Then set the curbstones, it's no art, have a good breakfast and off you go. Since usually some gravel has to be removed under the curbstones, better use a tamper so that the base is also firm. Slopes etc. are of course taken into account during planning.
Then just a bit of grit in, about 5m³ for 100m², so 8-9 tons. With two people, that's done in half a day.
Insert screed rails, level the heights and drag over with the straight edge, then the day is over.
Laying the paving stones is then the technically easiest part of the work, don’t forget to occasionally tap with the rubber hammer; it takes a day.
After that, process all the cut pieces so you only need to rent the clipper for one day.
Finally, jointing and again run the vibrating plate over it, but don’t forget the rubber mat underneath. Joint again and then it’s time for a beer.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve done it myself too. Over 100 linear meters of curbstones 8cm thick and some of the 40cm giants were necessary, 200m² of paving (to make it not too easy, we chose 60x40 stones - 36kg per stone and 36 tons total - only possible with a suction lifter). That took almost 5 weeks, but besides the normal job every day until late and of course on weekends and we had all the machines from tamper to vibrating plate to excavator. As long as you work precisely, know what you’re doing and have no back problems - no problem.
But describing it here just casually is not how it is - if you want to do it "properly."

When compacted gravel has to be removed, it's obviously tough, I agree with you on that. As for the curbstones, that's really not the problem, and spreading 8-9 tons of gravel isn't either. If necessary, you can also rent a mini wheel loader for 1-2 days. Surely you won't finish that on a weekend, that should be self-explanatory. For our terrace (just under 40m²) my father and I took almost 3 days together.