? Vibrating plate

[svey72139]

What should I use then? Just a sawd roller? Or just smooth with hand trowel after wetting the sand?

[JJ in Tx]

Your existing undisturbed ground most likely doesnt need the compactor run over it but I would want to compact the sand personally & and my prefrence would be the vibrating plate compactor.
JJ

[Aranon]

I just got through this morning using a vibrating compactor. I found wetting the sand really helped. I mean wetting it a lot. I had my kid run the water hose in front of the compactor and it helped a lot. Still was dry in some places underneath. What is sawd ? Is that what you call "sod" up north?

Aranon