This stuff was much thicker than I expected, and very strong. I had to poke holes in it with a scissors to use my landscaping staples. I didn’t have my pavers when we leveled the area for the patio, and I covered the dirt with this fabric. We had rain a few times, and we walked on the fabric before, during and after the rain and the mud never came through. When we compacted the area, we did it over the fabric, and it never tore. We finally have the patio installed, and I am pretty confident this will do its job!