August 12, 2017 18:06
A few decades ago about this element of landscape design as a garden path, no one thought about it.The plot is near a private house or villa was perceived more as a vegetable, every square centimeter of which must be occupied by any culture.The path in the garden occupied only a small area between the beds and the garden trees.In most cases, it was simply trampled strip of land on which people walk.Sometimes as a cover track reused brick, in some cases it anoint the old boards, especially rich people just poured concrete, and some even used the old conveyor belt.
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However, other times came.Now most of the private houses area is not used for horticulture, and for recreation.The new generation prefers to make a usable area of landscaping, to the distance from the bustle of the city take a break from everyday work.In this case, the appearance of the garden path plays a huge role.Well-matched design and material help to the design elements to emphasize the beauty of the entire area of the landscape, and on the contrary, failed badly designed and mounted track can lubricate all the efforts of the designer.Especially attractive look roads paved with stones.It is desirable that the construction of the tracks were part of a comprehensive upgrading of the site, because in such an important matter, each element can be individually, everything has its significance in the overall picture.About how stacking is carried out on the stone track - later in the article.
Naturally, everything for garden paths of stone is better to invite professional builders, however, when you have free time, a small experience of civil works, as well as a minimum set of tools with it can even handleamateur.
Special attention is required for the selection of stone:
Recently increasingly popular among landscape designers got a track made of artificial stone.This material is much cheaper than natural, but it is more suitable for stacking geometry.Modern casting technology and concrete processing allow artificial stone having the appearance of no worse and sometimes better, and its natural counterpart.
advantage for the natural stone tracks is that it does not contain chemical additives and therefore does not enter into chemical reactions that can lead to its destruction.In any case, the choice of material for the track depends on the host preferences and capabilities.
Work procedure:
This method has become quite popular recently.It allows you to effortlessly make beautiful garden paths, which appear to be not less effective than the tracks of wild stone.
method consists in casting artificial stone in a special formwork.It represents the different shapes as a stencil rectangular or asymmetric.To work with this form of the stone is quite simple to track.
Preparation for casting a stone mortar.Used cement-sand mixture with the addition of drop-outs.The ratio of the components as follows:
casting procedure for stone:
order of installation works:
monolithic track though has a beautiful view, as the application of the stone, but its installation and operational costs are much lower.
for casting such track need:
initial production stage of works is fundamentally no different from the installation path of artificial or natural stone with a few differences.Dug a trench backfilled with gravel only, who later thoroughly tamped.Prior to this, on the edges of the trenches set border.Then mount beacons, which will flatten screed.
next step is mixed solution.To this is added into the mixer sand, cement and water.The ratio of cement and sand to be about 1: 3.Ready pour the concrete to the surface and roll out with the help of the rules on the level of lighthouses.Tracks can be safely used after 3-4 days, depending on weather conditions.
For this operation, better to choose a cool day.The fact is that, if moisture will evaporate rapidly from the concrete, it will lose some of its strength.
Lately a lot of popularity gained roads paved with wooden sections.Particularly beautiful they overcame in the gardens.This track has a number of drawbacks, the main of which is wood features.Without proper treatment, this material will not be long.That is why the procedure for the application of anti-corrosion composition is mandatory.
For workpiece material it is necessary to take the trunk of a tree and sawing it to square up to 50 mm thick using a chainsaw.Prior to this, it is desirable to clean the surface of the barrel from the knots and branches.After the sections were ready, it is necessary to treat them.To do this, apply an antiseptic and drying oil.Processing necessary to 2-3.After that, preparing cushion for laying wooden sections.To do this, dig a trench depth of 20 cm. Then she slept with gravel or crushed stone.After each layer of backfill material should be carefully compacted and leveled.
next step is performed laying of wooden tiles.The gaps between the individual parts are not important.It is necessary to focus on the size of the steps of those who will walk on this path.After laying pieces of wood, and the gaps between them spiked shingle.Unlike stone, dumping sand wood surface better than no reason.Firstly, it is not so spectacular looks like pebbles, and secondly, the sand may cause damage to the ends of wooden tiles.