Features paving laying on the sand

Laying of paving slabs on sand is most often done at independent paving walkways or areas in country houses, country houses.

Why in such places?Because this laying technology is not designed for heavy loads.

to create tracks or areas in the city with a high level of traffic using other options.

Laying in such cases do on concrete or gravel base.

These foundations have proved more durable, robust and reliable.How is laying tiles with their hands in the sand base, consider the stages.

first stage - base

To ensure proper operation designed instruction, according to which, in the future, paved track will not deform and break.

Any kind of work begins with the preparation.To lay paving slabs on the sand, you need to prepare so-called "box", but the first is marking the area.

The most convenient way is to mark that on the edges of the intended track (area) pull a thread on the pre-set pegs.

They can be both metal and wood.Pegs is better to install as much as possible, so that the thread does not sag.

distance from it to the ground must be at a level where it is planned to finish packing, ie the tile surface must be in contact with the cord.

desirable for the marked area to walk again, to make sure that the place is chosen correctly, make adjustments if necessary.

When the location is selected and marked out, starting work on the preparation of the "bed".Removed layer of soil depth of about 20 centimeters.

This carefully removed all the stones, roots, branches, and other debris."Lodge" was covered with geotextile.

This method using this material will facilitate the percolation of water and to prevent the germination of weed through the tile seams.

second phase - installation of curbs

track along the perimeter of the future with their own hands is a trench for installation of curbs.You can use paving stones of larger size or the ready material.

Height border should go flush with tiles or below 1-2 cm.This method of performance allows the water does not stay on the track.

This information should be considered when placing, as the height of curbs different.

If it is a few centimeters more than the total of the planned height of the masonry, the trench is deeper is at this distance.

curbs are fixed on the sand-cement mortar (1: 3, respectively).After their installation have to wait to dry one day.

There are rules according to which the solution is placed directly below each border, no need to fill them all at once the trench.

edging set up at this stage allows further generate laying paving slabs more precisely: the sand will not crumble at the edges, paving itself will not move out.

third stage - the creation of a sand cushion

now need a layer of sand coarse fraction, which should be the height of about 10 centimeters.About what is better to use sand, it will be discussed below.

The resulting surface is leveled with a rake, abundant moistened with water.

next step is to compact the wet sand layer.To this end, used vibrating plate.

If this way of tamping is not appropriate, for example, because of the small distances between the borders, or it is not there, you can use the tool, prepared with his own hands: to the bottom of the bar is a steel or wooden plate, for convenience made handles on both sides of the bar.

works base compaction can be viewed on video.

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After compaction is necessary to wait a certain amount of time, so that the sand has dried up.

If the training is conducted in sunny weather, and the work area is small, it is enough to wait for 2-3 hours, in cloudy - one day.

In rainy weather is generally not advisable to engage in laying paving slabs, because all the technology is broken.

next step laid across the path of the pipe at a distance of two to three meters.Thus, the distribution of the top (last) layer of sand is smooth, styling a whole is strengthened.

fourth stage - paving laying, grouting

pre-made layout of tiles on the future path in order to understand which method to apply styling, and what rules to use for layout pattern.

You can now paving paving paths or playgrounds.Tile cost stack "on my own" little pushing in the base align with a rubber hammer.

between tiles is necessary to leave a gap of a few millimeters.

When performing any patterns with his hands, the tiles have to be cut, but it should be done only after will be laid all the whole cover.

Before cutting tile is applied to the future place and draws a line that will be using the grinder is doing this work.

At the end of scatter on the surface of fine sand, and the usual broom begin to slowly wipe the seams between the tiles.

technology eliminates the presence of seeds in sand and roots of any plants, it can be pre-sifted.

can use another method of grouting: Use dry sand-cement mixture, which at the end of work richly filled with water.Thus, the tile is grasped between them.

After grouting paved track watered, washed away all the dirt, sand (cement).

The video - laying paving slabs.

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Species paving slabs

Before laying paving slabs, you must decide on its choice - which option is better to use:

• Gzhel - tiles, which applied decorative pattern in different sizes;
• Clover - is rough and smooth, which makes an unusual appearance.And also there is a relief, and smooth.Square shape with cut corners is embossed clover.Smooth - more complex in structure;
• Honeycomb - the name speaks for itself: is a hexagon;
• wave - has a surface similar to the slate;
• Parquet - Tiles, having a rough surface, there is a resemblance to the candy "toffee";
• Scales - it can help to make the volume of the pavement or ground.It resembles fish scales.

There was widespread tile clover Krakow or in another way it is called Krakow pavement.

clover produced in Russia, so it is built to operate in all weather conditions.

The color scheme of the tiles represented wide:. Gray, maroon, dark green, yellow, etc. Any pattern, pattern and design can be implemented.

Its popularity is due to its durability, reliability, it resists chemical attack, easy to assemble.

sand What should I use?

When laying paving stones usually do not think about how best to use the sand, it is there and what kinds of features.The difference in the material is.

for construction purposes are most commonly used two kinds of sand: career and river.

Career sand formed by the weathering of rocks, which has long been destroyed, and the sand is deposited near.

particles of different fractions obtained: both small and large.Such a material naturally can not be clean 100 percent, often mixed with clay.

quarry sand sifting is necessary before operating.For Odd its uneven surface, this material provides a better coupling with the components during construction work.

River sand has a smooth surface which is treated for a long time in the water, due to this, he has a more aesthetic appearance, is an environmentally friendly material, and no impurities.

price of this material below his career analog.Moisture well passes through river sand, without stopping.

When laying paving slabs with their own hands the property of river sand is the best suited for the job.Moisture should not destroy the paved track.

Features paving laying

to when laying paving stones with their hands no questions, let us consider some of the rules of operation.

The base must necessarily be flat, excluding the ingress of debris.

Before working all the tiles you want to view on its integrity.It can also be convex, concave and curved.These tiles can be used in places where cutting is scheduled.

These works are carried out at the end.

gaps between tiles are needed, they play the role of the expansion joints.When temperature changes tiles can begin to expand.

So if your hands do the masonry joint to joint, then over time you can detect deformation of the coating.

to create a durable coating stacking technology should not be violated.

To avoid the formation of large quantities of dust when cutting tiles, its first incision, and then split.Cut the entire surface is not completely necessary.

Laying tiles is "by itself", from the borders.

Using tiles clover expands the possibilities of creating an unusual design.

Instead curbs you can use temporary wooden formwork, which, after laying the tiles are replaced with larger pavement or curb.

When laying the paving slabs on the sand base with his hands, in spite of the capacity of sand, small inclination to do the whole track for speedy removal of moisture from the surface of the tiles.

Using the method of paving stone blocks on the sand, if necessary, it is possible to easily disassemble all lined area.

wage work is not advisable in rainy weather.

When planning to use the paved area under the parking lot, or any other heavy equipment, use a sand substrate is not desirable.For this purpose, there is a step by step guide of creating a concrete base.

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foundation of sand when laying paving slabs used on suburban or suburban areas, where most of the load on the surface of the track (area) no.

What rules are used to fix the tiles, you can see on the video.