Super fashionable and therefore a popular trend in landscape design is the use of natural stones. The naturalness of the stone makes it possible to successfully apply it when creating terraces and forming decorative paths. The proven way of transforming personal territory works for hours without fail. It is enough to take advantage of the accumulated experience and your hardworking hands.
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Where are you, the path, led me
Each time, walking around the territory of the infield, the owner will be pursued by a bothersome thought: "Is something missing for the utmost comfort, whether convenient tracks from natural stone, or a fountain?". This is really so, the garden and park ensembles simply need a practical frame, namely garden paths with a certain clear stylistics and purpose.
Of course, tracks from gravel and gravel, as well as ground or grassy with small islands of natural stone, are considered practical and long-lasting. But the attention of the site owner is attracted by tracks equipped with a hard surface, such as stone, tile or brick. How to pave a garden path with your own hands from a suitable stone, what construction material and construction mechanisms will facilitate your task? All is not so difficult: get a concrete mixer (you can rent it), bring sand http://udarnik.spb.ru/produkty_i_uslugi/pesok/karernyj/, buy cement - and go!
From what stone can you build a path
The most practical material for the device can be considered a stone for tracks:
• concrete slabs and labrador
• river gravel, gravel and crushed stone
• marble, granite and basalt
• sandstone and limestone
The simplest way to create tracks on the site is considered concrete slabs, due to the relative cheapness, frost resistance and durability.
Plates of concrete can lay out paths and car access. The configuration of concrete slabs is diverse, and the laying process is well known. Decorative tracks made of slabs are suitable for any style and design of the site.
"Proletarian" version of the creation of tracks on the site can be called a path of pebbles from gravel, gravel and gravel. Simple and smooth, like a shingle peeled by a wave, the option of laying a stone on the tracks will consist of marking the boundaries of the path on the terrain and the pouring of the material with an even, uniform layer. The only "but" in this version of the design is that such paths adore digging children, dogs and cats.
More solid materials, capable of creating a monumental path, are marble, granite and basalt. Garden paths made of stones of this kind look stylish and attractive, but the cost of laying will differ from simple variants of creation.
And here sandstone It is the recognized leader for creation of decorative paths. If you use several color varieties of sandstone when paving, you can pick up and add to the landscape an original in design and color stone path with your own hands.
Specialists distinguish sandstone:
• fine-grained gray-green
• cross-bedded brown-rusty
• tiger with torn plate form.
Sandstone stones are characterized by a lack of radiation background and tremendous frost resistance. Slightly rough surface rubble sandstone when wet, it does not slip and keeps the clutch perfectly.
Unusual painting of a natural stone of sandstone will perfectly be entered in the general design of a site of a personal plot. The main thing is to choose the material for paving and observe all the subtleties of technology.
Technology of paving stone tracks
Among the owners of household plots and admirers of landscape design, the following technologies for paving decorative paths are known:
• paving tracks using cement and concrete
• Paving on cementless technology
• Technology of casting a single stone.
The essence of the technology of paving with the use of cement and concrete is that the prepared stones or slabs are laid on the finished solution. The method of cementless technology is the use of geotextiles for the organization of the process.
The technology of stone casting involves the creation of a "stone" directly on the marking site. Therefore, initially it is necessary to determine the choice of the technological process and pick up stones for the paths in the country.
How to create and pave a path of stones
Decorative paths for walks are recommended to make a width of about 60 cm, with an optimal width of tracks of wild stone 1.2 m. These track sizes will allow them to move freely around them. When creating tracks and paths, as well as patios and areas, preference is given to finished sandstone slabs, 35x50 cm in size. In order to emphasize the beauty of natural live stone, it is necessary to lay slabs with gaps. Gaps after the end of stacking plates filled with crushed stone.
Creating a path on the plot with their own hands
use of technology for paving on cement or concrete
We form the contour of the path with the help of marks with a rope, string, bright paint from a can or sanding. We excavate the trench along the course of the mark of the future track to a depth of 20-30 cm.
It is not worth taking out the removed soil, it is still useful. In the resulting trench, fall asleep drainage layer (gravel, pebbles or slag). We seal the drainage layer.
Then pour a layer of 10-15 cm of moistened sand. After laying sand, depending on the technology chosen, a concrete or cement mortar is prepared. Now it produces the laying of individual prepared fragments of stone, and we punch stones with a rubber mallet. For secure connection of the track, the edge is framed by a curb. As a frame, it is recommended to use paving curbs.
use of cementless technology
The technology of cementless paving of garden paths involves the use of a geotextile membrane, which is laid out on the bottom of the prepared trench. When installing the trench, it is necessary to carefully process the bottom, eliminating the presence of garbage and plant roots, which can damage the geotextile membrane.
After preparation, the trench membrane is spread to the bottom with a characteristic "trough", at which the edges protrude by 50 cm. The protruding edges of the geotextile are covered with a layer of rubble overlapping.
Then, damp sand is poured and the fragments of the stone are laid. After the laying of the track, the tramming of the stones is carried out, followed by rubbing sand or small gravel with sand or sand.
single stone technology
The technology of stone casting is the most controversial and insidious. It raises many questions and statements in the production process.
Manual production of artificial stone is associated with strict observance of the nuances of the technological process and the "secret" formulation of stone preparation, which does not always justify the final result.
However, the complexity of the technology and the laboriousness of the process of creating an artificial stone is presented in the proposed video.
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