Beautiful garden paths serve not only for the comfortable movement of the owners of the countryside, but also decorate the territory. The correct choice of the shape of the path and the use for its construction of materials that are well combined with the overall design of the landscape, allows you to distract attention from the flaws in planning the territory, emphasize all its advantages, place emphasis on the most attractive plants and floral arrangements.
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Principles of the choice of material for garden paths
To garden paths have become a worthy decoration of the site, one should take seriously the choice of material for their construction. First of all - take into account what construction materials were used in the construction of the house and auxiliary buildings, the presence of additional decor elements on the site, the general style of the site's decoration.
For example, if the house is built of brick or trimmed with decorative plaster, then the relevant material for the tracks will be paving slabs or clinker. The presence on the site of buildings made of wood or wood-trimmed, whether it's a house, a sauna, a gazebo, will allow the construction of original garden paths made of wood.
Advantages of wooden tracks
Like any building material, natural wood has undeniable advantages, but it is not devoid of shortcomings. Before you decide on this material, you should weigh all of its pluses and minuses.
Garden paths from wood sprees attract:
- environmental friendliness, this is very important, because. an increasing number of people seek to surround themselves with natural materials, building their home and territory around it in eco-style,
- the uniqueness, the uniqueness of the pattern of each saw, and, accordingly, the originality of the general view of the trails being built,
- the availability of material that is essentially waste from cutting down trees, which can be bought as fuel material,
- simplicity of the construction of the track - you do not need expensive equipment or professional tools to work, you can run the path yourself, without special training.
The shortcomings of these beautiful paths can be first of all attributed to their fragility - even the hardest wood under the influence of moisture begins to rot, its surface can infect fungi, inside it insects are planted. Such tracks can not be attributed to fireproof, they can ignite when exposed to open flames. In addition, it is possible to build garden paths from cuts if they fit well in the picture of landscape design on the site.
Draw up a work plan
Determine the number of tracks that will need to be built and outline their directions: from house to bathhouse, outbuildings, favorite resting place - benches or gazebo, bath, toilet.
Next, we decide, we will use for the tracks to cut a tree or a board. Determine the approximate area of future tracks and the amount of material for their paving. These data will help you determine the cost of purchasing the material.
A positive moment - the purchase of special construction tools is not required.
The speed of the work, as well as the material costs, will depend on one factor - you will have to decide whether to purchase the finished material or cut it yourself. Prepared for packing and pretreated with antiseptics, it will be much more expensive to cut down, but it will allow you to immediately start laying the tracks.
Track from spilov with own hands - all stages of work
prepare the material
If you decide to make the saw yourself, then work will require a chainsaw or an electric saw. You can use logs well dried - raw material during drying can give cracks and ruin the view of the path.
The height of the saw should be of the order of 10-12 cm, the pre-made template will simplify the work by which the logs will be marked off. When creating a track from spilov with your own hands, you can use both tree trunks and their branches. To create a path, circles with a diameter of 7 to 45 cm are suitable.
For work, you can use different types of wood, but the duration of the track will depend on the hardness of the selected breed. For example, pine, alder or aspen material will last 6-7 years, famous for its high density, oak - up to 10 years. For more than a decade, a larch path will serve. You can use an asymmetrical thick bar to make the cuts.
treatment with antifungal and waterproofing impregnations
A very important point on which the lifetime of the tracks will depend is the processing of the material by antiseptics. The most simple and effective method is the treatment with hot oil or 10% solution of copper sulfate. For the treatment of wood, it is also possible to use modern antifungal impregnations, which are readily available in specialized stores. Treated material will take time to dry out.
At the next stage, the logs are treated with a waterproofing impregnation in which the melted bitumen is used. Melt briquettes of bitumen can be over a homemade fireplace, built of a pair of bricks in an old metal container. To lower in molten bitumen follows only that part of a saw which will appear below a level of a ground. After treatment with waterproofing, the saws are again dried.
In order not to bother with an improvised stove and wood, you can put briquettes in a container and fill them with gasoline. Within a few days, the bitumen will melt, I also lower the cuttings into the resulting solution, then I dry them.
mark the place for the tracks on the site
As with the construction of tracks from other materials, the first thing to do is to mark out the tracks on the territory, outline their boundaries using a cord stretched between pegs or sand, if the tracks will have a meandering shape. Then you can start digging a trench about 30 cm deep.
Since wood is exposed to moisture, it is necessary to build a drainage system. At the bottom of the trench lies a layer of rubble. Next - a layer of geotextiles, it is covered with sand, thin layers, in several receptions. At the same time, each layer is watered and tamped. The thickness of the sand layer can reach 10 cm.
spoil placement options
When laying down the spills, it is recommended to place the fragments as close as possible, alternating between large and small diameter circles. From what pattern will be created when laying circles, the decorativeness of the track will depend.
To give the track an original appearance, it is possible to cover the remaining intervals between the circles with pebbles, gravel, or granite screenings.
Small spaces can be covered with sand or clay, with time to lay with moss - such a path will have a fabulously beautiful view.
To decorate the edges of the track, you can use higher spinals of the tree, beautiful stones, you can simply fill the edges with dirt and tamp well, then sprinkle with sand.
In order to extend the life of the track, it will be necessary to annually process the wood fragments with a deep penetration primer for wood.
Stairs made of wood
If the site has natural irregularities, then for their ennobling you must build stairs, for this you can use the same wood material. Ideal option is the construction of a winding staircase on a shaded slope, if a landscape style is used when creating a garden, then a staircase can be built from spills.
To give this element of the garden great picturesqueness along its edges plant beautiful plants or unpretentious flowers. For a rustic style in the garden, you can apply the planting of flowering small plants directly between the wooden steps.
Construction of garden paths from wooden planks
For the construction of such unusual tracks it is recommended to use solid wood species - oak, acacia, larch. prepared fragments must be treated with antiseptic means - this will prevent their decay and will prevent reproduction on their surface of fungi.
Greater protection of the woody fragments of the track will be ensured by its elevation to a certain height above the ground level. As a basis for such a path can serve as massive beams, laid on a 5-cm layer of gravel from the gravel. Between the beams leave small gaps for ventilation - this will extend the life of the wood.
It will be more interesting to look at the variant with the laying on the cast concrete base of the board material in the form of a parquet. Of course, such work will require time and patience.
A creative view will have a path laid out at a certain distance dostochkami with sprinkled with colored pebbles or gravel spaces.
There are many ways to create a beautiful, unusual path from natural wood, but with your imagination you can create something amazing and unique.
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