Garden paths with their own hands: a selection of...

Garden paths with their own hands: a selection of design ideas + turn-based master classesThe 1st, which meets us because of the garden gate - a garden path leading to the porch. Through it to the left of the party: and to the bathhouse, and to the garden, and to the garage - such trails and paths run up. Forever it is more pleasant to move in accordance with a strong, well-groomed coating, mainly if near the wet grass through the rain or clay bottom. Let's forget about the designers and try to perform the garden paths with our own hands, and for this we need a little will and building materials, cheap and cheap.
What are all the garden paths?
What kind of classifications are not - and according to the material for the sake of production, and according to location, and according to size. We will take a sharing for the future, based on the method of the device.
Garden trails
This is an innate visibility, because the paths appear themselves for themselves, without special planning. Usually they are trampled by people's feet or tamped with wheels of garden machinery and serve to connect important points of the site - house, bath, garden, garden, gates. The ordinary dirt road has minuses (puddle then rain, puddles, overgrown grass), therefore it is likely only as a temporary option. The path, just right, is also allowed to equip: it's enough to lay a frame on the sides of cobblestones or paving slabs. The hiking trails are a balanced option for areas located in dry areas
Tracks with backfilling
They can be arranged freely: a ditch should be dug about 100 mm deep, lay geotextile (density more than 150 g/m?), according to the bottom and edges, and strengthen the sides with a curb-ribbon. It remains for the ready-made base to sleep pebbles, crushed stone, marble chips or screenings. If such a variation seems ordinary, it is permissible to kill for the species a stone or concrete slabs - orderly or randomly. For the convenience of moving the slab should be destroyed in the backfill, so that they were at the same level with the surface. Picking up gravel or rubble of different colors, you can paint the tracks or split them for the zone
Solid Fillways
A sturdy coating is perfectly suitable for the sake of a tremendous load. Paving of garden paths takes place for a concrete foundation with the forthcoming laying of decorative parts for it: tiles, paving stone, natural stone. The introduction of a different color material assigns the inborn visibility to the decor. It is better, if the finished object will be suspended above the ground for 50-70 mm - this will release it through water erosion and soil sediment. Tracks made of slabs or stone, laid for a concrete base, are distinguished by reliability and durability
Introduction of wood-based saws and brusks in work
The economical and lover of the gardeners variation - garden paths made of wood. More popular are two kinds:
with the introduction of wood bars
from woody cuts.
If the climate is more dispassionate than wet, it is allowed to use wood blocks or thick boards that are freely available in any construction hypermarket. It is better to brake for hard wood species. The monotonous segments (100 cm long, 30 cm wide and 15-20 cm wide) are cut and the base is laid for gravel or dust.
A separate bar should be treated with fuel oil or a special compound that protects through moisture and decay. With the same purpose for the underground portion of the bar, watery asphalt is applied, and sometimes a standard sand cushion is arranged. Such combined coatings should be better laid in the fall, because in winter time the land settles, due to which natural ramming is made. For the sake of paths from wood bars it is better to extract small gravel or crushed stone
Using spills of different size and color, it is possible to make unique variants of tracks
Old fallen trees for the dacha - a real discovery for the craftsmen. Cutting the trunks for the part, from the acquired parts - cuts - it is allowed to perform tree-lined garden paths that look alike perfectly, crossing the lawn or winding between the flower beds. In going will go not only trunks, but also thick branches, with spills from which it is comfortable to fill the voids between the large elements. Screening fastens individual elements, and geotextile protects the path through the germination of grass.
In order for wood products to serve endlessly, they must be processed from all sides by a hot drying oil, it is better to repeat the function twice. Between the cut and the ground lay a piece of geotextile or teflon.

A short master-class according to the laying of paving slabs
With the help of pictures and descriptions it is permissible to imagine, like to perform - the material of the magnanimous and strong. Paths from pavement tiles of the wrong shape look more natural than straight lines
For the sake of work, you will need:
Wood kijan
Rubber hammer
Stakes
Trowel
building height;
The rope
rake
broom
Watering hose
Channel channel;
manual tamping.
Materials: paving slabs (thickness 50 mm or 60 mm), curbs, crushed stone (fractions 20-50), dry mash for plaster or cement M400 (M500), dust, geotextile.

Now we look at all the stages of work execution. The main stop is planning. It includes the drawing product, the selection of the laying scheme and the shape of the figured parts, the choice of color (or several colors). At the same time, the amount of tiles (including spare tiles) and the rest of the material are compensated. There are abundant schemes for laying paving slabs, based on the alternation of products of different colors
Then we execute the markup. Faithfulness of actions is one of the criteria for correct styling. Roulette, pegs and rope will help to find the boundaries of work. Sometimes I have to walk according to the intended path, in order to realize, it seems more convenient to lay it. For the device of a path from paving tiles, the correctness of the markup and the sequence of works are important
Then the markup must complete the preparation of the base. For the beginning, a high discharge, humus, must be responsible for a depth of 20 cm. If the bottom is clayey, small stones will help. Then you need to make a sand or gravel pillow and a cement (concrete) screed. The multilayered base near the tiles should, in order to ensure that the track was strong, not sagged and washed away with water
Intermediate layers of sand and gravel allowed to lay geotextiles, making the construction more robust. A high discharge is a dry mash found in a store, or, without the help of others, a prepared amount of sand and cement. Discharge consistency (3-4 cm) should be leveled using a rake and a channel. Uniform division of the cement consistency is created with the help of ordinary garden rakes
The channel for the leveling of the surface can be changed by an ordinary wooden support
Now we are laying the tiles. Vein piling - through yourself, so as not to spoil the base. Products should be snug close, however with a gap of 1-2 mm. Each tile should be tampered with a wood kyanka. At the end, check the level and trim it with a rubber mallet. First lay whole elements, and only at the end cut the paving slab and lay the missing pieces. For the sake of high-quality laying of paving slabs, ordinary tools are needed - a rubber hammer and a wood kitten
For the sake of convenience in laying, the whole products are first placed, leaving voids on the sides
The voids are filled with tiles of the desired size along the curb
The frame is spread on each side, fixed with M100 substance and covered with sand. Seams between individual elements are covered with a sandy-cement consistency, which is then moistened with water from a hose. Add the mash to the places where it sagged, and repeat the watering. After 2-3 days, the track is quite ready.
Development of kneading concrete slabs for the sake of paths

Video instruction from 4 parts according to work with ready-made forms




Paths made of natural stone: strength for the century
Spectacular garden paths made of stone are allowed to be made of material that has been left after the construction of a house or a personal decor, for example, an alpine slide. The beauty of the paths is created by the uneven shape and the different size of the pebbles. For the creation of a beautiful path, stones of different size and color are suitable
The main stage - the return of the number of large pebbles. For the sake of this they are allowed to kill along the future path. Base for the sake of laying - a pillow made of sand, poured into a shallow ditch, unswervingly for the earth.
Probably, for the sake of combining the pebbles will need their finish. A Bulgarian or a more severe weapon will help. Possession of finished fabric is allowed by 2 methods: in the form of a pattern (relief, mosaic) or in disorderly order, alternating large pebbles with smaller ones. If you do not score the seams between the stones with a cement consistency, after a certain time they will overgrow the grass. This variation is also likely, it looks more natural. For the scheme, the approximate thickness of each layer is indicated, which should be adhered to during piling
The combination of stone of various species and plants is a sample of a path suitable for the sake of a site in the Mediterranean style
Stone pathways and paths are appropriate to be a landscape design of any style.

The current line is the introduction of plastic modules
If there is no time for the construction of a solid stone or tile covering, however, it is possible to eat the will to set paths in the garden with your own hands, it is possible to extract a fleeting variation - garden plastic paths. Ready-made modules, in most cases monotonous according to size and color, are sold in the store. The paint of plastic modules is chosen depending on the plot, for who they will be laid. In most cases, these are greenish or dark products
Apart from the low price, the plastic tracks have other advantages:
retain shape and appearance long time, wear out slowly;
have holes so that the water does not accumulate and go to the ground, in other words do not form puddles and do not make a fragrance
the plastic is virtually indestructible;
do not require constant care and attention, are perfectly cleaned and washed with water from a hose
resistant to chemical attack
Quickly installed and assembled in accordance with the principle of the designer
identically freely fit for any base - dust, humus, clay.
According to the end of the summer season, the plastic modules are dismantled, washed, dried and stored in the utility room before the next year. Plastic trails - a successful variation for the creation of temporary paths for lawns
The paths for the suburban area are made not only for the practical use, but also for the decoration of the terrain
Apart from the listed options, there are other future garden paths - brick, parquet, concrete blocks, as well as various combined options. The basic law of the choice of material for the sake of the path: it is forced to combine according to texture and color with the house and other structures.