How to prepare a solution for garden paths + rules for filling moldsIf you want to change the design of the suburban area with a unique garden path or path, and the products offered in the hypermarket do not suit you, for any reason, risk and make a tile without the help of others, literally from improvised materials. For this, one must acquire special plastic molds and learn to prepare a solution for the sake of garden paths. Add a little imagination, a line of skills, patience - and your track will not only be strong, but amazingly beautiful.
It seems to be cheap and beautiful?
Immediately it is easy to find out all the way to make personal creativity. In shops it is allowed to bribe comfortable plastic stencils for the production of tiles. You are preparing the cement mortar, pour it into the mold - and after a few days you get a tile of this color, imitating the factory analog for the sidewalk. Monochrome, colorful, motley paths look amazing in the garden, among the blooming trees and flower beds, and for the greenish, neatly trimmed lawn, and between the vegetable beds
Tracks made of strong concrete tiles are able to last 10 years - according to their strength they are not inferior to the foundation of the structure or the overlapping of a small bridge. They are comfortable and functional - and all the way thanks to properly prepared cement mortar. The whole solid form stands near 1200 rubles, and the light variation - the stencil with cells of various shapes - is much cheaper. Depending on the material, its value fluctuates in 50 before 250 rubles
Some master craftsmen prefer their own creations to the purchase option, therefore they make shapes without the help of others, using wood bars or an iron profile. It is allowed to put together a rectangle, a square, a lattice or a short hexagon from the small planed bars, who can quite serve the form for the sake of pouring cement mortar
It seems to be true to execute cement mortar?
Knowledge without the help of others to prepare a cement slurry at home is needed for everyone who plans to undertake construction or repair work. A sticky piece, hardening over time, is needed for the sake of laying bricks, and for the creation of stone decorative compositions, and even for the sake of sealing a hole in the wall.
For the construction of garden paths you need an ordinary solution, who can cook with their own hands. All its multifunctional properties depend almost entirely on the preparation of material and proportions, and therefore we will carefully consider how to fill molds for the sake of garden paths, so that it will serve for many years.
Which should you cook? It is very proud to correctly choose the capacity that suited the desire and according to the size, and according to the convenience of working with it. In the standard, the size of the tank is forced to respond to a portion of the solution that you want to cook from a single dose. Extremely drink capacity will force you to repeat the function - and this is an increase in the time spent for work, 2 times. In a tremendous container it is awkward to mix the components and make a homogeneous mass. Also important are the properties of the reservoir, such as the stability and strength of the walls. For small amounts of cement (if you operate the tile without hurrying, for example, according to the output), a small container of strong plastic with low sides is suitable
If your dacha has an ancient metal bath, which is usually used for the storage of rainwater, it can begin with a beautiful temporary option for the purpose of diluting the cement slurry, or other large dishes that meet the requirements listed.
Apart from the capacity, you need a tool for mixing the mass in front of a uniform state. Act with a shovel or a wood bar is not right - the solution will lump down into pieces, which will affect the poor quality of the tile. The best situation is a building mixer or, like it is again called, a hand mixer; it is allowed to use it without a drill with a special nozzle
Try to excuse yourself in one place all the time, so that during the process of manufacturing you do not have to leave and delay the action.
Component Selection
For the standard, widely used cement mortar, 3 constituent parts are needed: cement, dust and water. It seemed like a desire, everything was very simple - mixed together all over the place together and got a beautiful material for the sake of pouring into shapes. All there are fairly important moments, the failure of which will then be reflected in the quality of the tile. For example, dust. It is permissible to find a certain number of sand species, which differ in particle size, weight, and composition. We can use ordinary quarry or river dust, which has such properties, like cleanliness (for this it should be washed), homogeneity, lack of impurities
Cement - a dry mash in cardboard packages - is forced to exist friable, freshest, with not expired shelf life. If in your back room you keep two sacks from the construction site 10 years ago, it is better to leave them, as a good solution from such cement can not be obtained.
Here are some tips through professional construction professionals who will help fulfill a brilliant solution:
If you see a small lump in a dispassionate consistency, it is better to sift the medicine using a special sieve (for the sake of working with a stone there are enough cells of 10mm x 10mm, however, for a plastering work you need a sieve with 5mm x 5mm cells).
Selected visibility of cement for street work - 300 or 400.
Correctly determine the proportions of all 3 components. For the sake of the tracks the usual analogy 1: 3, where for 1 part of cement is 3 parts of sand, is perfectly suitable. Bulk materials can be measured by buckets or other suitable containers
For the sake of giving a certain color or configuration of certain features (viscosity, strength), modern components, for example, plasticizers or colored granules, are added to the solution.
Be careful to make the mortar, so that it does not become greasy, in other words, containing a copiously rich component. A greasy piece is plastic, comfortable for application, but it forms a quantity that dries up and eventually cracks - for the sake of garden paths this is not good. Being a defect of the binding element, we get a lean cement, who is extremely extremely endlessly freezing and also possessing inappropriate properties.
We need a sound cement, then hardening has good characteristics of strength and durability, but for the sake of it, it seems like one day and must fulfill the proportions. A pocket of cement weighing 25 kg costs 180 rubles before 250 rubles. The value depends on the manufacturer, the brand and the property of a dispassionate consistency
Water is added"by eye", before a little, then add in small portions. As a result, you should get a piece that resembles the viscosity of thick sour cream.
Making a cement slurry
Keep in mind that the finished mortar is allowed to be used for several hours, then it is quite inapplicable for casting, therefore in advance prepare food, molds, stencils - all the time, which should be for the production of road tiles.
In a container with thin layers of cement and dust - we should get more than 5-6 layers. This is for the sake of high-quality, uniform mixing of the components. Stop, if the overall height of the"pie"reaches 25-30 cm. Then take the shovel and try to keep it neat, but actively mix the consistency components: the more actively you tinker with the shovel, the better the coming solution will be. The uniformity of dry cement mortar is allowed to be found for the eye. If there are doubts about the purity of the mass - again pass through the sieve
Water is allowed to add a bit afterwards, like you make sure that you are completely ready to disperse the consistency, and more precisely, in its homogeneity. It is better to take a small container and add in small portions, so as not to overdo it and do not execute the solution extremely watery. Infuse the water slowly, a little stirring the mass.
The error of beginning builders are experiments with the temperature of the infused water. Some believe that the burning water will accelerate the action of dilution, and deliberately heat it, others pour ice liquid. Both are erroneous and may not work well for the property of a solution. The water should exist at the same temperature as the ambient air - in our case, it's certainly about a warm season. Ready-to-use mash for the sake of mold pouring should get a bit more watery than cement mortar for bricklaying
Another aspect concerns the moisture content of sand. Often use dust that lies steadily for the site. Of course, he could get wet when it rained. If you use wet, heavier dust, pour water again less. Is the solution ready? Proceed to the fill. Depending on the density and viscosity of the composition you have to eat for 1-3 hours, in order to pour out the solution in accordance with the forms.
Mosaic tile for cement base: detailed photo-instruction
Not many people like boring greyish paths, reminiscent of urban asphalted streets or betonki, hence we offer you the action of producing tiles, conventionally called mosaic. Our tile is far from the masterpieces of Spanish or Italian professional masters, nevertheless, beautiful even squares with ornament from colorful stones for the garden greenery look simple amazing. The size of the tile depends on your garden path design. A large one, with a side of 50 cm, is allowed to kill in a single formation - a narrow path will be obtained, a small path (30-40 cm) - in two or three parallel rows, or even without distinction
As a reward through ordinary tiles, consisting of a 1-m cement mortar, the above variation assumes the presence of an additional"weighty"component - pebbles. They can exist large or small, single-colored or multi-colored, round or flat. The pebbles are allowed to be replaced by fragments of clay or tile, pebbles are the essence, so that they do not slip during the rain. Colored stones for the sake of tiles were taken for the bank flowing near the river. If you do not get lucky with the ponds or the simple banks of the river turned out to be sandy, do not worry - the stones of the desired faction are always allowed to be purchased in one of the building companies
The basis for the tile is cement mortar, prepared according to the standard scheme described a little higher. Take the traditional formula: for 1 share of cement 3 parts of river sand. Mash is prepared in a tremendous capacity, using a short plastic measuring container.
Separate the solution portionwise, separately for each tile, is also allowed, but this action is quite long and labor-intensive, therefore we prepare the solution in an amount sufficient to fill 6-8 pre-prepared homemade molds. Forms are of ordinary construction and are boxes with low walls formed by boards of 30-50 cm in length. The thickness of the prepared tile can exist 5 cm before 15 cm.
Accurately fill the form of the substance, covered with a polyethylene film, oiled (suitable machine used). That the tiles were of similar thickness, we put an equal number of cement consistency. For the sake of accuracy, it is permissible on the sides of the planks to deceive the strips, which denote the height of the tile. The type of cement mortar is painstakingly leveled - we prepare for the sake of laying stones. Proud to withstand the right consistency of the mass, because in an extremely watery solution the pebbles will fail
Do not wait until the solution seizes, lay out for a kind of pebbles. Again, before making the solution, you can deceive a kind of rehearsal by spreading pebbles in a box"on dry"in order to find out the approximate number of pebbles needed for 1 tile. It should start from the corners - for no reason the tiles are much stronger, and the stone image - more accurate and correct. If you use pebbles of different sizes, then try to stack more in line with the perimeter of the
We continue to alternately lay stones, creating a congenital or geometrically correct image. It is allowed to alternate elements of different sizes or different colors. Spreading the perimeter, we try, so that the long side of the cobblestones lies along the edge. This will prevent the breakdown of the base on the sides after a long use and prolong the existence of the garden path
Before laying out larger stones, then fill the empty seats with small ones. The result is a beautiful multi-colored tile, external appearance is not inferior to the factory analog. For the specimen, the stones are laid out in natural order. There are also other options - in a checkerboard pattern, according to the spiral, rows on the slanting, herringbone, etc.
The outwardly protruding elements are the shortened existence of the tile and the grief for the sake of those who step on it, therefore, we stone the stones inwardly, so that their upper planes are equal to the concrete base. For the leveling of the surface and the tamping of the pebbles, we also use an improvised tool. In this case, we needed a construction trowel, which was left after plastering work
Therefore, all the active work on the creation of tiles is finished, it remains to wait. So that the concrete is not covered with cracks, it should be soaked 1-2 times a day. After 3-4 days, it will ripen, the solidified matter will go through the walls of the formwork, and the tile can be extracted, freeing the form for the subsequent portion of the solution. Ready tiles are allowed to lay down for the premises. As a rule, this cooked base is a sandy-gravel"layered pie", leveled and fenced with borders.
Tile is suitable for the construction of tracks or areas of any size and shape. Concrete mortar is needed not only for the sake of pouring into molds, but also for the sake of creating of an integral coating of individual tiles - for this you must fill with cement paste the joints between the tiles or extract it as an adhesive
The path for which a minimum of economical means is spent, looks surprising, mainly if there are constructions made of stone and cement mortar for the site. Beautiful forged gates and the highest stone fence - a beautiful field for the garden path of river stones. And notice - everywhere not the last occupation is an ordinary cement mortar prepared by own hands
And the end is a beautiful video about the book, it's kind of right to prepare cement mortar and put it out in molds for the sake of tile:
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