How to make a paved cobbled path on the sand

To pave a garden path, you can use almost any material, the choice depends on how much you want to spend on such a path. In any case, even if the length of the tracks in the country is large, the total cost will not be too great.

In this case, concrete bricks were used to pave the path. They can imitate any natural or artificial material, for example: natural wild stone, curly tiles, paving stones, etc.

The thickness of such concrete tiles is such that at standard sizes it is well stable to almost any "garden" load, the same applies to any weathering (rain, frost, snow, ice). By the way how to make such tiles with your own hands you can see here, at this link.

Places with non-sandy, sandy soil allow you to lay large, but rather thin tiles. Where the soil "plays", the best option will be the bricks 10 x 20 cm by 9 cm thick.

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The most accessible to beginners way of paving paths at the cottage is laying on the sand. This path is simple in construction and in operation.

On the soils of the soil, the paving on the cement mixture after winter will go through large cracks (the wide tile will simply tear), while the sandy masonry will only be covered with mounds. Some of them spring themselves, and the rest are easily repaired.

With minor repairs, the tiles are removed, the sand layer is leveled and the tiles are laid again. In this way, you can replace one material paving on another, or raise the path relative to the soil.

If necessary, the track is easily dismantled. The vacated place is used for a flower garden or a kitchen garden, and the laid out paving is laid again on another site.

The path itself (the figures in the photo indicate the following stages of construction)

1. A track is marked with pegs stuck in the ground or with twine laid. Between the markings take out the soil. On non-playing soils, a depth of 5-10 cm plus paving thickness is sufficient, on heaving soils - 10-15 cm plus paving.

2. Dig a trench. For beginners it is useful to measure from 3 racks to control the width and depth of the groove. The removed turf is neatly folded to the side.

H. The bottom of the trench is well compacted, the edges are leveled, making the walls sheer. If the surface of the plot is uneven, on the rises the trench is made of normal depth, and on the slopes it is slightly shallower. The tiles protruding in the depressions are subsequently turfed, masking the elevation.

4. The trench is covered with coarse-grained river sand with a layer of 5-15 cm (depending on the soil) and compacted with a manual rammer, leveling with a level. For drainage under the sand, you can lay a layer of fine gravel.

5. On the leveled sandy surface, paving is laid, knocking on the entire surface of the bricks for leveling. If necessary, add or remove excess sand with a trowel. Horizontal paving is periodically checked by the building level.

6. The slots are filled with dry sifted sand, driving it with a rare hard broom on the paved surface.

7. After filling all the cracks and leveling the soil around the paving, the path is well spilled from the hose with the sprinkler. After drying the track, if necessary, add sand and again spill it with water.

Tip:

Try to lay the tracks in such a way that they are in demand.
Deadlock to the flower garden in the corner of the garden will not be as popular as the path past the flower garden to the bath.
The path should not loop around the site, so that there is not the temptation to "cut off" the corners a little and subside the route trampling everything in its path.

Author: A.Krasavtseva. Photo by Yury Solovyov

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Palych
15/10/2013 (06:52) #

At the dacha many works our brother the summer resident spends literally on his knees. For example, when laying the floor, concreting the tracks. And my wife, working on the beds, does almost everything on her knees. And in order to make it as comfortable as possible, we made special
knee protectors of old tires. Cut out of them two pieces of length 15-20 cm and attached to them two pairs of ribbons. With the help of these ribbons we fix the prepared knee pads. With them, even in wet weather, working on the ground, you will not catch your knees.

Reader
20/09/2013 (10:45) #

Beautifully in our country house! Especially elegant garden paths paved with stones. It’s only in the masonry slots that weeds sometimes start, it is very difficult to get rid of them. I tried different methods of destruction of tenacious weeds - all of them are not bad in themselves, but it is better to apply them in combination.
• The sooner we start fighting against weeds, the more successful it will be. It is important to remove not only greens, but also the root. A tool consisting of
From an acute narrow wedge and hook. It passes into the gap and removes roots and excess soil on which the weeds grow.
• Efficiently powerful jet
water from the hose. Take care that water does not wash out the solution that holds the stones of the path.
• On a hot day, pour the places of weed accumulation with a concentrated solution of common salt, and most of the plants will die. Water carefully so as not to damage the beds and flower beds.
• In autumn, the burning of plants will help. Suitable gas burner, fixed on a long metal pin.
Every year, the weeds on the paths will be less.
Lyudmila Ionova