Garden paths with their own hands. We equip the dacha

Own land is the dream of many residents of modern megacities. Today it is no longer the notorious six hundred with plots and a shed for storing inventory, but a beautiful house and a garden created according to all the rules of landscape design. Of course, with the arrangement of the territory without garden paths can not do. They serve not only as a link between individual zones, but also complete a general compositional solution.

The device of garden paths from a tree and a stone - a problem not so simple, as can seem at first sight. To functionally organize space, you will need some knowledge of the field of construction and design.
Before you begin work on the device tracks you need to determine their location. As a rule, the path is laid along the shortest distance from one object to another. Often, in order to evaluate the perspective, the garden paths are made of sand and then spread out with tiles or wooden spills.

You can not miss out and such an important point, as the choice of material for flooring. If you decide to make garden paths with your own hands, but do not have special talents for building, it is better to give preference to wood or brick. The first approaches to most modern style solutions, except, perhaps, high-tech and modern. But for these cases option number two is quite suitable.

The master of the "golden hands" will be able to not only lay the paths with his own hands, but also make the tile paving directly in his garden. Fortunately, there are many devices for this. However, we will not go into these jungles, but try to figure out what is simpler. We begin with how to make garden paths with our own hands from ordinary wood. For this purpose, a log or bar is suitable. However, if there are old fruit trees on the site , this is an excellent excuse to get rid of them.

To equip the garden paths use plates, the thickness of which varies from 10 to 20 cm. The first thing to do is to plan and saw the wood into pieces of the right size. As you know, this material is very sensitive to weather and biological factors. Therefore, if you want the tracks to serve for a long time, the wood needs to be treated with a special antiseptic compound. For the bar, the drying oil, which is pre-applied in several layers and left to dry, is also suitable.

Impregnation with an antiseptic is most conveniently carried out in a deep container, where the wood is completely immersed. The whole process takes about 48 hours. After this time, the plates are left in the open air to dry.

Lay out the garden paths with their own hands is not too difficult. With this simple task, even a beginner will cope. First, you need to remove the top layer of turf along the width of the future path, to a depth of 30 cm. This is done not only to ensure that individual elements are better kept, but also so that the path does not flood with each shower. In the pit received, sand is first covered, then gravel. Thus, a drainage layer is created to promote good absorption of moisture. Over this "cushion", with a minimum gap, stack the dice. Spaces between them are covered with fine rubble.

To give the finished path a finished look allows a curb. For our case, the board is edged or brick. However, if you want to do everything well, it's very beautiful, and it's not too lazy to tinker, a fence can be built from separate, tightly fitted pegs. Do not forget that in this case the tree needs special pretreatment.

The paths made of bricks are more durable and durable, although not as beautiful as wood. But to build them much easier. Most often, red brick is used for this purpose, although silicate is also quite suitable.
The device of the track, in this case, begins with the removal of the turf layer to a depth of 15 cm. Then the groove is covered with sand, which is watered. The drainage layer is rammed, spreading with a slope with a slope from the central axis of the future path.

The brick is pushed as close as possible while leaving the gap minimal, rammed and then watered. The border for such a path can be made of bricks placed diagonally or lying vertically. It is perfectly suitable for such a case and edging board.

I must say that you can make such garden paths with your own hands from the waste accumulated during the construction of the house. In the matter will go the broken brick, rubble, sand, cement.

It is not necessary to make tracks from a single material, coatings can be easily combined. Wood and stone, red and silicate bricks ... Combining different colors and textures, you will get individual, unique solutions for your site.