Paving Sidewalk Tiles with Your Hands

Sidewalk tile is a very convenient building material to cover the tracks near the house or in the suburban area. For the paving of small tracks, masters are usually not treated. And why? Laying paving slabs with your own hands is a real and relatively simple exercise.

Areas up to 100 square meters under the condition of light operating conditions can be completely paved by yourself. How to lay a paving slab? The technology of laying is clear and simple even for non-professional builders.

Step 1: Select the shape and color of the tile

It is very diverse according to the parameters. Therefore, it can be linked to the color of the house or the surrounding landscape. How to make a paving tile adornment of the infield? This can help a landscape designer. But with no less success you can do it yourself. The main thing to think about is a color and texture combination with the exterior of the house and the area adjacent to it.

Step 2: Preparation of tools

Laying paving tiles with their own hands will require a rubber hammer, a trowel, stakes (wooden or metal), a level, a cord, a watering hose, a diffuser for it, a broom, a mop or rake, rammer, profile (any smooth tool), channel, Diameter, sand and cement M500.

Step 3: Prepare the base for styling

Select the location of the cover, determine the location of the drain. Laying paving slabs with your own hands requires you no less attention than from a professional builder. So, think carefully about how to make a stock. Slope for drainage should be made at least 5% per meter, the location can be chosen longitudinal, transverse or longitudinal-transverse - as more like.

At the edges of the site, drive in the pegs. Align the surface so that it is in the same plane (remove excess ground or fill, if there are pits).

Then the pad should be more carefully leveled with rakes. Soft soil should be moistened, watering from a hose with a sprayer and walking along it with a rammer.

Measure out the height of the base. It is better if it is two centimeters higher (in case of shrinkage). At the chosen height, stretch between the stitches cord-poryadovku.

On the site scatter the sand, razrovnit its rake. Pour it well with water.

If you work on a sunny day, wait about 2-3 hours, if it's cloudy - postpone further work for a day.

Now you can start final sanding with a profile (any tool with a flat and flat surface).

The foundation is ready.

Step 4: Screw

Prepare the sand-cement mixture in proportions of 8: 1. Its height should reach 3-4 centimeters. Sprinkle the mixture and straighten the screed with a channel to an even surface.

Step 5: Laying the elements

Decide finally on the picture. Pull the cord around the tile. Lay the first row of tiles on the cord. According to the rules, the tiles are laid from themselves on a leveled surface.

Lay the tile diagonally. Take care that with the subsequent tiles the width of the seams does not increase. To do this, try to put a new element so that it closely adjoins the previous one.

If after installation some elements will be above the general level of a surface, level them with the help of a rubber hammer on a level.

Step 6: Stitching

Seams should be sand-cement mix. Moisten the mixture in the gaps by pouring them from the hose. You can then sprinkle the seams again.

Step 7: Install the transition curbs

This is necessary to give the site or track a finished look. Incomplete sections of the paving are now conveniently filled with halves or cut-out pieces of tiles. Everything will get geometric beauty.

To install curbs along the edges of the laid tiles, excavate the trench to the depth of the curb. The border is exposed to a liquid solution M100. Curb borders should also be spilled and filled with sand.

All is ready. These are the main points, the knowledge of which requires the laying of paving slabs with your own hands.