Each owner of dacha or house tries to make the site ideal. Of course, on the site there have to be garden paths. Them to issue the easiest and original way – to make tile with own hands.
It is possible just to make timbering, to fill it with cement, to wait when material stiffens, and everything is ready. But such designs turn out brittle and ordinary-looking. Much more attractively paths from separate tiles look.
Materials for production
To make tiles for paths, the minimum of tools and materials is required:
- cement;
- crushed stone of crushed fines (it can be replaced with sand);
- forms for solution filling;
- water;
- capacity;
- shovel;
Forms for preparation of tile can be got in shop, to make with own hands from wooden bars or to take plastic containers in which foodstuff is stored. It is important that constructions were rugged and could endure several fillings. The form is simpler, the it is easier to stack tile, it is difficult to join intricate figures.
How to make tile with own hands?
In the beginning it is necessary to pick up materials correctly. You should not save on cement, it is better to choose brand 500 that the tile maintained heavy loads and has served long. If for solution sand is chosen, then before mixing it needs to be sifted, but small pebbles can be not deleted.
Paths can be made multi-colored if to add dyes to concrete. It is important that enzymes with firmness transferred atmospheric precipitation and the alkaline environment.
For preparation of mix in capacity we fill up sand and cement in proportion 3 to 1, then accurately we pour in water and constantly we stir solution. It has to turn out dense and elastic.
As soon as solution is prepared, it is possible to fill in forms. It is important that it has filled all corners, for this purpose it needs to be stamped carefully trowel. Further the tile needs to be dried up carefully within 6-7 days, to take out from forms and to leave for 1 month that constructions became rugged.
That garden paths have turned out durable, for tile it is possible to add pieces of beaten brick or ceramics and that the stiffened cement departed from forms better to solution, oil them any.