Sooner or later most of summer residents decides to put in full order space between beds. But here than to improve footpaths – it is necessary to choose still. It is possible to make covering of fashionable paving slabs or to be closer to the nature and to find different ways.
We pour concrete
Usual much option – monolithic concrete paths. Over covering it is necessary to puff a bit, but on it it will be convenient to roll wheelbarrow, for example (of course if truly to calculate chatter-free width). Future path is marked in this case (having added at the edges allowance for timbering) and remove on all its extent soil on depth of 25 cm. On the easy well drained soils it is enough to take out 10 cm of the earth and to fill in solution in the stamped bed. But on heavy the special pillow is necessary. At first fill about 5 cm of gravel, crushed stone or slag, then about 10 cm of sand and each layer densely stamp. The timbering is built of edgewise strong boards which have to act from the earth on 3-4 cm. It is checked on level and fix pegs. From within the box can be oiled for concrete sticking prevention. Solution is prepared from 1 part of cement, by 2 parts of sand and 3 - gravel. Mix is filled in in timbering and in a couple of hours smoothed, and then allow to stand week in the humidified state, having covered with tarpaulin then the timbering can be removed.
For appearance it is possible to add dyes to solution, and to press decorative elements into even damp covering – stones, splinters of bright ware, beautiful ceramic tile. Before use all this needs to be washed out and to soak slightly in water. On slightly hardened surface it is possible to scrape out slots for imitation of intervals between plates of unusual form, and then to fill them with concrete paint. At last, in hardware stores, standard forms for imitation of natural stone of their concrete are on sale, however they are good for direct paths defined width.
Time plate, two plate
Fans of natural materials can construct path of boards. That they did not rot, it is necessary to choose larch and to tinker with construction. At first the path is covered with binding gravel in 5-6 cm and carefully it is leveled. On gravel establish massive bars, previously having impregnated them with the solution protecting tree from decomposition. And already stack boards on bars, having raised them and having made gaps in 1-2 cm for water running off.
If the path is built of saw cuts, imitating paving by stone, they also at first are processed anti-septic tank. Throughout path take out soil on depth churochek plus 5 cm. Having stamped the earth, do pillow of gravel (3 cm) and sand (2 cm). The pillow is spilled and stamped, stack saw cuts, between them fill gravel with sand spill.
Important points
Wooden paths can seem too slippery, it is better to avoid them if children and elderly family members have risk of trauma. The normal construction brick badly is suitable for paths, it will collapse in a couple of years, it is necessary to buy special sidewalk clinker. Having solved it is simple to powder paths with gravel, you remember that children or elderly people can fall to them, and sharp pebbles will strongly injure their skin. It is possible to avoid the gulf of paths water, having raised them above soil on 5-7 cm. That the footpath was not destroyed by grass, the bed can be covered polyethylene or special geotextiles. On the new seasonal dacha you do not hurry to build paths: in one or two years it will become precisely clear what routes it is the most convenient to move.