Elements made of gravel are becoming increasingly popular in the garden. Because you can use gravel as a design element as well as simply as a path surface.
But a gravel path is not only visually appealing. It is also easy to put on and without any machines. Even amateurs can do it. On top of that, a gravel path in the garden is an inexpensive alternative to slab and paved paths. You can also let off steam creatively. This means that you can make the path straight or curved and of different widths as you wish. There are no limits to your imagination or your taste.
What you need
Tool:
- Embroidery
- Mason Cord
- Level
- Spade
- laying hammer
- Shovel
- Compressors
Material:
- Lawn Edging Stones
- round palisades
- Antifreeze gravel (grit 0/32)
- Mineral mixture/recycled gravel (grain 16/32)
- Garden Fleece
- Gravel surface
Step by step instructions
❶ Before you create the path, you must plan the route. Should the path be straight or curved? Once the decision has been made, you have to stake out the course with the help of embroidery and bricklayer's cord and thus mark it. Make sure that you use the spirit level to bring the bricklaying cord to the height of the upper edge of the path limit.
❷ Now you have to take the spade and cut the soil along the mason's cord. Then dig the path about 20 centimeters deep.
❸ So that the path does not later spread over the surrounding lawn, lawn edging stones are now buried as a lateral boundary and hammered in with the laying hammer. Check again and again whether the stones are aligned exactly vertically. Where curves are planned, you should use round palisades.
❹ Now you have to fill up half of the path with the antifreeze gravel and compact everything well. Then there is a 10 centimeter thick layer of mineral mixture/recycled gravel. Pay attention to a slope of up to 2 percent to avoid water accumulation. Then compact the layer again.
❺ Then lay the weed fleece so that grass and weeds do not grow latercan grow through the new gravel path.
❻ Now you can put the actual gravel or grit on top. The gravel or grit layer should be about 5 centimeters thick. The layer must be spread to just below the edge of the lawn stone.
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