How to make curbs for tracks yourself?

Without beautiful garden paths, you can not get a neat design of the site. The material for their creation is usually clinker brick, paving stone, decorative tile or concrete. Sometimes more exotic and unusual elements are used: wood, grass, gravel, etc. Curbs are used to make the decoration of the track itself complete. In most cases, this element is mandatory. About what are the curbs for the tracks, and we'll talk further. Also, in all details, we will understand with what technologies this element of landscape design can be made.

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The garden border performs several functions at once:

• Gives the design of the track a spectacular finished look;
• Prevents the growth of lawn grass;
• Strengthens the edges of the path;
• Prevents the entry of melt water into the path.

Types of garden curbs

This element is made of a variety of materials: brick, concrete, wood, metal, plastic or even plants. Very beautifully it can look like a ready-made, bought in-store curb, and assembled by yourself. In size, these elements are high and low, wide and narrow. The most important thing when selecting a material is to try to make the border blend harmoniously with the design of the track, as well as the whole plot as a whole.

Use of bricks

Such curbs for tracks with their own hands to collect very simply. This material is usually used in the event that the path itself is lined with stone or filled with concrete. Most often for the device of a border choose not ordinary brick, but facing. Such material is characterized by increased strength and resistance to the effects of unfavorable environmental factors.

The technology of making curbs made of bricks is very simple. In most cases, this element is collected before paving or pouring the track itself. First, on the ground, the outlines of its passage are marked. Further on, they dig out small trenches (about 2/3 of the height of the brick depth). At the bottom you can pour a little sand or gravel. In this case, the trench should be dig deeper.

The bricks themselves are not installed vertically, but at an angle, so that the edge of the curb turns out to be "jagged".

Application of wood

Curbs for paths of this type fit very well into the design of areas in the style of Provence, country, Russian, Ukrainian, etc. Framed elements of this material are usually tracks laid out with wood or gravel, and also just sown with low grass. Sometimes, for the manufacture of such a curb, a board is used, placed on the butt in the trenches excavated along the edges, or a bar. However, such tracks do not look very solid. In addition, the board and even the beam - the materials are short-lived.

Much more effective and original look curbs from the logs. The latter can be spilled independently from thick branches or thin tree trunks or purchase finished material in a store. In the purchased borders, the logs are bound with wire and are already processed from decay and insects. Therefore, in the installation they are much simpler.

As in the case of brick, the curb of the logs is collected before laying the path itself. After performing the marking, the trench is also excavated. The sawn logs are treated with an antiseptic. It's a good idea to smear one of their edges, which will be in the ground, linseed oil or used engine oil. The material prepared in this way is simply installed in the trench vertically.

In order to make these curbs for the tracks with their own hands neat and attractive, wood blocks can be covered with oil for wood. Varnish for this purpose is better not to use. Even imported products of this kind do not tolerate too high humidity.

Concrete border

This is one of the most popular and durable species. The depth of the trench along the edges of the path under this border should be about 4 cm. The optimum height and width of the concrete bands are 20 x 15 cm. It is not necessary to arrange a substrate of sand or gravel under such a curb. It will be enough just to level the bottom of the trench. You can lay it with some waterproofing material, for example, roofing material. Blocks or paving stones are installed in a trench closely.

You can also pour curbs for the tracks with your own hands of concrete yourself. In this case it will be necessary to make the formwork. For its manufacture, plywood or (if the path has bends) fits thick sheets. At the end of the pouring, the top of the concrete curb is carefully leveled using the level.

How to prepare a concrete mix

The solution is prepared as follows:

• The sand and dry cement are poured into the trough and mixed thoroughly.
• Add water in such a way that the mixture is not too thick and not too liquid.

The proportion of sand / cement should be 4/1. Ready curbs several times a day - at least within a week - should be watered with water from a hose or a bucket. Otherwise, it will be cracked.

Wicker items

This curb for the walkway at the cottage looks very beautiful and unusual. For its manufacture it is necessary to prepare:

• Thin chunks;
• A lot of willow rods (the same length);
• Wooden sticks.

Chubaks are digging along the path at a distance equal to the length of willow rods. Between them stick sticks. Next, willow twigs are braided. It is better to soak them beforehand, then it will be more convenient to work. For weaving rods use several pieces (2-3). Each bundle is held behind the first stick, then before the second, and so on. You can fasten the rods together with a thin wire. After the first section is ready, proceed to the weaving of the second.

Plastic curbs for garden paths

This ready-made version can last a very long time and is installed simply. Represent the plastic curbs flexible wide tape, usually implemented in the babin. To facilitate cutting, it must be unwound and spread out in a section under the sun's rays. Further along the future track a narrow groove with a depth of about 8 cm is dug out.

It installs a plastic border. For tracks, you can use a ribbon of any colors. The main thing is that the shade harmoniously fit into the design of the site. Usually, these curbs are green. But it can look beautiful and yellow, and gray, and any others. The installed tape is buried and ground.

"Live" curb

This is the most beautiful and the most difficult version to execute. To make a "live" curb, it is best to use plants such as a horizontal cotoneaster or boxwood. In order to make the track harmonious, the width of the green tape should not exceed 30 cm. A curb is arranged in this case simply by planting the plants a short distance from each other. The grown up bushes should close tightly afterwards.

Of course, unlike the usual, "live" curb for the garden paths will require much more care. It will have to be cut off and watered periodically (2-3 times per season). Very beautiful look bordyrychiki and from decorative grassy stunted plants. In this case, along the edges of the path, just arrange long narrow flower beds.

Metal border

It is also quite handsome and at the same time very durable option. Made such curbs for tracks can be made of aluminum, copper, steel and well suited for the site, whose design is made in the style of minimalism. Purchased options for such tapes can be decorated with coining, have curly edges, that is, look very attractive. Installation of this type of curb - the procedure is extremely simple. The tape simply digs along the edges of the track in a strictly vertical position.

How to make a curb for paths from bottles

Using this throwback material, you can arrange a curb even for the longest track in just a couple of hours. Of course, he will not be particularly handsome, but he will manage a penny. In order to make a curb, the bottles are simply dug into the ground with the neck down. Diversify the design of the tape can be using a material of different colors. The very neck at the bottles before digging is desirable to cut. You need to dig them up to half the height.

To the merits of such curbs for the tracks can be attributed not only cheapness, but also durability. Plastic does not rot like a tree, and does not rust like metal.

As you can see, making curbs for the track is the procedure in most cases the simplest. If you do everything in a hurry, you will get a very effective element of landscape design, durable and reliable.