The path of paving slabs. Recipes from the experts.

FORUMHOUSE users are well aware that life in the country - is not only pleasant, but also to constantly make the housework. Each equips its "ten acres" to your liking. And if the creation of landscape design - a matter of personal preference, the garden paths simply vital in any plot and any country. After all, apart from purely decorative purposes, it tracks allow us to move freely in the area, regardless of the season.

Therefore, the materials for paving garden paths are increased requirements, such as durability, safety, environmental friendliness and presentable appearance. All these requirements are met by Pavement. expert advice and user of our forum will help you put the tiles by yourself!

How to make a track from the tile. Planning.

Any construction should begin with careful planning of all work. Is no exception and laying paving slabs. First and foremost, you should pay attention to the following points:

The total number of tracks and their location on the plot.

The key rule can be stated as follows: "The central path must lead from the entrance to the station to the house." If the site has a garage, workshop or garden furniture, it is necessary to put the track to them. Thus, you will be able to provide the zoning area, allowing unobstructed passage to each building.

The width of the pavement tracks.

The path leading to the house, should be the width to her might to miss two adults easily, reaching toward each other. On average, this amounts to between 1 and 1.5 meters.
The tracks, which are used less frequently and lead to flowerbeds or garden beds, it is possible to make a width of 0.5 to 0.8 meters.
It should also be clear about the functional purpose lanes.

Denis Bogdanov (in landscape landscaping specialist, Nick is offline Denis Vlad-h):

- I for myself clearly share the tracks on the breeds, leading to the gazebo, and functionality, which are subjected to high loads and lead to the house or garage.

Tracks that are experiencing a heavy load, require a more thorough preparation of the substrate than the tracks that are from time to time.

Denis Vlad-h:

You should also consider how you will take care of the garden path in winter and autumn. Unlike bulk tracks, take care of the track of the paving slabs easier. Removing snow and fallen leaves, you will not cast aside the rubble.

The second most important, after the functionality, characteristics of the garden path - much more pleasant to walk on it. And in order to understand this, you can use the secret landscape designers.

Vladimir Petrov (Director of Petriv Landscape Designe):

I always advise first go through the pre-marked paths and make sure everything is comfortable and convenient for them to travel to all members of the household. I can say that after this "walk" is almost always necessary to make adjustments to the original layout plan track.

In addition to determining functional garden paths, it is necessary to choose the thickness of the tile. And here it is better to adhere to the following rules.

In addition to determining functional garden paths, it is necessary to choose the thickness of the tile. And here it is better to adhere to the following rules.

Konstantin Merzlyakov (expert factory "Factory Gothic", Moscow):

For garden paths and the local area, where no calls in passenger vehicles, Pavement tracks can be no thicker than 40-50 mm. A track for providing passage of a passenger car and the parking space, the thickness of the tile should be at least 60 mm.

Vladimir Petrov (Director of Petriv Landscape Designe):

Initial preparation for laying garden paths are usually connected with the dredging, and it should be linked to geoplastikoy your site. For large differences in elevation, slope, etc., need to transfer and export of large land mass - a very costly exercise, which requires the use of construction equipment

How to put a track from the tile. Recommendations made.

Paving stone - is environmentally clean and durable finish for garden paths. And its durability and beauty, primarily will depend on the quality paving and laying technology compliance.

Konstantin Merzlyakov:

Modern paving slabs made of concrete. Form of tiles can be any that allows you to successfully enter the track in the garden landscape design of any site.

The service life of concrete tile vibropressed an average of 15 years, provided the right training base.

And, as any coating Pavement require care in use (cleaning, use gidrofobiziruschih coatings, etc.).

The first step in the preparatory work for laying paving slabs to be laid is a breakdown of the circuit area and exposure control, "beacons." Taking into account the angles of the territory, linking to existing areas, slopes. After work were produced by circuit breakdown, proceed to prepare a base, which comprises the following activities: planning, support layer device, the installation of curbs and unit leveling the sand layer under the tile.

We do track of paving slabs in the following sequence:

• Detached excavation boxes for board stone;
• Installed on board stone perimeter portion. Curb stone is needed for a strong fixation paintings paving slabs;
• Poured underlayment;
• Produced stacking base;
• Stack tiling;
•  Filled with the tile grout.

It is also necessary to remember that when laying the tiles should be guided by the following standards.

Alexander Loginov (Technical Director, TD Brier Company):

Work on paving coating apparatus to be performed according to the SNP 3.06.03-85 "Highways" snip and III-10-75 «Improvement areas".

A self-stacking process can be broken down into a series of sequential steps:

• Planning and design of the garden path. It is necessary to determine the type of soil on the site. Then develop a plan of garden paths, choose a design and pattern tile layout;
•  Calculation of the cost of the necessary materials;
•  Execution of works on laying the garden path.

Let us consider each of the items.

Alexander Loginov:

Choose how tiling depends on the soil conditions and the following operating conditions of the area: a blind area of ​​the building, the pedestrian zone, a platform for travel and car parking etc.

It should be remembered that the result of your work in the first place will depend on the thoroughness of the preliminary layout and preparation of the basis for laying tiles.

The plan includes the following points:

• draw plan portion to be tiled;
• measure of land in order to cause the size of the plan;
• Based on the above calculation points to produce the required number for laying tiles and the number of materials for preparing the substrate.

After drawing up a plan to begin the markup for future tracks.

Alexander Loginov:

First, determine the direction of water flow. Note that the water must leave the building blind area or along a path in the drainage wells or on lawns. The slope can be longitudinal, transverse, longitudinal and transverse, but not less than 0.5%, ie 5 mm per meter.

slope direction must be such that the water dripping from the paving drains or on the lawn, but not the building!

After a defined place for laying tiles, indicate the track boundary. To do this, on the border area are driven pegs on which pull a cord or twine. You can then proceed to the excavation by adhering to these guidelines:

• Excavation is made so that after the installation of the front surface of the tiles came to the set level of your site;
• The resulting after excavation pad tamped and leveled;
• If the ground is soft, it is necessary to moisten (to shed water from a hose) and a ram.

Vladimir Petrov

Drainage and sewerage in livnovku or storage well, you need to think about and to mount even during the preparatory stage of the work on laying garden paths.

Konstantin Merzlyakov:

When laying the paving slabs on the complex curved surface and with a large difference in height is necessary when planning to lay tiles on a greater percentage rate (cutting, trimming, etc.).

Substrate preparation of paving track

The most important stage of laying paving slabs - training grounds. Right foundation will not allow the track or platform "prosest" to ensure their longevity. It should be borne in mind that, despite the tight seams between the tiles, the base is still soaked with water. Therefore, the base needed drain water permeable support layer (gravel, crushed stone). Then some of the water from the surface will be allocated through the paving stone and the carrier layer into the soil.

It is also important to understand some of the layers is the correct version of the cake base for laying tiles. It is also important to understand some of the layers of the cake is the right base for laying tiles.

Alexander Mishin (Expert Company "Wienerberger Brick"):

Pie represents several layers: natural subgrade, subbase, the backsheet, "B" and, in fact, "pavement".

"Bed" - a layer of sand or fine gravel. Subbase is a bulk layer of soil and the underlying layer consists of gravel or crushed stone.

Alexander Mishin:

The thickness of the "bed" in any form subgrade average of 3-5 cm. The thickness of the remaining layers should be formed, based on indicators such subgrade as humidity, density and composition.

Alexander Loginov:

For the main carrier layer applied frost, uniform grain structure of the material (crushed stone, gravel). This material should be laid evenly in height and with the necessary slopes.

To construct a conventional walkway, required to make the carrier layer thickness of 10-20 cm. When the device for the passage of cars and parking platforms use a layer of 20-30 cm. At higher loads the carrier layer increases, and is put in 2-3 layers, each layer is compacted vibratory plates or vibratory rollers.

As mentioned above, the method of substrate preparation largely depends on the expected load on a garden path. It is also necessary to consider the bearing capacity of soil.

If a base is so-called heavy or clay soil, or have swampy land, the thickness of the crushed stone foundation must be made at least 10 cm. Then laid geotextile.

Geotextile good water tight and prevents materials mixed (mixing materials leads to the formation of voids and gaps in the coatings).

Alexander Mishin:

Using geotextile appropriate in the case where natural clay base is located in a swampy area and has an increased humidity. A layer of geotextile arrange above the natural ground base.

The next layer of our "pie" - based screening of geotextile.

Oleg Novitsky:

Backfilled classifying portion (or sand). Dropout layer should be at least 10 cm. This layer must be carefully compacted. At this stage, you need to accurately align the level of the entire base for laying with a rule or other instrument.

Screenings are not very good property - caking. This means that over time, the base becomes almost monolithic, and then, because of its low strength, it cracks, and in the coating cracks and sinks. To avoid such troubles, use to seal Vibrating not spend working in rainy weather. The best screening for such works - dry.

We then proceed to create a base level, guided by the following algorithm:
- and Bounds axial line portion marked rope;
- loose sand can be aligned just below the edges of the curb;
- Sealing the resulting cushion vibratory plates.

Oleg Novitsky:

To seal the sand layer is well suited vibrotrambovochnaya electric or petrol engine with a rubber sole. With it, you can not only qualitatively prepare gravel-sand bed, but also to avoid further subsidence and falling through the soil under the laid tiles.

Alexander Loginov:

It must be remembered that all the base layers of sleep off, leveled and compacted, given the 0.5% slope th!

Completes the preparatory stage dumping river sand or cement-sand mixture. For this purpose, the base layer is filled clay-free river sand 1-2 cm thick without seal layer should be porous.

DSP (cement-sand mixture) is taken in a ratio of 1: 8-1: 10, as Cement is required to bind the sand, so it washed out with water.

Alexander Mishin:

Use of a cement-sand mixture as a "bed" is justified only in the case when an intensive vehicular traffic expected on the tile surface. Prigarazhnaya and pedestrian area of ​​private houses do not belong here, because movement and the load is not as intense.

Laying of paving slabs

Laying begin:

• from the lowest point;
• by optically critical limits;
• from conspicuous elements: porch, front door in the house;
• Hand laying tiles diagonally produced in the direction "by itself", not to disturb the prepared top layer.

Before laying the first row of tiles to meet the exact location of the seams, it is necessary to pull a cord in the entire length and width of the object. After that, adhering to the cord, start packing.

Check the position and straightness of the seams is recommended to carry out every three rows of laid paving slabs. Laying is performed with the help of a rubber hammer (mallet) with light blows on the tile. Every 3-5 m laid but not yet compacted paving slabs its surface is controlled by means of the two-meter rule or building level.

Alexander Loginov:

As a frame of the track should be used curbs. These fences should be done before the installation of the outside of the track to prevent lateral displacements and draft tiles.

Along the edges of the marked area on the cord spanned dig a trench depth and small size (to curb entered into this trench to a desired level). The base of the trench must be compacted, pour, set on concrete curb.

Border may be visible or hidden - it depends on the will. If the border is hidden, then the top of the tile should be greater than the top of the curb on the chamfer height.

Oleg Novitsky:

To reduce the number of tiles on the cuts, begin the longest series of the curb, laying whole tile directly to him. The void comprise exactly half the tiles. When cutting out a whole you get two right halves, and, I believe, the waste can be completely avoided. This technique can be applied to a symmetrical shaped tiles.

The main enemy of any paving slabs - this freezing water. Therefore it is impossible to put the tiles on the monolithic, waterproof foundation, concrete floor. Outdoors is prohibited to put the tiles on the solution.

Jointing compactors

After coating compacted tile layouts vibratory plates. After the first coating vibrocompaction poured onto the surface of dry sifted clean sand so that the sand is easily and tightly filled in the gap between the tiles. Loose sand is dispersed evenly throughout the brush area and hammered into the joints, "tying" covering all together.

Konstantin Merzlyakov:

The gap between the tiles providing the so-called shovoobrazovateli - convexity on the side surfaces of each tile.

Alexander Loginov:

Remember that when sweeping seams in any case can not be used cement-sand mixture, because wash it from the tile surface after drying of the composition will be very difficult. Sand falls asleep on the surface and in the joints, should be clean and free from salts, clays and organic materials that can cause the appearance of efflorescence and plants.

And in order to build a durable finish, when working you must adhere to the following guidelines:
Do not lay the tiles in the rain without a special canopy.
Do prosypku seams with a mixture of sand and cement.
If the site has a "complex", heaving soils, it is necessary to consider that its displacement can deform the tile. Then perform more complex styling - with concrete pad preparation as a basis, which ensures durability.

Thus, when self-laying garden paths necessary to consider every detail and carefully plan all stages of work. After all the way to your home starts with a garden path, made with his own hands!

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