How to transform the site on the slope: terracing their own hands

Getting Started terracing area? In what order to move? As at the lowest cost of all the resources to do everything possible for the mind

Landscape designers agree that a pattern portion is much more interesting sloping. But in reality, people are rarely happy, having obtained land with great bias. Because together with the land owners are not only dizzying possibilities to create interesting landscape, but also several problems and questions:

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Getting Started terracing? In what order to move? How would contrive and at the lowest cost of all the resources to do everything possible for the mind.

The article will answer these questions and consider the following points:

• The basic principles of terracing of slopes
• What types of terraces, there are and when to use them
• Acceptable dimensions of the terraces and the angle of inclination
• What do the retaining wall

Basic principles of soil terracing

Inconvenient site on a hillside, you can save by making terracing. This will allow to kill two birds with one stone:

• stop soil erosion;
• It allows the best possible use land area.

The steeper the slope, the longer should be a terrace.

The most correct time for terracing - the beginning of spring or autumn:

• at this time several times easier to stamp the ground;
• this time for planting and seeding the lawn.

Experts have identified the main principles of the terracing area, which must be guided during the works:

• If tend to make a terrace, it is necessary livneotvod surface.
• Before starting work, you need to consider how it will call in vehicles.
• After terracing natural natural terrain slope should not change.
• MAFy, buildings and other facilities provided on the terraces, should be included in the object in advance.

How do terracing

There are several types of terraces: everything depends on the slope of the site, and the tasks that must decide terracing. If a slope is planned vineyard or orchard, you can do the comb terraces, if the task is to strengthen the steep slope and planted trees there, fit-ditch terraces.

For areas of country houses are usually chosen stepped terracing. If the site is crude, for the diversion of water required to make a small longitudinal slope, if, on the contrary, the dry, then water is poured to hold the roller (curb).

The structure of the terrace:

• Playground (cloth);
• inner slope;
• outer slope;
• berm (untouched part of the slope between the two terraces).

On the slope of the average slope terraces make 4-5 meters wide, with a height of about 70 cm slope. But if necessary, the height of the slope can be increased up to two meters.

Most often do vertical slopes terraces, and strengthen their retaining walls. For them it is possible to use any material: brick, wood, concrete, natural stone, even the tires. The only thing: their own hands, you can only do low decorative wall to wall above the meter needs to specialists.

If a mistake in the selection of constructive solutions, material, size, shape retaining wall height of more than a meter, this may lead to the fact that the wall will collapse, and the terrace playground will slide down.

On FORUMHOUSE we talked a lot about how the device retaining walls. Acquainted with these materials can be referred to in the end.

How to carry out work on the terracing

Operation begins with the visual survey, selecting the number of terraces and projection size.

You can then proceed directly to the terracing:

• Top down slope mark pegs into portions equal to 1.5 terrace width.
• Moving across the slope, the level of search points located at the same level with the first peg. At these points arranged auxiliary pegs - horizontal line should turn.
• Go down to the next peg and find the next horizontal line, and so on.
• Begin forming terraces. When dumping sites making them not horizontal, but with a bias, reverse bias slope.
• Strengthen the retaining wall or the terrace topsoil with reinforcement.
  

How to strengthen the slope terraces without retaining grid

The steeper the slope, and accordingly, the angle of discharge between the terraces, the more serious solutions to protect it to use.

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For purely grass cover, without reinforcement, reinforcement without limiting angle of 45 degrees, no more.

To strengthen the slopes with a slope less than 60 degrees is widely used geotextiles. This material large shear strength, and it increases the load-bearing capacity of the soil. The procedure works as follows:
- Remove the soil to a depth of 20-50 cm, lay recess geotextile, bonding parts of staples on it to pour a layer of crushed stone or gravel on top again geotextiles, then ground. The slope is recommended to plant lawn grass or pochvokopokrovnikami.

Steep slopes with a gradient of 70 degrees, it is recommended to strengthen Geomat. Plant roots intertwine with its fibers - a reliable and robust system.

Before geomat laid on a slope, it is necessary to roll on the roller, and dewatering the top and bottom edge of the slope dig transheyki depth of about 30 cm and grooves for water drainage.

Geomat need to put the smooth side down, securing the top edge of the trench bolts, and tighten so that he repeated the slope profile, the folds and undulations are not allowed. The bottom edge is also fixed in the trench. Stack Geomats overlap (along the 15 cm, 20 cm across).

Used for slope stabilization and geogrid.

How to choose the form of a retaining wall

Specialists in landscape design always prefer retaining walls of complex shapes. Curves and broken lines look much better than direct, but not everyone knows that they are much stronger. Minus - to a wall requires more building materials.

A good solution may be to build a straight wall, and its strengthening pilasters (especially showy pilasters of natural stone) or stairs and ramps which lead to a terrace another.

conclusions

The plot is on a slope always looks better than even - so much so that even the experts create an artificial complex terrain. A terracing will solve many potential problems of this area and will help to use an area with the maximum benefit.

This will help in our article on how to make retaining wall made of natural stone, about the different kinds of retaining walls, how to choose the material for retaining walls. Learn how to make retaining walls - gabions. Be sure to check out our article about stone in landscape designWatch our video on how to properly make retaining walls.

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