For the design of the site of great importance is the availability of tracks. They serve as an excellent decoration of the courtyard, with their help you can divide it into functional zones, and moving along clean and well-groomed paths is a pleasure.
Before laying
paving slabs, it is necessary to perform some preparatory work. At the first stage, it is necessary to mark the places where the tracks will run. To do this, during the laying of the tiles, wooden pegs are driven in, a cord is stretched between them to indicate the boundaries of future tracks. Next, it is necessary to remove the soil from the intended areas (15-20 cm), and this process directly depends on how you laid the paving tiles with your own hands. If these are
garden paths, the soil is removed so as to tilt them away from the house to create the necessary slope for the flow of water. Places of tile laying must be leveled, then proceed to the paving process. How to lay the paving slabs with your own hands depends on the purpose of the tracks and the load that they will bear.
Pedestrian paths are usually laid on a sand cushion, the thickness of which should be from 10 to 15 cm. The sand laid in the prepared trench is leveled, then spilled abundantly with water and rammed. At the edges of the trench, curbs are installed on the
cement mortar , the seams between which are filled with mortar. According to the figure outlined in advance, the tile is laid out, between which 2-3 mm gaps are left. The surface is leveled with a rubber mallet and spilled with water to remove excess sand. If the load is supposed to be more solid, then the tile is laid on the base of crushed stone with a dry sand-cement mixture. Crushed stone is covered with a layer of 15 cm, leveled and rammed. Borders are installed on a liquid solution, and a sand-cement mixture is poured on top of the gravel, the thickness of which should be at least 5 cm. The laid tile is also leveled and spilled with water.
How to lay paving tiles with your own hands at a higher load? It is laid on a cement-sand screed on a concrete base. When laying concrete, it is necessary to remember about
temperature seams. Borders are installed on the grout, which also seams between the laid tiles.
There are many options for how to lay paving slabs with your own hands: wicker, Christmas tree, circle. You can do this in a chaotic way. In addition, the styling pattern can be determined by one's own imagination. In addition to a variety of forms, paving slabs are characterized by an abundance of sizes and shades.
We have determined how to lay the paving slabs with our own hands, but you need to know that it requires care. It must be washed, cleaned, but at the same time it must not be treated with chemicals and stained. Paving slabs have a number of advantages. First of all - environmental friendliness, as it does not contain harmful components. The surface of the tracks always remains dry, and when repairing the coating, individual tiles are easy to replace. Such tiles can be used repeatedly, and, of course, it looks more aesthetically pleasing than such coatings as asphalt or concrete.