Building your own home is the dream of many. Tall, warm, with a beautiful roof, spacious rooms, a cozy kitchen and living room. The picture is always drawn the brightest. But a house without a personal plot is unfinished
dream. And the landscape is always present in it. Well, if you can use the services of a designer. Then professionally trained people will smash the site. They will design all the beauty: paths, terraces,
flower beds, fruit trees. It is more difficult when landscaping has to be done independently. For such a thing, certain knowledge is necessary. You can more or less deal with plants. In the end, one did not grow - in its place it is quite possible to plant another. But building materials must be selected carefully, since replacing an unsuitable composite for a terrace or
stone for a track often becomes problematic.
Sand and gravel are often used in landscape design. It is mainly used in road construction. But certain types have found their application in the improvement of personal plots. Separate sand and gravel mixtures
enriched and natural. The latter are used in road construction. This is the basis for drainage layers, the base for coatings. If an additional amount of gravel is added to the ASG, then an enriched
sand-gravel mixture is obtained at the output
. The characteristics of such a building material, of course, differ from the natural coating. It is evaluated by the following parameters:
- the ratio of gravel and sand;
- fraction of gravel contained in the mixture;
- frost resistance;
- the content of impurities - clay, silt, etc .;
Of course, the cost of sand
gravel mix. But not only this fact can affect the price. The enriched sand-gravel mixture varies in the amount of gravel contained in it. Its size, percentage with sand stipulates GOST. What can not be said about the natural mixture. Its quality is not stipulated by any norms. Accordingly, such a sand and gravel mixture is cheaper.
So why do you need drainage on the plot? To begin with, the soil in most of European Russia is often subject to flooding due to geological and relief features. This has a very negative effect on the growth and development of plants. Air has limited access to their roots, which can ultimately lead to rot. Also, excess moisture is the cause of quick and deep freezing. Another aspect should be considered for small plants: their development and growth of increased soil moisture acts simply destructive. As you might have guessed, to eliminate harmful factors and apply a sand-gravel mixture, the characteristics of which allow it to be used as drainage. To be more precise, ASG is the main building material for ditch systems and drainage systems.
But this is not the only application of ASG on the plot. It is often demanded as a pillow when laying paving slabs. The presence of gravel in the building material again helps to remove moisture faster, which will extend the life of the tracks. If the size of the site allows, then the sand and gravel mixture can be filled up with volleyball, tennis or basketball courts. In this case, the ASG should contain gravel of the smallest fractions. As you can see, this building material is quite in demand in the improvement and landscape design of a country house site.