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Create a pathway in your garden allowing you to twist and turn as you like, enjoying the whole of your garden space: a garden is nothing more than a walk-in area to enjoy but when the rain comes it can be transformed in no time to a mud desert. If we want a garden to enjoy all year round, that is clean and safe under foot a garden path could be the remedy. When adding a path into your garden you will be given a number of decisions including the path direction and course, path widths, choice of materials and colours, material and surface structure all factors in your planning stage.

Before you get in to the implementation of your garden path, you should take the time to tour your garden and plan the route your new pathway is going to take. Consider the differences of the four seasons thinking about how the effects of sunlight, wind, rain, snow or drought could have on the routing of your garden path. Even the topography of the land should be concerned, because hardly any gardens are perfectly flat.

Next, you should think about movement patterns. The main task of paved roads is the connection from the street to the house and in the garden, the garden linking various devices with each other and the extraction or separation of plantings and lawns. Consider how often it will be used as some materials are more long lasting then others.

Create a scale drawing of the garden, this will allow you to consider the path carefully creating the best route and implementation. In the plan include all existing buildings and facilities such as house, driveway, and flower beds but also transmit water and electricity connections. Measure exactly beforehand, this may sound like a lot of work but this is definitely easier than moving earth and paving stones later on.

Paving materials

The character of a garden is quite crucial and will influence the material used for the garden path. Every material has its special look: A near-natural garden works best with "old-fashioned" Coverings such as recycled brick or cobblestone; a modern garden is better off with the factual broadcasting of concrete surfaces. Each material has its advantages and disadvantages in terms of installation, cost, durability and weather resistance. The most common paving materials are:

Wood Bark
Tiling
Concrete blocks or panels
Decorative Gravel
Natural stone (field stone, quarry stone slabs or building stone)
Cast concrete

Basics the Garden path system

Just like floors in the house, floor surfaces must be independent of type and material level and dry outdoors. This means that you should focus his attention on preparing the ground with drainage and the preparation of a solid substructure before laying the path.

A stable and well executed base is an important beginning for any paved area, the base to the path should be sturdy and solid. It prevents the plaster crack or sag, and provides good drainage of the area. The first step in creating a solid substructure is digging a pit, which is then filled with gravel or recycled concrete and compacted. Then a layer of sand is applied as "laying bed" and can be enriched depending on the requirement of the load capacity of the surface even with lean concrete.

Quantity calculation for Support material

Support material is obtained in the building materials or construction material trading. Most is sold cubic meters or tons. The dealer can assist with the quantity calculation. A good route plan with exact dimensions is now worth money, because (convert layer thickness in meters!) Based on the length and width and multiplied together, and then the result with the layer height of the building materials takes each time, we obtain the required quantity in cubic meters

Example:

In a 4 x 4 meters large terrace, which is to be provided with a gravel layer of 8 inches are expected:

Area of 4 x 4 = 16 square meters x 0.08 meters thickness = 1.28 cubic meters of split quantity

This result has been included in the rule to 10% more loose material. Thus, the compression and setting any of the material is taken into account. Are the final quantities for substructure and decking calculated, it is important to discuss cost and delivery. The delivery by the dealer is often carried out only up to the curb so you need to consider how this is going to be placed in your garden.

Here at approved trader we have landscape gardeners located all over the UK who are experts at the design and completion of garden paths enquire online and speak to a professional gardener and get path ideas and low cost quotes.