Garden paths made of wood with their own hands

06-06-2018

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In order to decorate the garden plot in an original way, you can independently make paths from tree cuts. The manufacture of such tracks will significantly change the appearance of the site, and in view of the fact that the material itself can be purchased for little money or not at all, significant savings can be made. This article will talk about how to make garden paths out of wood with your own hands.

First of all, you need to think about for what purpose you will need a path, for example, for walking or treating the beds. If there is a desire to create an eco style at the dacha, then the use of this natural material would be an ideal option.

Advantages and disadvantages

This article will help to see the advantages and disadvantages of this design option garden. We will also consider the instruction explaining how step by step you can pave paths from wood cuts.

Wood tracks have certain advantages:

environmentally friendly material;
exclusive view due to the uniqueness of the picture;
individuality of each track;
low cost and ease of manufacture;
material and tools can be found right in the country.

It is also necessary to mention the shortcomings of this material:

fragility? major drawback;
susceptibility to rotting and deterioration by insects;
fire hazard due to prolonged exposure to open flame.

In fact, there are fewer disadvantages than advantages, and therefore you can safely get down to business.

Cut the workpiece

The saw cuts can be of two forms: semicircular and round with a size of 0.3? 1 m, height about 10 cm.

There are several ways to pave wooden paths. The shape of the track can be arbitrary - in this version it will look much more beautiful and attractive.

In addition to the tracks, from the cuts you can build a decorative ladder or bridge.

Paths of wood cuts

First you need to prepare the tools for the job. In this case, you will need a chainsaw (or electric saw). Logs for sawing need to be dried well beforehand, otherwise (if laid in the raw state) they can crack and deform. If the material dries when buried in the ground, the view of such a track will be unattractive and will have to be redone.

On how carefully the material is treated with an antiseptic, the service life of the structure, whether it be garden paths, bridges or ladders, depends. Typically, processing is done with linseed oil, a solution of copper sulfate or used machine oil.

After processing, the material should dry well. Then it is necessary to treat the product with a layer of waterproofing from melted bitumen. Bitumen should be applied to the lowest part of the cut, which will be immersed in the ground. There is another option for waterproofing - immerse the bottom of the saw cut into a container with molten bitumen and gasoline added to it. After this procedure, you need to give the wooden products to dry well.

In the markets sold ready-made impregnation containing protective substances? This method will be more reliable.

Laying garden paths

In order to lay the cuts beautifully, it is necessary to mark the territory with the help of pegs, which need to be hammered along the entire perimeter of the future path, then the cord is taken and stretched between the pegs.

When the path is winding, markup is performed with sand.

After preparing the markings, a trench is dug up to a depth of approximately 30 cm, in which a drainage system is set up, designed to protect the saw cuts from moisture. For this, rubble is laid on the bottom of the trench and rammed. Above you need to put geotextiles and make sanding. Each of the layers is poured with water and tamped with quality. The thickness of the resulting layer should not exceed 10 cm.

Now you can begin to lay the cuts, placing them closer to each other and selecting the diameter of the workpieces. To fill the seams between the saws, use crushed stone, sand or pebbles. Often, for beauty, the space between the paths is sown with lawn grass.

Along the edges of the walkway, you can decorate using higher cuts, decorative stones, or using high-quality soil. Flowers will surely be a beautiful decoration of the garden path.

Irregularities in the garden plot can be hidden by means of a garden path made in the form of steps, especially if there is a slope on the plot.

It should be remembered that every year you need to make a primer garden path to protect the tree from rotting, which will increase the life of the track.

Board tracks

Alternatively, as a material for garden paths, you can use wooden planks. Most often, this track has the appearance of solid flooring. Plates are stacked both in the transverse and in the longitudinal direction. To make the path winding, the edges of the boards are specially trimmed or stacked in a special way.

By applying this approach, it is possible to model various variants, for example, a pattern similar to parquet.

And if the boards are located at some distance from each other and the space between them is filled with dumping or gravel, the construction will resemble a railway.

You can run the garden path from the boards, laid out a solid flooring. This track is made slightly raised by about 10 cm. Does it have a big advantage? there is no contact of the tree with the soil, and the air space allows the tree to dry quickly after rain, which significantly contributes to the long use of the garden path.

To independently create a garden path from the elements of the tree, you need to spend a lot of time and effort, but you can get a real masterpiece. This path will be a beautiful and extraordinary addition to the garden decoration.

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