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  • Landscaping Projects: Build A Patio

    Posted on January 23rd, 2010 admin 3 comments

    Adding a patio area to your garden is a great way to build an entertaining area for your friends and family. There are many kinds of materials to chose from so you can find the perfect style to suit your home.

    A Design Scheme For Your Patio
    If you want to refresh the look of your outdoor space you could re-do your patio on a yearly basis. The main thing about patio, whether starting from scratch or freshening up an old design, is to ensure that the surface is set to perfection, whether it is a new slab of concrete, patio tiles or decking: this is the main element to consider for a result that you can enjoy with your friends and family.

    Choosing The Materials
    There are many materials suitable to lay a patio with. It really depends on what you like and what you need, so long as the material you pick is hard. Whether you pick bricks or tiles, concrete or stones or even wood, the choice is your: any of these would work well a durable and beautiful base for your new design.

    Where To Start
    Before you lay down any materials you need to level the ground and build the patio structure, adding height to the outer borders if necessary. This will be the main support of your patio. The outer perimeter of the frame should be smooth, free of nails that may stick the sides and don’t forget to check that frame is level with the door to the house.

    Once the structure is in place you can add interesting features like curved boards to add movement and a bit of imagination to your design. These bender boards are usually made of plastic and can be laid down quite easily providing you remember to support it with stakes at close intervals to maintain the shape.

    Laying The Main Material
    Before you start laying your choice of material you should to do it as per the manufacturer’s instruction and give yourself plenty of time to achieve a professional finish. Whatever material you’ve picked the only creative limitation is your imagination: have some fun with the design but double check the material is laid securely.

    Adding A Homely Touch
    You can finish off the look of your new patio by adding a touch of greenery. You can do so by planting a green border around the patio, which will frame your new creation beautifully by adding a splash of color. The result will be all the more inviting and relaxing. If you do not want to go to that extent you can still use plants and flower to add some warmth to your new entertaining area with potted plants. A few carefully selected plant pots will add the vibrant colors and natural beauty of plants to your design yet are easy to look after. This is also a very flexible solution as you can move the pots around the patio to suit your needs.

    The overall result should be a brand new outdoor entertaining space that you can share and enjoy with your friends and family.

    Mr.Andrew Caxton
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    • I am wanting to learn how to lay landscaping brick as an edging in a landscaping bed.?
      I am interested to learn how to lay concrete brick as an edging in a landscaping bed. I have checked
      on the internet for some websites but am always directed to large scale projects such as building patios and walkways. I know this cannot be difficult to do as long as everything is level and I believe that limestone should be used also? This project will be going around the patio area. Thanks for whatever information you can give me.

    • It all depends on how much time and money you want to spend as well as how durable you want it to be. There are several ways to do it.

      If you want to line them up on their ends like soldiers, you should dig a small trench with the front of the trench being vertical and the back at an angle. Then just place the bricks in line next to each other and make them level. If you are really concerned that they all be level, you can run a string between stakes and use a line level that hangs on the string.

      There are several variations on this style, you can place them side by side with the wide dimension facing out or with the narrow dimension facing out. You can also lay them at an angle for a sort of herring bone effect.

      You can also dig a narrow trench the width of a brick and place them lying down end to end. Again, you can put the wide dimension up or the narrow dimension up, whichever you prefer.

      A more durable installation, but probably overkill is to place some sand or pea gravel under the bricks.

      Good Luck and Happy Gardening!

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    • We just dig a trench a little larger than the bricks, in the location that we want them and line the bottom of the trench with paver base (we buy this in bags at Lowe’s), then set the bricks on top of the base, leveling the stones to the one next to it. (we use granite strips, but with bricks it would be the same procedure). Then backfill around the bricks with topsoil.

      hope this helps.
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