There’s still a lot to improve in the garden. That is why we have prepared for you instructions how to strengthen the slope, build a palisade or border the lawn. We will also advise you on how to know the assortment of garden building materials.

We will not avoid them when changing the layout of the garden, but we are also waiting for us to build pavements or terraces. For the proper landscape design these are important.

Landscaping in the garden is done for various reasons. The most important thing can be the very foundation of the garden and the related changes in the land profile, slope adjustments and other radical interventions. More often, however, you may encounter the need for landscaping, for example, to pave the pavement, build stairs or transform a steeper slope into more easily maintained terraces. In the process of landscape design this is a very important matter.

Even a small adjustment is a big intervention in the garden, because it is necessary to take into account the weighing or weighing of the soil, moving sand, paving or stones and sometimes even moving the heavy machinery. All this is a burden for the garden. That’s why it pays to think about everything, count and plan in advance.

Smother and upset

For example, if you decide to pave a sidewalk or a place to sit, it is first necessary to build a foundation. It is usually made of several layers of gravel or sand, or of recycled debris, which can be purchased in landfills. The base material is then a sloping plane with at least a 2% slope.

If the tiles are connected to any wall or wall, they should meet it below the level of horizontal waterproofing so that moisture from the tiles does not damage the wall. Separate the paving and its base bed from the walls with a nappy foil.

The thickness of the base layer depends on whether the pavement is only mined by walking, or the car will be driven after it. Drainage must be ensured from the clay soils, in the case of sandy soil the substrate should be strong enough to prevent the tiles from falling. We can do this by ramming, with the help of a vibration plate or a tool rental cylinder. A trench for pedestrian pavement is sufficient to a depth of ten centimeters, for a more demanding load and several layers of substrate, including a drainage layer, requires about thirty centimeters of depth.

If we want to build steps and walls in the paved area, concreting is not usually avoided. We use dry concrete and it will be necessary to dig the ground up to a non-freezing depth of 60 to 80 centimeters.

Plan with care

Larger landscaping can radically change the terrain modulation and thus the look, purpose and atmosphere of the entire garden. You can work with excavation soil, obtained for example when building a garden pond, you can turn the sloping land into terraces and modulate the profile of the garden with the help of clay obtained just when comparing the slopes.

It is a good idea to plan these works carefully, if they are of a larger scale, rather to outsource them to a specialized horticultural firm. She will take care of the right order of work. For example, a lawn is not established until the new areas or landscaping is no longer affected. However, if the filler layer is more than fifty centimeters in length, count on it to sit – and with the next build, you need to wait patiently for several months.