CONCRETE PATTERNS ON THE TRACKS

Beautiful and elegant look of Park paths, lined with small plates. Why not adopt a similar method of covering tracks in the garden area? Because concrete is more durable and clearly benefit from the aesthetic point of view.

Most often gardeners when landscaping stops seeming complexity of manufacturing concrete slabs. However, if a person could build a house, it really to master the casting of concrete blocks can even more. Moreover, the materials this requires the best available: cement, sand, gravel, water and a bit of plywood.

First of all it is necessary to make the formwork because it is cast each tile. The formwork is assembled from four side walls subtended on the perimeter cord, and bottom. The box sidewalls are placed on a plywood bottom and fix with small nails. Further, setting the box on the horizontal plane, cover the entire inner surface of the thick automotive grease. You can then pour the concrete mixture. It is prepared immediately before use, so it is not seized. Tiles suitable for concrete of the same brand for Foundation — M100, M150. M150 has the following composition: volume of water — 20%; concrete — 10%; the volume of aggregate (gravel, sand) — 70%, and sand 40% gravel and 60%.

Fig. 1. Formwork:

1 — side, 2 — tightening cord, 3 — lock, 4 — a plywood bottom, 5 — notched protrusions.

Fig. 2. Scheme of filling the formwork:

1 — form, 2 — a concrete solution.

After pouring the concrete into the formwork (40-45 mm) it must be carefully compacted to avoid shells (air bubbles). The formwork can be removed after three or four days after setting the mixture and to complete the curing of the product is aged for months.

Fig. 3. The production versions of tiles with relief surface (And using plastic film and gravel, B — with rubber pad — receiving mosaic coating of the natural stone):

1 — concrete, 2 — mould, 3 — polyethylene film, 4 — gravel, 5 — rubber Mat, 6 — natural stone.

Fig. 4. Scheme tile:

1 — clay, 2 — gravel, 3 — sand, 4 — tile.