For any cottage, garden tracks play important. It is with the help of them that can make a plot more elegant, noble and well-groomed. Of course, the troped trails are also a kind of track, but they are very unattractive. Agree, it looks much better than the yard with neat alleys or straight and even sidewalks from tiles. Thus, the tracks in the country do not only perform a functional, but also aesthetic role.

Types and ways of arrangement of tracks

To date, there are many varieties of garden tracks. They are erected in various ways and from different materials. It can be a small alley, made of square plates of concrete, or a trail from tiles for garden tracks. In any case, all country buildings are connected between themselves along the tracks and become a single harmonious composition. It is impossible for the arrangement of the tracks forget about the common style characteristic of the rest of the elements of the site. All of them must be harmonized between themselves and make a holistic ensemble.

There are many options for the arrangement of garden tracks, but they are mainly different in the material of the manufacture. Modern building materials make it possible to create quite original compositions. Consider more each of the options:

• Stone. Garden paths made of natural stone are especially valued. After all, they look strictly and respectable. Although this material itself is quite expensive, the track from it can serve for a very long time. In general, it is not always advisable to buy material specifically for this purpose. It is much cheaper to use pieces of stone that remained after the buildings of buildings.

• Wood. Today, the village of Country style is often used for the design of the country area. In particular, it is great for decoring garden tracks. No other material besides wood can transfer the unusual original warmth atmosphere. However, it is important to choose the right tree to build tracks. After all, various wood breeds differ from each other with different textured ornaments on the spell. Do not forget to consider it. In order for the wood paths from the woods last longer, it is recommended to use special protective varnishes or impregnations after laying.

• Brick. If you have a brick house on the site, it will correctly post the track from the same material. Such a designer solution allows you to bring the necessary harmony into the general atmosphere. By the way, today there is even a view of a brick for sidewalks, which has special properties for this. In particular, such material is more resistant to temperature fluctuations and moisture.

• Paving or paving slabs. Another option of materials for tracks. It allows you to take a maximum of my fantasy and creative abilities. After all, with the help of it, you can post a variety of ornaments and pictures, and thus make the track is unique. Moreover, the main fragments of the color and pattern is better to think over and prepare the appropriate scheme.

• If you are looking for an economical option, then think about using tracks from Gravel. This is a very simple way to arrange tracks. However, a lot of consumables will be needed to implement ideas. After all, gravel during operation gives shrinkage. Therefore, the layer of this material makes thick, and how they should be tamped. But this option will not be suitable if you need to make a central alley. So, the tracks with their own hands from gravel fit into the wild natural landscape. Therefore, they are recommended to erect next to the beds, flower beds and artificial reservoirs.

• Will last long enough concrete tracks. Options for laying garden concrete tracks are only two: from ready-made solid plates or special blanks. Today there are even special forms in the market, with which you can make pieces of concrete of a suitable configuration and size. As for the finished tile for tracks, it is made of any form. It happens square, triangular and asymmetric.

The main parts of the track

According to the requirements, any garden track must contain such elements in its design:

• pillow,
• drain
• coating,
• borders.

In this case, the main load on itself is usually a layer of soil. Therefore, it is necessary to approach its preparation especially carefully. First of all, the width of the track must be removed 150 mm of the upper layer of the soil. At the same time, all the roots must be cut off, soil align and not forget to make a slope for water flow. You should get a trench that will serve as a place for the base device. The bottom of this trench needs to be protected from weeds. For this purpose, geotextiles often use. As an alternative, the rubberoid is suitable.

Then you need to make the base itself. As a material, crushed stone, slag, broken brick or gravel with large sand is commonly used. When the pillow is ready, it should be poured with water and thoroughly tumble. It is allowed to make several layers. Alternatively, you can pour a seam of gravel and large sand. Each of the layers should be carefully tumped. Moreover, before laying the second reservoir, the first should be tamped.

Work on the construction of the foundation should be performed as much as possible. After all, it depends on how long the track can serve. After the construction of the base, the main material of the track is stacked. Moreover, depending on its type, the installation is carried out on the sand base or on cement and concrete. If the track is laid out of wood sawdust, then remember the need to process them with special tools from rotting. The same applies to the tracks of sleep.

Planning Stage when laying tracks

The tracks, as mentioned above, are very important for the country area. Therefore, their device is recommended to think in advance, ideally this should be done before the building will be built on the site and the necessary auxiliary facilities. Planning usually involves charting a garden path with his own hands. It can make just by hand or using a special software.

First of all, when drawing up such a plan, you need to identify important points and connect them by ways. It is desirable that the objects, including a garden, garden, greenhouse, a bath and a gazebo be indicated in the scheme. The track must bind them among themselves. Moreover, all trails must run conveniently for further movement on them. The material selected for the construction of tracks should be combined with both the country house and with its surrounding elements.

If in the area where you live are often raining, then you should provide a drainage system. In addition, in this case, along the edges of the road, plums should be pulled out to avoid water stagnation. It is important to remember that water at low temperatures can spoil the material from which the track is made. Next to the coatings should not be powerful trees due to the fact that their roots are dangerous for the integrity of the roads.

Making tracks in the garden from the decorative stone

This path is quite original for any country area. It combines the elements of wildlife and modern design. Best of all such a trail is suitable for flower beds and moves between the beds.

Tools and materials:

• To make such a track, you need a stone tile, stone borders or wooden bars and sand.
• To protect against weeds, you will need geotextiles that will fit under the soil.
• In addition, during the work, wooden rakes, gravel, shovel for the mumbling will be needed.
• In addition, a hose with sprayer, meter and construction level will be useful.

Procedure for work:

1. You should start with the definition of the required length and width of the future path. In addition, it is necessary to calculate the area and according to the results of the calculations to acquire building materials.
2. Work on the laying track begins with the fact that special sides are installed on the edges.
3. After that, it is necessary to lay geotextiles, and so that its edges under the aircraft installed before it came closely.
4. Next, the fabric needs to be covered with sand and align it with robble. The sand layer should be about 40 mm.
5. Then you should moisten the sand with water from the hose and tamper it using a special tool.
6. Now you can lay directly decorative tiles. It is done fairly easily - she just presses in the sand.
7. Between the tiles, there is usually a distance that you need to fill in pebbles or marble gravel. The track is ready. As you can see, everything is quite simple.

How to make a track: a few interesting options

It is a mistake to think that the creation of the original track requires large financial costs for the purchase of materials. If the correct approach to the case, the quality and original garden trail is quite possible to make even from inexpensive materials. Below is a look at some of these options.

cement leaves. The procedure works:

1. If you have a summer cottage there are manicured lawns, then you will not want to put him on the track, thereby violating its integrity. But it is possible to preserve it and thus to cross the turf directly. This will require a normal solution of cement and large leaves of burdock.
2. When everything is purchased, the cement is mixed and then this dough is laid out on sheets of burdock. Get a peculiar form to fill.
3. When the mixture of cement to fully grasp, burdock leaf to be removed. Obtain a decorative tile, which is the main element of the future track.
4. Next prepared a place for laying tiles. By means of a small scoop or vanes neatly piece of ground is removed, so as to obtain a pit of small depth.
5. Now tiles and other elements are laid into the prepared hole. As a result, the light path is obtained, and thus it is in harmony with lawn.

brick path. Brick is considered to be a universal material. Therefore, if it has the right amount, you should not even think of what to do track. This material has many advantages, both practical and aesthetic. In particular, it is worth noting that it is suitable for almost any style of a country house. Both red and gray bricks is very good look at the background of buildings made of the same material. They still are not bad combined with manicured lawns and other vegetation on the dacha. Bricks for the garden path, you can use either, but today there is a special paving slabs, which greatly simplifies the installation process.

The order of installation:

1. Starting operation is to define boundaries and soil removal. Next the base is prepared from sand and gravel.
2. After that the stacking of bricks, and the voids therebetween are filled with coarse sand. The width of the trench depends not only on the size of a brick, but also of the ornament, which will be laid out. The minimum width of a track is 0.8 m.
3. Be sure to define the boundaries and mark them with pegs between which stretched cord.
4. Next, the small layer of the Earth is taken out and the trench is broken, the edges of which must be reinforced by boards. These bars for a long time will be supports for the border. After 1-2 years, they will need to get it, and the available grooves fall asleep with small gravel or pebbles.
5. Now you can proceed to the manufacture of the pillow, which consists of the lower and upper layer. The lower reservoir is made from the gravel mixture, which should be evenly distributed over the surface and as it should be tamped. If not to catch up, then shrinkage in the future can cause the destruction of the track.
6. The component of the top layer is only one - sand. It should be dissolved along the track and the tumper so that the layer turns out quite dense.
7. Next, you can start laying the brick tiles along the boards. At the same time, before putting every brick, a small deepening should be burned. The correctness of the laying is adjusted by the Cyanka.
8. Bricks, which will be put on the end, perform the role of a border. Taking into account the design of the laying, the gaps between the borders of the brick tiles should be filled. At the same time, the installation is correctly checked with a level.
9. It remains quite a bit, namely, filling the gaps that were formed between bricks. For this, sand takes and neatly poured between bricks until the track surface is uniform.
10. When it is done, the track must be pouring and plundered the sand before the same level. If some shortcomings are noticed, you can only adjust the position of bricks within a few days.