Each summer cottage should be tracks. It can be both the running paths of paths and solid paths from wooden sleeps that will serve not only with decoration, but also a weighty functional component. Otherwise, how can you move around the plot, jumping from beds to bed? Today our task is to find out how to make a walk from sleep with your own hands.

Walkway Walkways: Pros and Cons

If everything is thought out on the dacha or in the garden to the smallest details, the country's work is greatly alleviated. For example, when you need to collect a harvest (without flooding neighboring plants) or set something, how can you move around the site, if there are no tracks? You can make them from any materials, the main thing is to take into account, from which material the house and other buildings are built, what style of your homestead. Based on this, you can choose materials.

Pluses made of wooden sleeps:

• ecological clean material;
• constructed trees (for example, when cleaning the plot), large branches, wood billets for the heating season - the material is inexpensive and affordable;
• from different breeds of a tree can turn out the original track. The other is already impossible to do, because each tree has its own, unique drawing;
• ease and simplicity of laying track - no need to purchase a special inventory and invite specialists. With work on laying spell tracks easily cope with independently;
• care for tracks is minimized;
• after heavy rains on such tracks, an excess fluid does not accumulate, so without fear of puddles, you can go to the garden to collect a harvest.

There are disadvantages of such environmentally friendly and original tracks: this is a short life. The tree is a natural material, so after a few years the tracks will have to be restored. The tree is easily flammorated, and after the rain you need to move very carefully and carefully, as such a walkway is very slippery. Well, to minimize this disadvantage, it is necessary to treat the surface with coarse sandpaper.

Walkways from sleep. Photo

Garden track from sleep. What to prepare for work

Even despite the fact that work on the laying of tracks on the site is considered simple, all the same, alone will be difficult. What else you need to know to get to work. First, prepare the material. The tracks can be made both from the usual low hemp and out of the dies, churbans, and is also lined or from the ends of the logs.

After purchasing materials, prepare the following:

• tree - for example, a spear;
• building level;
• olif and tassel;
• hammer for working with wood (Cyanok);
• shovel and bucket;
• gravel and pebbles, as well as sand;
• water;
• waterproofing material in rolls.

After preparing all the necessary, you can proceed to the first step - it is also called preparatory, because you must first prepare a tree, think about what your walkway will be - its length, width, bending. What materials are suitable for the implementation of this idea.

It is better not to regret the means and acquire a solid tree. For example, Pine will last about 7 years, oak - within 10, and larch - about 25 years! We draw conclusions and maybe this option will be unacceptable. And it is not scary, use the tree that you have in stock or what is suitable.

Regarding the price of a speech for tracks: the cheapest - birch sleeves, from 700 rubles per 100 square meters, and the most expensive - spears from larch, about 3690 rubles for the same amount.

Of course, you will have to update individual items after a while, and it is possible to fully make a new track, after 3-5 years of operation. And this is not scary, because you have already enough experiences and the next time you will probably think over everything to the smallest details.

What else can you not miss? These are the size of each workpiece. The height of the height should not exceed 20 cm, but also a walkway out of sleep, 10 cm height is also not suitable, because the blanks will simply be held in the ground. With the slightest load, they will fall out of the row.

Try to pick up the sleeves, the same in width, and the height will have to be customized independently. When the work is completed, it remains only to remove the bark from each workpiece. It is not needed, because it does not firmly adjacent to the wood, and insects are easily growing in it and it quickly rotates.

And it is also necessary to inspect each workpiece so that the logs are whole and without cracks. If there is at least one poor-quality, then the whole design may be disturbed. But this is so much Labor!

Treatment of wooden sleeps for tracks

So that the garden tracks last longer, careful preparation of wood with oil.

There is nothing complicated, do the following in the desired sequence:

1. Take the Olifu, it must be heated, but do not bring to a boil. As soon as it starts to boil - remove the container from the plate.
2. Wood from all sides must be treated with hot oil. Thus, the speakes will be protected from pests and moisture.
3. Leave the blanks to complete drying in the place protected from moisture.
4. Then treat the part that will be in the ground, bitumen. This will help protect the tree from rotting. Such paths will serve longer. This item can be skipped, but it is better to perform.
5. And finally, one more important advice: if you want the track to seek the old, it is necessary to form a blank from a tree like this: Treat each spoke with a solution of copper mood - after processing the tree color will change a bit. In this case, it is easy to achieve an ideal shade of all billets. The result - the track will look in the country area harmonious.
6. All processed hemps must be dried and then proceed to the next step.

We make markup on the site under the track from Speil

Ideally - draw on a sheet of paper a plan, note the place where the tracks will be, taking into account the bend, the length and width of each of them. If it is difficult, start with simple - perform standard markup. Surely you decided how much you want to make tracks on the site. For example, if there are one track in the plans, then you need to weigh everything carefully - so that you can easily move around the site without obstacles. At the same distance should be all the buildings (house, shed, bath, toilet, etc.).

As for the width. Standard width of the track for the garden or cottage - 35 cm so that one person can walk freely on the track. But if there is enough space, expand this figure by 15 cm, it turns out as much as 50 cm and more space for walking.

Everything is thought out, the route is laid in advance, it's time to go to practice. In order to mark the markup, small wooden pegs will be useful. They need to be installed at the beginning of the track, with a step of 30 cm, as well as at the end. Do not be lazy and lean the pegs to the ground in order to stretch the rope or a durable rope between them. If the track is not direct, there are bends, then pegs should be drunk on each turn, so that it is easier to navigate and do everything according to the idea.

How to prepare the basis for spelling tracks

Materials are available, the markup is ready, it's time to train the site for placing wooden bars. It should be the same as the markup or dimensions of the future track (length, as well as width).

What to take into account:

1. The length and width of the track - the site should be neither more (except for 5-10 cm when laying onboard), nor less.
2. The depth of markup should be the same as the length of wooden blanks +20 cm.

This is enough enough to make it all and the track has kept the desired load without offset of individual elements.

Armed with a shovel, forks and rakes, it is necessary to prepare a trench, and then the order of work will be like this:

• we make waterproofing, making waterproofing material along the bottom of the prepared foundation (you can a dense polyethylene film for the construction of greenhouses);
• the film is preferably laid with a small margin, and on top to lay fine crushed stone or gravel;
• carefully distribute drainage and pour the sand layer;
• it remains only to take advantage of the construction level so that the surface is perfectly smooth.

At this stage of the formation of garden tracks from the spikes of a tree, you need to install protective sides. It is optional, it all depends on your idea and the selected material.

For the curb fit: bricks and small stones, wooden thin bars, lamps, plastic or leaf iron. The choice of material is at your discretion, just note that the sides will be in sight, so the track look harmoniously, it is desirable to give preference to natural material.

We decided with the side, now you need to put another layer of "pillows" - in this case it will be sand, and with the help of this natural material it is necessary to add a little height (only 10 cm). Sand plug in consistently to compact - periodically moisturize it with water.

How to make a spell track

Preparatory stages behind, it's time to proceed to the most interesting and fascinating lesson. But in order to do everything correctly, you need to decide on the way of laying wooden bars. The patterns there are many, because depending on the width and height of the elements, you can post the desired pattern.

Methods of laying: tightly to each other, or at a short distance. The gaps can be saved both, and fill in small gravel.

The laying order is so simple that it does not require a detailed description: it is necessary to choose one wooden sleeper, put it on the prepared base, deepen, putting some effort, and then knock on a special rubber hammer.

And most importantly - after some distance, do not forget to check your work. Take advantage of the construction level. To align all the elements. The track must be perfectly smooth in terms of level, but not visually.

How to care for the path in the dacha of the spikes of a tree

It is not enough only to perform work on laying wooden sleeps to get a neat tracks. It is important to care for them. In the first year, it is desirable to fill the empty space between the sleeves. As a filler is suitable as small gravel or crushed stone and sand. An interesting solution is to give nature to fill emptiness yourself. The next year, a juicy green grass will rise between the sleeves. By the way, not to give the will to weeds, as well as to speed up this process, prepare the fertile soil, add to it seeds of lawn grass, fill the emptiness. Plants will quickly fill the space and such a track will look more original.

The tree can be left as it is, artificially formate or paint hemp into bright colors. It will be unusual and the children will probably like this option.

How to care for tracks:

• at least once a year, it is necessary to allocate a preventive day in order for a metal scraper (or sandpaper) to clean the tree;
• do not forget to cover the carpets with olifa, a special protective coating for a tree or paint paint;
• carefully inspect everyone speaking. If cracks noticed, the tree begins to rot, replace the damaged elements.

Tip: At the initial stage, when preparing materials for laying, set aside a dozen-other sleeps in the barn. They will come to you, just for such a replacement.