Glad to see the site is back. Nearly despaired when I thought it was lost !!! (Don't ever give it up Tony)
Just wanted a little advice on laying a mowing strip.
I am laying a course of bricks (Old Mill by Marshalls) as a divide or mowing strip between the lawn and a gravel path. The lawn will be level with the bricks and the path will be lower on the other side (To keep low enough from DPC).
I've laid them on a dry mix of 6-3-1 (Aggregate/sharp sand cement) and am joining them with a 3-1 (b/sand-cement) mix. I was also going to haunch them to stop the lawn from pushing the bricks into the path. Have I gone about this the right way or is it all wrong as it seems to be taking forever even taking into account my extremely limited brick laying skills.
Lastly what is the best method of cutting the bricks as I was going to lay a couple of 1m arcs. The bricks are just like standard building bricks but with three holes running through them so I wasn't sure if I could cut them part way and then hit them with a bolster as I fear they would crack through one of the holes I've attached a picture courtesy of Marshalls to show the sort of arrangement I'm talking about (Like the top row of bricks at the front of the patio that dissapear into the grass). Sorry for the long winded post and thanks in advance for the help.
on a radius as big as that you wouldn't need to cut the bricks just fan the joints to thinner at the back than the front.
if you want a tighter radius like these steps
then we use a cut off saw (with water suppression) to cut the back corner off, they tend to break if you just nick them and try and split them with bolster.
the ones in the steps are blue engineers so they were quiet hard bricks.
giles
Giles
Groundworks and Equestrian specialists, prestige new builds and sports pitches. High Peak, Cheshire, South Yorkshire area.
Thanks Giles,
I might just put square corners in as by rough calculation I reckon I need to cut 20 bricks for each 90 degree (800mm inside rad) curve removing a strip 16mm-0 across the long face of the brick or put up with a mortar joint tapering from 10-26mm. The only thing I have is an angle grinder and it could take quite a while! ???
Anyone think there's anything wrong with the rest of my "cunning plan"?
