Am looking for advice to complete a D.I.Y hard landsacping project. I have completed all the deckwork, brick planters and Patio. All I now have left is what was originally the lawn area measuring roughly 4m by 6m. I have already used a fair amount of Pink Gravel and cobbles and am wary of having a yet further large area of the same without having some features to break it up for the eye. I have in mind in Mind a 10' by 10' stone square and perhaps a 6' stone circle layed into a curved edge that butts upto a curved pathway.
To add further interest I am thinking of Clay Brick Paver 'edge' either Dutch pattern or basket weave set out to intersect both the width and length of this area and then fill in what remains with different gravel or slate. In effect I would be left with 4 roughly even sized rectangles with the Stone square set at the intersection of these 2 lines of pavers. Existing walling will retain the gravel at the edges although dependant on cost and time I may also edge upto the walling with the pavers aswell.
Question is what would be the best way to go about setting the bed as clearly I havnt the room for a whacker plate, Does my bed need to constructed from concrete or is there a better way of going about this?
Great site by the way, if only I had found it when I started out on this project.....
Clay paver predicament
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The bed for what? The clay pavers?The edgings? The gravel(s)?
I'm having difficulty following your description - you start off with a metric 4x6m rectangle, and then there's an imperial 10 ft square of stone, that's followed by an 'edge' of clay pavers, laid in either Dutch Lap or Bastweave....I'm lost!
If, as I tend to think, these lines of clay pavers are only a single brick width, I'm not sure how you're going to acheive a basketweave or dutch lap, but that's by the by - when it comes to laying them, they will need to be laid as would any other edge course, on a concrete bed and haunch, as described an illustrated on the Laying Edge Courses page.
I'm having difficulty following your description - you start off with a metric 4x6m rectangle, and then there's an imperial 10 ft square of stone, that's followed by an 'edge' of clay pavers, laid in either Dutch Lap or Bastweave....I'm lost!
If, as I tend to think, these lines of clay pavers are only a single brick width, I'm not sure how you're going to acheive a basketweave or dutch lap, but that's by the by - when it comes to laying them, they will need to be laid as would any other edge course, on a concrete bed and haunch, as described an illustrated on the Laying Edge Courses page.