Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:05 am
We are planning a building new garden path because we don't like the old one and we want to move it.
We have decided on Bradstone "Carpet Stones" in rustic red as this looks like it will give a rustic appearance (by this I think the gf means, not like an office car park). Also, the path is not going to be straight, in fact it will meander around a silver birch tree so I will be cutting diagonals off the carpet mats to make up the turns.
A few questions:
Q1) The old path was done in Cotswold gravel over a 5cm compacted sharp sand base. Can I use this material as part of the new base, in place of or in addition to fresh hardcore?
The plan is to use an 80cm wide (thats two strips of carpet stones) path on a 100cm wide hardcore sub-base, using 7cm of bedding mortar (1:3:6 semi-dry mix). I was going to use the pointing mortar (1:3 mix) to haunch the sides of the path.
I do not want to use any kind of visible edging to the path as this will spoil the effect a little bit, and also be difficult to plan and construct (because of the curving nature of the path).
Q2) Will the edge stones be held in place strongly enough using this method?
We have decided on Bradstone "Carpet Stones" in rustic red as this looks like it will give a rustic appearance (by this I think the gf means, not like an office car park). Also, the path is not going to be straight, in fact it will meander around a silver birch tree so I will be cutting diagonals off the carpet mats to make up the turns.
A few questions:
Q1) The old path was done in Cotswold gravel over a 5cm compacted sharp sand base. Can I use this material as part of the new base, in place of or in addition to fresh hardcore?
The plan is to use an 80cm wide (thats two strips of carpet stones) path on a 100cm wide hardcore sub-base, using 7cm of bedding mortar (1:3:6 semi-dry mix). I was going to use the pointing mortar (1:3 mix) to haunch the sides of the path.
I do not want to use any kind of visible edging to the path as this will spoil the effect a little bit, and also be difficult to plan and construct (because of the curving nature of the path).
Q2) Will the edge stones be held in place strongly enough using this method?
