How to make a garden path that is affordable and accessible to everyone. Practical instructions for making a path in the yard or outside your home on your own.
The outdoor space can be profoundly transformed by introducing a path made of stone (gravel) or new materials such as stone slabs, modular platforms, trunk sections, stones… These are economical solutions because they can be created with DIY.
How to Remove Old Concrete from Your Driveway
A concrete driveway is not always the best choice. Sure, concrete is cheap and easy to maintain, but if it is not looked after aesthetically, it risks making your yard look ugly.
If you have a damaged concrete path, you can replace it with natural materials that enhance the vegetation and, at the same time, provide stability to the passage. Well, then how to remove concrete from the garden floor?
You need a demolition hammer (it is called a motopicco and can be rented at most specialized hardware stores) and a lot of manpower. Alternatively, you will have to use a pickaxe but if the avenue in question is large, this procedure is not recommended.
When removing concrete from the floor, the resulting material must be immediately removed so as to make the effort more organized. Proceed one piece at a time and, little by little, collect the concrete that you have managed to remove.
To finish the removal of the concrete floor , work on any underlying roots: you will have to sacrifice the most frayed and bulky ones so as to have a more or less level surface. Any sinkholes can be brought to a level with thin inert materials (sand, fine gravel, etc.).
Once the old concrete has been removed , you can make a garden path with tiles, gravel or sections of wooden logs.
Stone garden path
The most common and easy to make garden path is the gravel path. Gravel is undoubtedly the most economical solution for preparing a garden path .
For this DIY driveway you will need: gravel, gravel, two sheets of non-woven fabric and, if the driveway is near trees, also a root barrier felt. To know how much gravel you need and how to proceed, I refer you to the guide: how to make a gravel driveway .
Garden path with beams and modular platforms
Modular platforms are very easy to handle. Beams and platforms create well-aligned support surfaces.
Before proceeding with the laying of the beams it is important to create a compact base. How to do it?
- Level your future garden path well , if there are holes level it with soil to fill the gap.
- Cover the surface to be used as a driveway with a layer of sand. The sand is not used to level but to better settle the base on the support point of the slabs or strips that you will lay.
- Assemble the floor to create a continuous walkway.
These instructions are valid for both modular decking and other outdoor flooring such as wooden planks, modular plastic planks or interlocking outdoor flooring.
Wooden garden path
If you are a total do-it-yourselfer, you can prepare a garden path with sections of a wooden log. In this case, the path of the house will not be uniform and there will be interstitial spaces where the grass can grow. The aesthetic effect is more or less like the one in the photo above. In the interstices, the grass can be sown or transplanted… You can also decide to let it grow spontaneously but for a better aesthetic effect it is advisable to choose species intended for the lawn that are resistant to trampling.
