What does a plastic border look like?
You may have seen( or maybe bought) plastic for interior decoration of premises, which is sold in six-meter strips and is transported, as a rule, being rolled up. Approximately the plastic border will also look, however, it differs quite formably in form( form-factor corner).However, there are several varieties, and taking one as an example would be wrong.
Therefore, we simply note that this border, which is a strip of recycled recycled polyethylene, always has a base, dentate, wavy or straight, which must be hidden under the ground or fixed on it with special fixing rods.
At the top of the curb can pass a tube that is integral with the working plane and serves as a stopper, to which you should fill the soil with a curb-shaped space. Sometimes the top edge is given to decorative forms, and then the border of the flower bed becomes an adornment of the garden itself.
But more often it's just an even strip, which can both form a flower bed and even out the edges of the garden path.
Plastic border and its main characteristics
The first and the main thing that one can be proud of who invented the plastic border is the simplicity of installing this type of fencing. Of course, the fence is almost symbolic, but the tasks assigned to it perform unshakably, and there is no need to dig trenches for it and fill the foundation.
It is enough to determine the lines along which the border of the flower bed or track will pass, set the edge of the strip at its starting point and fix it by driving the first rod deep into the ground - and the design of the site can be considered started.
The second characteristic that provides the polymeric curb with popularity is its cost, which is much lower than even for concrete bordering of flower beds. Well, since we mentioned concrete, its mass does not go in comparison with the weight of the plastic strip, which provides the latter with a considerable advantage in transportation and installation.
If concrete can be sooner or later split with moisture and plant roots, plastic does not threaten it. Of course, it will eventually become unusable, but will last much longer than concrete products. And, finally, it should be taken into account the fact that the does not budge or shrink when shrinking or shearing the curb of the plastic decorative border, it will be securely held by the deep-seated locks of the .
How to use the borders of plastic in the design of the garden
So, you decided to use the borders of plastic to form a flower bed or a path. Well, it remains only to find out what kind of soil is at the selected place. Let's say it's rocky, and that's why you decided to lay an extra fertile layer on top.
Then you should complete the curb to purchase steel rods, whereas for soft soils, special plastic nails can be used. Some types of fences considered, for example, a border of plastic "country", do not require the use of fixatives at all, it is enough to pour the soil around them.
If a fixed curb is not poured at the base of the soil, you can rip off the pins of the pins with strips of turf.
To use the rods, the soil must be carefully leveled and, preferably, packed. Take the alcohol level and reconcile all the lines along which the border of our flower bed or path will pass. Now pull the wire or line along the line of our future fence so that the marked level coincides with the lower level of the neighboring surface, for example, the tiled path started.
We drive the pins on the bends every 20 centimeters, and we use the same length of the curb along the entire length of the curb if the track is subjected to ramming. Otherwise, half a meter is sufficient between the clamps on the straight segment. The gaps between the individual strips are 5 millimeters, in the case of temperature expansion of the material.