The curb and curb are not the same?
First let's remember what is originally called a curb. Even in Russia, when building white-stone churches and princely chambers, limestone bricks were used to lay the facing so that a certain ornament appeared on the outside of the wall. And a layer of brick laid at a slight angle to the rest of the clutch, when one of the ribs looks outward, was just called the curb. This word fits perfectly to the style of masonry.
It is worth mentioning the fact that the curb is mentioned in the law "On measures to strengthen control over the state of external improvement of St. Petersburg", developed and adopted in the northern capital of Russia. There it is said that on the sidewalks, where the traffic density of pedestrians is extremely high, the soil around the trees should be covered with bars, separated from paving by curb. The latter should be flush with the pavement, flush.
How big is the difference between a curb and a curb?
There is an opinion that there is definitely a difference between the sidewalks located at the level of the roadway and raised above it. And, consequently, the fringing of the sidewalk towering over the road is not a curb, so it's a curb.
The border divides the pavement and the roadway, which are on the same level. By the way, the edging of the pedestrian part of the road can really consist of vertically placed bricks, turned for beauty at an angle to the bridge. Also, the curb can be made of concrete cast-in-one blocks.
Also quite frequent, especially in St. Petersburg, are granite curbs, they can be seen not only along the embankments, but also on the ancient streets of the city. Interestingly, as a material for the curbs gravestones are sometimes used with orphan graves.
Similar takes place all the same in St. Petersburg, and according to city rules on the fate of the identified orphan graves. If within 3 years the relatives of the deceased are not found or are not revealed themselves, the burial is abolished, and the slab is transferred to the needs of the city.
How do I put the side stone on my own?
Sometimes I do not want to wonder, the curb is the boundary of the path or something else. There is a desire that this limitation should be, and the only exciting moment - how correctly to lay the side stone? In this there is nothing complicated. And even there is no need to use heavy construction equipment, because the borders are produced not only in large formats, but also in the form of short elements.
Most often, the curbs are produced by the simplest accelerated method of casting simple concrete, the service life of such board stones is no more than 2 years.
We do the marking of the track on the site, and so that the lines of trenching under the curb are parallel to each other, it is a matter of aesthetics. Roy ditch or trench, who likes what, and depending on what we put, curb or curb. Then stretch over the resulting( and necessarily not too deep) moat thread, pour sand on the bottom to create a cozy pillow under the side stone.
Align the rule and compact the sand on the beacons - two bars, laid in 23 centimeters from the thread, taking into account the thickness of the mortar layer, and two meters apart( if you need to lift them - use the same sand).We pour a cement mortar on the sand base and install an onboard stone into it, proceed to the next and so on to the last. We fill the moat with the soil after the solution has solidified.