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Usually garden paths are heavy, so they require serious base preparation. This path is light and durable.
Our option might be a revolution in path construction. If I had thought of it earlier, I would have made this kind of path around the project, the thousand
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house, and it would have become the blind area. The components of our path are much lighter than paving slabs, natural stone, natural pavers, or poured concrete.
That's why for installation, it's enough to just remove the sod and slightly loosen the soil. You can make
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these paths in one place, transport them in your own vehicle, easily unload them, and quickly assemble them somewhere else. The manufacturing process is very simple and easy, so even women can handle it.
Very affordable building materials are used, and you can buy them
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at any hardware store. Such paths will allow us to make our home and country properties as beautiful as the luxury of Rubioka and for just pennies.
Just a little pleasant work and you'll be able to reach the composter, outdoor toilet,
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and summer shower by luxury paths made in the Mediterranean style. Minimum work, maximum aesthetic impact.
Viewers of the Yasha Koshak songs channel will be the first to learn this important information. [Music]
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And now let's go through everything step by step. Hello everyone.
It's time to extend our garden path that we made a few years ago. We couldn't make it the right length from the start because natural stone was too expensive.
We decided to extend the path up to here. I
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will be using possibly an innovative method, an idea that has been on my mind for a long time. Like this, it's probably too narrow, but like this it's too wide.
That's practically a whole boulevard. From the previous successfully completed project, I have some pinniplex comfort left over.
I
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roughen up the sheets on both sides with a saw blade for wood that's been detached from the handle. This is the simplest and fastest way to give the sheets the necessary roughness.
At least that's the only way I know. September is really pleasing with its unusually good weather.
That's why I got to work right
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in the garden on the grass. I want to soak up the warmth which will soon be replaced by chilly weather.
I glue the foam sheets together with polyurethane construction adhesive foam. While the glue sets, I press the sheets down with a weight.
For this purpose, I
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use Elements of Classic Walkways heavy paving slabs. While it's warm, the adhesive foam sets very quickly.
In about 20 minutes, you can cut off the excess that has been squeezed out. Three sheets glued together by width
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measure almost 180 cm. [Music] I find the center and cut the workpiece into equal parts.
I use foam sheets that are 3 cm thick. They have a rabbit along
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the edges, which I cut off. The 2cm thick foam sheets don't have these rabbits, but I haven't decided to save on thickness just yet.
Now, the blanks are almost 90 cm wide, and that's exactly what I need. Leftover Peniplex is good, but I had to go to the store
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for the rest of the ingredients. Next, I use alkali resistant plaster fiberglass mesh with a cell size of 5x5 mm.
It's sold in rolls 1 m wide. I cut it into pieces 2 m long.
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For the first two test sections of the path, I'll need three of these pieces, one of which I cut lengthwise down the middle. I mix a plaster adhesive compound that's used in exterior insulation work.
It's used to glue foam board or facade sheets
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of mineral wool to walls that need insulation. Then using the same compound, a base reinforcing layer is created on the surface.
I started making this layer on the surface of the first piece.
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[Music] To move on to the second piece, I had to clear the workspace. For this, I used a plastic barrel, but without even
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support, the piece bent, so I couldn't leave it like that. The glue mixture will set and the surface will stay bent like that forever.
So, I'm putting the piece back on the table. Because of these manipulations, there was a small issue with a fresh reinforcing layer.
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I'm fixing it by adding a thin layer of glue mixture. All this fuss happened because I didn't risk putting the unset piece with the hanging mesh on the grass.
I was afraid that it would come off the edges of the extruded polyyrene foam. The goal with the first two sheets
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is to work out the technique. After that, the process should go much faster.
A wooden bench and a second pair of hands helped out.
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I'm applying the adhesive mixture to the second piece. I'm pressing the fiberglass mesh into it with a wide putty knife, making it relatively even.
Meanwhile, the surface of the second piece has set and I'm cleaning up its
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edges. [Music] We switch the pieces at the corners and I trim the fiberglass mesh.
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I mix the plaster adhesive compound again and apply it to the other side. I also make sure to spread the adhesive on the edges.
The next steps are similar to wrapping a piece of extruded polystyrene foam in a fiberglass mesh envelope. This
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way, not only both surfaces, but also all the edges are reinforced. I've heard there's a metropolis where the mayor is really focused on the quality of roads and pathways and is constantly improving them.
My modest dream is that this method will help improve pathways at
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least throughout the entire postsviet region. And if you share this video everywhere you can, you'll be a part of it, too.
Let's strive for this together. After the uneven edges set, I fix them with a putty knife.
The mixture contains
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special polymers to enhance adhesion to the insulation and cement, and cement gains most of its strength in 28 days. So, after the initial setting, it's easy to make adjustments.
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For the new viewers of the Yasha Kziac songs channel, I want to let you know that this plunge pool mini poolool is also about 90% made of pinniplex. The heat has passed, so we're using it as a water reservoir.
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I do exactly the same with the second piece. The serrated side of the stainless steel tel allows you to apply the adhesive more evenly than if you use the smooth side.
That's exactly what the serrated
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side is for. With the smooth side of the triel, I'm embedding the fiberglass mesh into the adhesive.
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I'm cutting off the extra small pieces of mesh. [Music] Even though it's already well into September, the sun is still shining hot.
Without any shade, the glue starts to stretch like this behind the spatula pretty quickly. [Music]
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I had to spray the surface with water. Actually, it's better to do this kind of work in the shade.
With a wide putty knife, you can easily make the surface smooth enough for what I have in mind. I'm sure that to do what I've decided to do, you don't need any construction
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experience at all. The whole sequence of actions is incredibly simple and manageable, not only for men, but also for women.
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The glue dries quickly in the sun, so I try to keep the surface moist. Cement likes moisture.
At this point, I realized that the improvised envelopes made from fiberglass mesh and glue with foam inside turned out almost exactly as I imagined. So, I went and bought more
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glue, mesh, and foam. There are 13 sheets, each 3 cm thick in one package.
There are also thicker sheets. I'm roughening up the foam sheets again.
By the way, there is also insulation that's already rough called Pinniplex Steam.
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But in the store closest to our village, it was sold out, and I was too lazy to go to a farther store. It's faster to roughen up the smooth one.
Besides, it's a great warm-up. I decided to continue the rest of the work on making the garden path under the canopy.
Peniplex Comfort is used for insulating roofs,
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walls, and balconies, but I use it in a much wider range. I do all this at my own risk.
The material has never let me down. Fortunately, this isn't military smoke camouflage.
It's just burning unnecessary vegetation.
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The neighbors are starting their annual ritual. There are no bans in our Bellarouchian environmental legislation on burning leaves and plant debris by citizens on their own household plots.
This is true freedom. Even in free America, this definitely wouldn't fly.
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When I got a headache from the neighbors smoke, I started to wonder if maybe we don't need this Bellarusian freedom after all. Maybe it's better without it.
For example, like the Germans who follow every rule where every action has to be approved by countless authorities. But I push those thoughts away.
That way,
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we'll definitely lose our Slavic craze, uh, authenticity. It's as if my neighbor sensed that in my genes, besides Slavic and pagan, there's also a trace of some very, uh, distant Eastern genes.
So, he only intensified the wild dance of smoke and fire,
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asserting the superiority of the Slavic world. At one point, it even seemed to me that he threw some illegal plants into the fire, and now the village will have to declare a holiday.
What kind of thoughts don't come to mind under the influence of this smoke? At dusk, the
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neighbor was replaced by a neighbor woman, and she continued the crazy ritual. Despite our pleas to stop, at least for the night, she kept insisting that the law doesn't forbid it while continuing to drive out demons.
You can't burn out genetic memory, not even with a red hot iron. From personal
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observation, the urge for this kind of pyromania comes with age, but fortunately not for everyone. Retirement age encourages its flourishing.
Such manifestations at an earlier age may be due to the fact that the psychological age is already approaching retirement,
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but that's not certain. Therefore, those who are ready to experience rural romance should consider how deeply they really want to immerse themselves in it.
And perhaps in order not to be cast out along with the demons, it might be better to choose a cottage village over a rural one. With a more homogeneous
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community where the battle for the harvest is not the top priority. By the way, to reduce harmful effects on nature and on our neighbors respiratory systems, we've been using a garden shredder for a long time now.
I decided to do the work of creating the rest of the track elements on the floor. For me,
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this arrangement of parts is more familiar than working on a table. When we made the mini poolool plunge tub, we had a few rounded scraps of extruded polystyrene left over, and I decided to put one of them to use.
It's an almost waste-free process. It was in a similar
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way, right on the floor, that I made record-breakingly cheap, energyefficient walls in the $1,000 house project. These are the wall elements of our outdoor Euro style toilet.
The base of a very warm raised bed, the filling for sliding gates, all using Pinniplex.
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By the way, there are very detailed videos about all of this on the Pesnashi Koshaka channel. I'll leave links to them under this video as well.
Basically, you could glue together one big blank from Pinniplex, reinforce it on both sides, and then cut it into the required pieces. For example, that's how
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I made the filling for sliding gates. 90% of it was made from Pinniplex, but in that case, you end up with unprotected, unreinforced edges.
When I made a tall, warm garden bed from extruded polystyrene foam, I reinforced the edges separately. For the walkway
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elements, I want to get reinforced edges right away. That's why I have to go through all this hassle of wrapping the pinniplex in mesh.
People often ask me which plaster adhesive mix is best to use. I have only one criterion for
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choosing, price. I go to the store and pick the one with the biggest discount at the moment.
Every reputable brand of construction mixes produces adhesive for mineral wool and polystyrene foam. I can't single out any particular one yet.
None of them will apply themselves to
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the surface on their own, that's for sure. I'm not a professional, just uh an amateur, so I haven't developed an attachment to any particular brand.
The work is very simple and easy. It's very easy to achieve enough smoothness with a wide spatula.
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[Music] This material can also be, for example, an excellent countertop that isn't afraid of the elements. By the way, using this material to make reliable outdoor furniture is a whole separate
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topic, which I hope to get to someday. There's always something to build.
My version is experimental, so repeating it is entirely your responsibility. But based on certain personal experience, I don't see anything that could prevent its successful implementation.
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To support the weight of just one or a few people, classic garden paths are made from deliberately very heavy materials such as concrete paving slabs, natural stone, concrete screed in wealthy homes, and granite paving stones. These very heavy coverings
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require a very thorough preparation of the base, careful tamping of sand, the use of expensive crushed stone, screenings, and equally expensive cement grout. And all this is done so that the heavy material itself does not sink into the ground over time under its own
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weight. Why go through all this trouble when you just need to replace the heavy material with a relatively light one?
Or am I wrong? After consulting with my wife, I started sketching the decorative surface.
Let there be something like paving stones along the edges and in the
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middle an imitation of natural stone. I transfer the markings to the edges since the lines will become invisible under the layer of mortar.
Extruded polystyrene foam paniplex has long been used in road construction. It's even used in the construction of runways.
The
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material is environmentally friendly, bioresistant, effective, and has a service life of more than 50 years. Pinniplex reduces the depth of seasonal freezing and prevents deformationations caused by frost heaving forces.
Since
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Pinniplex has almost zero water absorption, I believe it can also serve as waterproofing. We checked this clearly when we built our plunge pool mini poolool.
Back then, I only sealed the seams with waterproofing because from experience, I know that glue and foam can let water through. On the
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prepared walkway sections, we have a basic reinforcing layer on which we can now apply a wide variety of finishing coatings. To apply our version of the coating, I'll use the cheapest tile adhesive.
I just randomly smooth the applied tile adhesive with a spatula.
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It's really convenient that some of the work can be done at waist level on the table. On the surface that started to set, I apply a preliminary marking for the paving stones based on the marks on the ends.
To fully immerse myself in the creative process, I move to the garden for further work. It's very convenient
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that the position of the future path surface can easily be changed from horizontal to vertical. Even I don't know how to draw such a pattern if the tile adhesive from the improvised joints stayed on the surface instead of falling down pulled by the gravity of our
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planet. The advantages of this method are obvious.
For years, our buildings made of pinniplex have proven that it's not only excellent for thermal insulation, waterproofing, and insulation, but also as a structural material. Reinforced on both sides with
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fiberglass mesh in a mixture, it turns into a truly strong composite. Moreover, it's the kind that any home builder or gardener can make from materials that are widely available.
According to science, under a proper path or blind area, you're supposed to lay extruded
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polystyrene foam. There, it simply lies and prevents freezing and frost heaving.
In the way I use it, it will not only lie there, but also bear a direct load. The weather is hot, but with a fairly strong wind.
One of those gusts knocked
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this piece down. It hit the concrete paving slab lying on the floor with full force.
There were barely noticeable marks left on the barely set decorative surface made of tile adhesive, which I immediately fixed. The strength and
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repairability are excellent. I'm moving it to a place that's inaccessible to the southern wind.
Even in severe frost, you no longer have to stop landscaping work. Just move your creative activities to a warm room.
In winter, you can work, for example, in the garage by heating up a
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stove. And city dwellers can even do it in their apartment on the balcony.
When the spring warmth arrives, you can take the path down by elevator, bring it by car, and quickly install it at your summer house. I touch the fresh glue with my hand.
No problem. Everything is very easy to fix and adjust.
If you hold
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the serrated side of the stainless steel tel at about a 45° angle to the surface, the glue lines it leaves will be evenly filled. That means the same amount is applied, and the joints you make later will have the same depth.
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My wife is already actively joining in decorating our constructions, and this isn't the first time. Women often engage in rather useless hobbies like painting on glass or ceramics.
This type of pathway allows such hobbies to be turned into something truly useful. Also, these
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pathways might even replace useless children's coloring books with something beneficial. Don't judge us too harshly.
We're not professionals, just regular enthusiasts who like to build things. But I want to point out that from project to project, at least the way I
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imitate natural stone is getting better and better. This time I came to a simple solution.
At any point on the surface of the future path, only three seam lines should meet, not four. It turns out pretty well.
Seems normal. I smooth out all the sharp corners.
I draw the seams
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with a piece of bent wire. I keep myself in check so I don't accidentally subconsciously draw something inappropriate.
Inspired by the situation in the world, this kind of home creativity really helps me to detach from everything. An ever watchful enemy
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by reading these lines born from my brain activity could learn everything about me. I stopped watching television a long time ago, but I still feel restless.
The more I draw, the more I want to draw, only good things. My thoughts are getting back to normal.
The blanks started being made as fast as hot
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cakes. Usually, garden paths and grassy lawns are two landscape beauties that complement each other.
Thanks to the foam plastic plunge pool, we now have a decent supply of water warmed by the sun. During dry weeks, it became much more convenient to water the vegetable
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garden and the grass. The weak pressure in the irrigation system is no longer a limitation.
Because of this, our grass even resembles a lawn. Now, to make it look even more like one, I decided to rely not only on the power of watering,
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but also on the power of real fertilizers. And the mineral fertilizer Fertica Lawn Autumn is a complex granular slowrelease fertilizer.
It contains all the necessary macro and microelements in the optimal ratio. Around the $1,000 house
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project, there is a blind area hidden under the grass. The grass is in its first year of growth and needs to be fertilized.
The increased content of phosphorus and potassium ensures good rooting of grass mixtures and promotes the formation of a strong root system.
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It provides good overwintering for the plants and overall high lawn preservation. Near the goose, the central area of the yard definitely needs to be fertilized.
And for many years, we've been using grass from the garden to mulch our productive tall, warm beds. It's time not only to take
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but also to repay our debt to the grass. In September, it gets cooler and with the arrival of autumn rains, it's the optimal time to lay a new lawn or maintain an existing one.
After that, the lawn needs to be watered thoroughly. At the same time, I water the grass in
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the composter and the Spiniplex. And with the arrival of October, you need to think about preparing your existing lawn for winter.
It's the perfect time to apply autumn phosphorus potassium fertilizers as a top dressing. And this is how you can empty the tub
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without a hole at the bottom. I rely on the marked thin lines, but I try to draw the paving stones in slightly different sizes.
After a short break, the ancient pagan ritual
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continued. It took only one and a half bags of tile adhesive to apply the stone texture to the almost 10 m long path.
[Music] Um, you can really go all out and give the surface an absolutely incredible
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look. I first clean up the hardened stones with a spatula and then with a wire brush.
I try to use the simplest approach possible with minimal effort and maximum aesthetic impact. Jana is starting to get into it and is
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really enjoying the creative process. For painting, we use the cheapest white base paint and about five different colorants to give the stones various colors.
I'm finishing applying the texture to the final element of the path, the one adjacent to the plunge
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pool. This time, we decided to extend the path right up to it.
Our covered space started to look like an artist's studio with canvases set up everywhere. Here are the simple materials and tools.
A couple of paint brushes and some kitchen sponges. I'm starting to mark
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out the path. Two segments are already completely finished.
Here is the list of materials used for one section of the path, which is 1 m 20 cm long and 90 cm wide. 1 and 1/2 sheets of Pinniplex Comfort, 3 cm thick, 3 square meters of
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fiberglass mesh, 10 kg of plaster nicks, 4 kg of tile adhesive, just a little bit of paint and varnish, and a couple of grams of foam adhesive. That's all the paving stones are being tinted
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black. By multiplying by the cost of materials in your area, you'll find out the exact cost price.
A cord is an indispensable thing for setting straight lines.
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A board-edged garden bed was recently removed from this spot because of the high yield of the others. The place has become overgrown with random grass, and I don't mind removing
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the very top layer of sod. [Music] My wife is cleaning the stone.
Even real facade workers could envy her speed now. And that's all because her hobby was
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simply directed in the right way. I don't think my wife would have agreed to paint a walkway lying flat.
I'm testing out the simplest method of laying walkways, which until now existed only in my head. Looks like everything is working out.
I remember how I used to
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tamp down the sand when I was making a walkway out of heavy natural stone. And I realized that with this new walkway, I really want to skip that step.
Well, why not use it as a countertop? [Music]
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Such walkway elements should hold up even if they only have two points of support, and they'll do even better just lying on the ground. One of my friends tried to make a loadbearing beam out of foam board, quickly calling himself a pioneer.
He didn't succeed because he didn't realize that with this material,
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you shouldn't make beams, but rather floor slabs right away. Most likely, he just couldn't get used to this wonderful material.
You need to love extruded polystyrene. You need to think with it.
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And I covered everything on top with a reliable but cheap tinted antiseptic acrylic varnish or stone. [Music] You should also keep in mind that such a path doesn't require any expenses at all
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for preparing the base and those expenses can often exceed the cost of the covering itself. When installing such paths, anyone can feel like Arnold Schwarzenegger, earn the respect of their neighbors, and be known as strong as Iron Arie.
Watching how easily you
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handle what appear to be concrete slabs, even the unfriendly neighbor will stop openly showing his unkindness, and the friendly neighbor will be glad to live next to such a strong person. Wooden sidewalks, which were called Moski in Russia, also support this method.
The
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oldest moski in Russia are located in Veliki Nogarod. In our case, the lightweight but temperamental wood has been replaced with a material that is just as light but absolutely not temperamental when it comes to maintenance.
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Surely many people understand how important it is to have reliable personal transportation in order to implement cost-effective construction methods. In the previous video on the Yasha Kosak channel, the body of our 15-year-old Dodge was repaired.
The
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video was filmed over a month and a half. I tried to clearly show and explain in detail how much effort, money, and time it took to properly bring a rusty car back to life.
For those who haven't seen it yet, I'm leaving the link below the video. By the way, foam was also found in the American
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car. Well, do you see what's here?
[Music] foam. Yes, this is the best material.
Reliable. I know it sounds like a joke, but you can even rent out these paths for things like outdoor ceremonies or
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special events. Now, the ultra innovative path will be tested by time.
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