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Paving Materials Are Uitable:
ust about all types of paving materials are uitable for surfacing a patio—bricks, stone ir cement blocks, cobblestones, and gravel, however, take care in selecting a surfacing naterial as you will be laying a wide area .nd some textures or colors may be too nuch to bear.
You may want to use the same materials o pave a patio as those used for paths :lsewhere in the garden. This helps to give i unified appearance to your garden, or you nay want to match materials used in the instruction of your house. To provide visual interest in the surface, consider adding iections of other materials which are available—areas of gravel or cobblestones in i patio paved with blocks or bricks, perhaps, ar a mixture of pavers and blocks.
Regardless of the material used to pave a patio, it can still look very stark if the surface is unbroken by decoration. In general, patios also tend to look a lot better if they are linked in one of the ways suggested below to the rest of the garden.Don't feel confined to one sort of material in your garden. Instead of having a uniform patio area of, say, brick or paving, experiment with more than one type of paving material. You can create many imaginative yet subtle surfaces by mixing materials of different colors, shapes, and textures.
PAVING BLOCKS, block pavers and other paving materials must be laid on a surface that is firm, flat and stable. A base of well-compacted subsoil covered with a layer of sand is sufficient for laying paving, but for large, well-used areas, or where the soil is soft, it will be necessary to add a layer of compacted rubble to prevent the paving from sinking. Compacted rubble contains many depressions, even after consolidation by garden roller. These have to be filled by spreading a layer of sand over the surface and leveling it with the back of a garden rake. Paving blocks or other small-scale pavers can be laid directly on the sand layer using mortar, although some block pavers can be laid loose on a prepared sand bed without the use of any mortar. Before doing any excavation work, check where all your service pipes and cables are so as not to damage them.
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