The most natural and attractive design of the local area is the creation of a lawn on it. On a bright summer day, a fresh, beautifully trimmed and well-groomed lawn near the house will look simply irresistible. Unfortunately, often a lawn created by oneself does not look attractive enough - its decorativeness depends on weather factors, on whether people walk on it or transport is moving. It is quite possible to prevent the occurrence of a problem situation, for this you should take advantage of the benefits of laying a lawn grate.

Content

1. Lawn grill - for what purpose is it used
2. What are the benefits of a lawn grill? video
3. Lawn Grate Design
4. What types of lawn grills are used to create a landscape design
   • plastic lawn grate
   • concrete grill for lawns
   • concrete mebel grille
5. How to lay a lawn grate video video
6. How to care for the lawn

Lawn grill - for what purpose is it used

The lawn grill today is an effective universal tool by which you can create a lawn that is ideal in appearance and resistance to mechanical stress. They use it not only when creating a landscaped garden or courtyard in private suburban ownership - its application gives excellent results when it is necessary to equip large areas intended for public use.

The main purpose of the lawn grate is to strengthen the soil and protect the rhizomes of plants. Most often, it is used by the owners of country houses for arrangement:

• house territory,
• recreation areas,
• playgrounds for children
• walking paths
• golf courses,
• parking places for cars.

It should be emphasized that the lawn grill for parking allows you to maintain high quality lawn cover for a long period.

What are the benefits of a lawn grill?

Among the positive qualities of the material should be noted:

• simplicity and speed of installation,
• ease of subsequent maintenance of the lawn - it can be treated with lawn mowers or gas mowers,
• environmental cleanliness, the ability to use near residential premises, in places of recreation for children and adults,
• ease of transportation
• frost resistance - you will not need to dismantle the structure for the winter,
• the ability to give the surface perfect evenness,
• contributing to maintaining an attractive lawn appearance
• soil strengthening,
• plant root system protection,
• normalizes the circulation of moisture in the soil.

The installation of a lawn grate along the banks of the rivers helps to prevent floods, and along the roads it stops the destruction of slopes of the curbs.

Lawn Grate Design

Its design is quite simple, it is durable modules made of plastic or concrete, connected by special latches. The special design and thoughtful assembly method allows you to create a monolithic coating that is resistant to vertical and horizontal mechanical loads.

A positive point is the simplicity of calculating the number of modules, it can be determined independently. The arrangement can be carried out on the territory of the most complex geometric shape, the most important point in this case will be the selection of the correct stacking order for each of the elements, while having the opportunity, if necessary, to adjust their parameters.

What types of lawn grills are used to create a landscape design

Since there are two types of gratings, before you give preference to one of them, you should understand the advantages and disadvantages of each, taking into account the intensity with which the vegetation cover will be used, you will also need to pay attention to the features of the area to be improved. Consider the features of each of the species.

plastic lawn grate

The universal high-strength plastic material on the lawns looks very neat, due to the thinness of the cells, the black or green color of the material makes it almost invisible. The light weight of the material greatly facilitates the process of laying it, you will not need to use special equipment or machinery, nor will you need to order a truck for its delivery to the site. If it is necessary to equip sites with a geometrically complex shape, the grating can easily be divided into parts.

The resulting lawn will look as close to natural as possible, but with systematic mechanical loads, high pressure loads or use on complex soils, a decrease in service life can be noted. But when exposed to high or low temperatures, acids or petroleum products, the lattice does not change its technical characteristics, the release of toxic substances from it is not observed.

The cost of plastic lawn gratings is slightly higher than concrete, but its service life at optimal loads is about 25 years.

In the distribution network, you can find material with different cell sizes and various forms of the module - diamond-shaped or round.

concrete grill for lawns

Concrete analogues of plastic gratings appeared much earlier. The main advantages of these designs are their high strength, durability and reliability. A concrete lawn grate can be used on dense, heavy soils, where the ability to create a complete drainage system is somewhat difficult. A concrete lawn grate, the price of which is lower than plastic, will not require careful preparation of the soil before installation. The use of a concrete structure is possible in places where there is a high pressure load on the lawn, for example, in a parking lot. She has a long service life. If you have some building skills, you can make such a grid yourself.

concrete mebel grille

Of particular note is the mebel cellular module having unique qualities. They make it from vibro-pressed concrete and use it for equipment of eco-parking, plant protection, planted on lawns and soil strengthening. The strength of the material exceeds the performance of a plastic analog by several times. For ease of installation, manufacturers have provided for a wide size range - to choose the plates of the desired type and size will not be difficult. If an ordinary concrete lawn grate confuses consumers with its standard gray shade, then the mebel grate has a rich color gamut, the choice of the grate shade is carried out in accordance with the requirements of the created landscape design. Meba is an environmentally friendly material, when heated it does not emit substances toxic to people and unpleasant odors.

How to lay a lawn grate

At first glance, the styling process technology is quite simple. In fact, subject to the recommendations, each owner of the site will be able to do this work with his own hands. Depending on the intended use of the site, we determine the material of the grating - at lower loads, you can use a plastic product, while parking equipment it is better to pay attention to concrete analogues.

First, you need to calculate the number of modules, for this you need to determine the area of \u200b\u200bthe lawn and divide it by the area that one module you have selected.

Next, you should calculate what maximum load the future lawn will need to withstand. The thickness of the base should be such as to ensure stability of the soil and be sufficiently permeable to water.

Next, mark the size of the lawn on the ground and dig a pit.

The depth of the pit for laying can be in the range of 10-30 cm, in the event that stable pressure loads are planned, the depth should be maximized - laying of a thick underlying layer will be required. Its height can be from 5 to 20 cm, depending on the planned loading of the site. When constructing a parking space, the layer thickness should be made as permissible as possible. The height of the next leveling layer should be about 2-3 cm, a total of about 28 cm.

The laying technology does not depend on which material was preferred - the procedure will be the same.

At the end of the preparatory work, it will be necessary to strengthen the boundaries of the pit by laying brick or stone, you can also perform concrete pouring.

The pillow should be poured from sand and gravel in a layer of 5 - 20 cm - the gravel mixed with sand will settle down more densely, it will not slip under loads. A gravel-sand pillow is covered with a layer of geotextile - it will prevent the possibility of weeds growing on the lawn. Level the surface with a two to three centimeter layer of sand.

In addition to weed protection, geotextiles play the role of a separating material - they exclude the penetration of soil into the sand-crushed stone pillow, thereby preventing the appearance of dips and pits. It also acts as a drainage.

When laying a plastic lawn grate, the web is assembled using special docking elements. It is most convenient to connect the modules at an angle of 45 degrees. If the dimensions of the module turn out to be too large, we remove the excess fragments with a hacksaw. By the way, the standard size of the module is 40x60 cm.

Laying the gratings produce a wide surface down. When laying each subsequent row, the modules are shifted by 1 cell.

If the tiles are made of concrete, then a circular saw can be corrected for their shape and size.

How to care for the lawn

At the last stage of work, each of the cells with soil suitable for growing lawns. Peaty, light soil is best. Then the whole territory should be watered - the soil will settle in this case. Then you can start sowing seeds or laying the purchased pre-prepared lawn. When sowing seeds, mineral fertilizers are also added to the soil. Seeding grass seeds should be in the soil to a depth of 2-3 cm lower than the upper edge of the trellis. The plot is watered, the load on the lawn should be excluded before the time of complete germination of the grass.

To maintain the decorative look of the lawn, you will need to adhere to very simple rules of care:

• carry out regular watering,
• apply organic and mineral fertilizers to the soil,
• cut grass in a timely manner.

These measures will be sufficient to maintain the aesthetic appearance of the site and ease of use.

Author: Sergey and Svetlana Khuentsov

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