Use less time and effort, for better results. Know and be familiar with a few key tools you need. Video inspired by a conversation with Stephanie Hafferty, from questions asked on the FB Group Undug.
I show efficient and easy use of just a few tools. We start with moving compost in my old wheelbarrow, a vital tool.
You see how a manure fork contrasts with a digging fork. I use the former to load a wheelbarrow, and break lumps of compost so that spreading is more even and compost is then more available to soil organisms
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Installing a walkway can be a very labor intensive job, but if you do it yourself, you can save a lot of money over hiring contractor.
Before you get started, you’ll need the following materials.
-fiber reinforced concrete
-claw hammer
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-wooden stakes
-expansion joints: we used amzn.to/2A30IIX
-wood forms
-trowel
-wheelbarrow
-Bosch electric shovel: amzn.to/2zSqJuy or manual equivalent
-concrete mixing tools
-broom
-tape measure
First, determine how long and how wide you want your walkway to be. After you’ve measured the width, drive a stake into the ground on both sides of where you’ll begin, these stakes will be your reference points for the remainder of the project.
Then, attach a screw to the lower third of the first stake. Use a line level to make sure you’ve got the proper angle of drainage away from the house.
The line level is basically a long piece of string strung through a small level. The string fits through two holes on top of the level, so you can slide the level along the string.
Take one end of the string, attach it to the screw you’ve installed on the first stake, drive a second stake at the end of your proposed walkway. Attach the other end of the string to this stake and check to make sure that you will have proper drainage. In other words, you don’t want the bubble to show “level”,you want there to be a slight slope away from the house. (Failure to make sure water will drain away from your house could later cause foundation problems)
Next, use a shovel or the Bosch electric shovel, to dig out the area of your walk.
Once this is done, sink a stake about ever two feet on both sides of the cut out ground where your walkway will go. Then take 3” X 4’ pieces of plywood and attach them at ground level to the stakes. You can use a cordless screwdriver to hold the plywood to the stakes. These pieces of wood are your concrete forms which will hold the cement in place when you’re ready to pour the walkway.
But first, put in your expansion joints. Expansion joints are installed about every three feet and are used to keep your concrete from cracking during expansion and contraction in hot and cold weather.
Using fiber reinforced concrete, which we used in this segment, is a good idea. The hundreds of thousands of tiny fibers give the concrete extra strength as is hardens, thereby eliminating the need for wire mesh or re-bar to support ordinary concrete.
Mix your concrete in a wheelbarrow. Then pour the walkway into the forms. Use a trowel to smooth it out and make sure you have a nice even finish.
TIP: Before the concrete dries, use a broom to give the surface texture. Simply take a broom and lightly sweep across the concrete from side to side. This will put small grooves into the concrete surface as it dries and will reduce the chance of your walkway being slippery when wet.
After the concrete has thoroughly dried (usually five days) remove the outer forms and stakes and you’ve got a beautiful walkway.
WHAT WE USED
The material used to install the backyard sidewalk was Quikrete Fiber Reinforced Concrete.
Quikrete’s fiber reinforced concrete contains hundreds of thousands of tiny fibers which finish smooth, eliminating the need for wire mesh or heavy re-bar in many slab-on-grade applications like walkways, patios steps etc. Specially developed to minimize cracking, chipping and flaking.
Fiber reinforced concrete also dramatically reduces cracking caused by drying shrinkage.
Quikrete Expansion Joint Strips, amzn.to/2A30IIX protect concrete slabs from potential damage caused by expansion and contraction. Made from cane fiber, the five foot long strips are weather resistant, absorb very little water, and do not become brittle in cold weather.
If your lawn is starting to look thin or worn out, if it has bare spots, or if it isnt quite as drought-resistant as it once was, it might be time to overseed. Overseeding involves applying grass seed over an existing lawn to make it fuller and thicker — and its an important part of a good overall lawn care strategy. For more information on Scotts products, please visit our website: www.doitbest.com/Main.aspx?PageId=365
In this video my wife Brooke and I build a very simple, very affordable cabin. With a simple single pitch roof and only 2 windows. While I was filming this building project so was Brooke. You can check out her first video featuring this cabin by clicking the link below. Ill see you on part 2
In this lawn care vlog I am mowing extra thick and wet nasty grass and the whole clean up. So thick it even bogged down the Cheetah.
Check out Copper Creek Cuts channel here: www.youtube.com/channel/UCxO0fSEEOeJE6Wo1HVgecgA
This video will show you how to plant grass seed to fix or repair bare or dead spots in the lawn. I also discuss my above ground sprinkler system and you can find out more about that here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEN0d6efQJs
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Skills you need to make the most of your precious seeds and to elongate the growing season, through early sowing, overlapping crops and filling empty spaces at any time.
My tips cover where to sow, how to grow plants on and at what stage to set them in the ground. All with examples from my conservatory, greenhouse and garden at Homeacres, Somerset, U.K. Zone 8b climate.
My website www.charlesdowding.co.uk/ has time and money saving tips.
I have two online courses which include hundreds of photos and exclusive video content, for more information go to charlesdowding.co.uk/product-category/online-courses/
Filmed early April 2018 by Edward Dowding. Final edit on his laptop in my car on the way to airport for returning to university. edowdingfilms.onfabrik.com/portfolio
More info in my videos such as how to multisow in modules www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWUwS9P_GOs.
Also on my website is info on multisowing www.charlesdowding.co.uk/learn/multisowing/
This video shows me planting in early spring www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yl8LIs5t2A
Follow my progress on instagram charles_dowding
And Twitter @charlesdowding
This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook resuscitates a dying lawn. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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