A garden path that is EASY, CHEAP, SIMPLE and BEAUTIFUL, made by yourself!

Garden paths are usually heavy so they require serious foundation preparation. This path is light and durable our option is possibly a revolution in path construction if I had thought of it earlier I would have made such a path. Around the thousand dollar house project then it would have become a blind area. The components of our path are significantly lighter than paving slabs. Natural stone natural paving stones poured concrete so forth. Installation it is enough to just remove the turf and slightly loosen the soil such paths can be made in one place transported by personal transport easily unloaded and quickly installed in another the manufacturing is very simple and easy so it is accessible even to the weaker sex very affordable. Building materials can be bought in any hardware store such paths will allow our household and dacha plots to be beautifully comparable to the luxury of just a little pleasant work and you can get to the composter the outdoor toilet and the summer shower along luxury paths made in the mediterranean style minimum work maximum aesthetic output viewers of the channel yasha kasiak songs will be the first to know this important information and now in order hello everyone it's time to extend our garden path made several years ago organizing it to the required length immediately was not allowed by the high cost of natural stone we decided to extend the path to here i will use a possibly innovative method the idea of which has been spinning in my head for a long time this way it's modern and narrow in this way it's wide it's already a whole boulevard from the previous successfully implemented idea there are some leftover pieces of extruded polystyrene foam comfort sheets which are rough on both sides with a detached wooden saw blade this is the easiest and fastest way to give the sheets the desired width at least as far as i know september is very pleasing with anomalously good weather so i got to work in the garden right on the grass i want to soak up the warmth which will soon be replaced by frosty weather i glue the extruded polystyrene foam sheets together with polyurethane construction adhesive for the time the glue sets the sheets are pressed down with weight i use elements of classic paths heavy paving stones while the glue foam sets very quickly in about 20 minutes you can trim the squeezed out excess three glued sheets have a width of almost 180 centimeters i find the middle and cut the workpiece into equal parts i use extruded polystyrene foam sheets three centimeters thick on the edges they have a quarter which i cut off in extruded polystyrene foam sheets two centimeters thick there are no such quarters but i haven't decided to save on thickness yet now the workpieces are almost 90 centimeters wide and this is what i need the remaining extruded polystyrene foam is good but i had to go to the store for the other ingredients next comes the alkali resistant plaster fiberglass mesh with a cell size of five by five millimeters it is sold in rolls one meter wide i cut it into workpieces two meters long for the first two test path elements you will need three such pieces one of which the remnants of styrofoam are good but i had to go to the store for the rest the ingredients then the alkali resistant fiberglass mesh goes in with a cell size of five by five millimeters it is sold in rolls one meter wide i cut them into blanks of length two meters for the first two test runs you will need three such pieces of track one of which i cut it lengthwise in the middle and mix a plaster adhesive compound which is used in facade insulation works on it to the walls that need to be insulated styrofoam or facade mineral wool sheets are glued then with its help a basic reinforcing layer is created on the surfaces such a layer i started to create on the surface of the first workpiece to move on to the second workpiece it was necessary to free up the workspace for this i used a plastic barrel but without even support the workpiece bent it cannot be left like this the adhesive mixture will harden and the surface will remain bent forever so i return the workpiece back to the table due to these manipulations a small mistake occurred with the fresh reinforcing layer i fix it by adding a thin layer of adhesive mixture all the fusses because i didn't dare to put the not yet hardened workpiece with the hanging mesh on the grass i was afraid that it would peel off the extruded polystyrene foam at the edges the task is to work out the technology on the first two sheets after which the process should go much faster a wooden bench and a second pair of hands help me i apply the adhesive compound to the second workpiece i embed the glass mesh into it with a wide spatula i give it relative evenness meanwhile the surface of the second workpiece has said i clean its edges friends construction renovation and landscaping requires serious financial expenses especially when they are carried out in more classic ways for example you need to buy plaster mix but personal finances are already depleted you have to wait for your salary lose precious time or borrow from friends and relatives falling into dependence tinkoff platinum is a credit card with which building will become much more convenient here's how the credit card works you get a card with for example 100 000 rubles on it you can buy in hardware stores order materials online withdraw cash pay for services spend as much as needed within the established limit and then return the money to the card within 55 days this is an interest-free period after returning to the card the limit is available for use again if used wisely it is profitable online card application only a passport is needed the decision is made instantly it will be delivered to a convenient location for you limit up to 1 million rubles transfers without commission to cards of any banks up to 100 000 rubles tinkoff app you can choose recently paid purchases and connect installments use cash back up to 30 and special offers tinkoff has been on the market for over 16 years financial services and you still haven't become its client this needs to be corrected follow the link in the description and apply for a tinkoff platinum card with a credit limit of up to 1 million rubles we swap the work pieces at the corners i trim the glass mesh again i mix the plaster adhesive compound and apply it to the second side i also don't forget to apply glue to the ends further actions resemble wrapping a piece of extruded polystyrene foam in an envelope and glass mesh thus reinforcing it becomes not only both surfaces but also all the ends was burning that there is a metropolis whose mayor is very concerned about the quality of roads and paths and constantly improves them my humble dream is that this method contributes to the improvement of paths at least throughout the entire post-soviet space and if you also be involved let's strive for this together after setting the unevenness of the ends i correct with a spatula the mixture contains special polymers to enhance adhesion to the insulation and cement and cement a large part of the strength is gained in 28 days so after the first setting everything is easy to correct again new viewers of the channel yashin songs kazika report that this font mini pool is also made about 90 and pinoflex the heat has passed so we use it as a water reservoir with the second workpiece i repeat everything exactly the tooth side of the greater made of stainless steel allows applying the adhesive composition to the surface more evenly than if done with the smooth side the tooth side is intended for this with the smooth side of the greater i embed the fiberglass mesh into the glue i cut off excess small pieces of mesh although it is already the whole of september the sun is still scorching in the absence of shade the glue quite quickly begins to stretch with the spatula i had to spray the surface with water in general such things are best done in the shade with a wide spatula it is possible to give the surface smoothness with plenty of it enough for what was intended i am sure in order to implement what i decided to implement i do not need to achieve what i decided to achieve i don't need sufficient surface area for the intended purpose i am sure that in order to accomplish what i have decided to accomplish no construction experience is needed at all the entire sequence of actions is incredibly simple and accessible not only to the stronger sex but also to the weaker thank you for watching the glue dries quickly in the sun so i try to moisten the surface cement loves moisture at this point i realized that the improvised envelopes made of fiberglass mesh and glue containing extruded polystyrene foam turn out almost exactly as so i went and bought more glue mesh and extruded polystyrene foam one package contains 13 sheets three centimeters thick sheets can be thicker too i am roughening the extruded polystyrene foam sheets by the way there is also insulation that is immediately rough which is called extruded polystyrene foam wall but in the nearest store to our village it was sold out and i was too lazy to go to a distant store it's faster to roughen a smooth one and it's also a great warm-up i decided to continue the further work on creating the garden path under the canopy extruded polystyrene foam comfort is used for insulation of roofs walls balconies i use it i am doing all this at my own risk the material has never let me down fortunately this is not military smoke camouflage but simply setting fire to unnecessary vegetation neighbors begin their annual ritual prohibitions on burning leaves and plant residues for citizens on their personal plots of land are not provided for by the environmental legislation of our belarus this is true freedom even in free america this would clearly not fly when my head started to hurt from the neighbor's smoke i began to wonder if this belarusian freedom of ours was worth it maybe it's better for example like the germans marching in lockstep where every action must be coordinated through multiple instances but these thoughts are driven away and we will definitely lose our slavic authenticity the neighbor seemed to sense that in my genes besides slavic and pagan ones there was also a trace of very distant eastern genes so he only intensified the smoke and fire dance asserting the superiority of the slavic world at one point it even seemed to me that he threw into the fire vegetation that was not permitted for cultivation and now there will have to be a holiday in the village what thoughts don't come to mind under the influence of this haze at dusk the neighbor was replaced by his wife who continued the insane ritual despite our pleas to stop at least for the night the law does not prohibit she repeated continually to cast out demons genetic memory cannot be burned out even with a red hot iron based on personal observations the craving for this kind of pyromania comes with age but fortunately not for everyone retirement age contributes to its flourishing such manifestations at an earlier age may be related to the fact that the psychological age is already approaching retirement but this is not certain therefore those who are already ready to taste the village romance should think about how much they want to immerse themselves in it and perhaps in order not to be to immerse oneself in it and possibly so as not to be preferable to those exiled with demons villages into a cottage settlement with a more homogeneous contingent a battle for the harvest which is not a priority by the way to reduce harmful effects on nature and on the respiratory system of neighbors we have long been using a garden shredder i decided to carry out the work of creating the remaining elements of the path on the floor for me this is a more familiar arrangement of details than on the table when we made a mini pool bath from epps we had several rounded scraps one of which i decided to put to use an almost waste-free process it was on the floor in a similar way that i made records cheap heat efficient walls in the house for a thousand dollars project the wall elements of our outdoor european toilet the base of a very warm high garden bed the infill of sliding gates all using pinoplex by the way there are very detailed videos about all this on yasha kasyak's song channel i will leave links under this video as well in principle one large blank could have been glued from pinoplex reinforced on both sides and then cut into the required elements for example this is how i made the infill of sliding gates 90 consisting of pinoplex but in this case there are unprotected unreinforced ends when i made a high warm bed from xpsi reinforced the ends separately in the path elements i want to get reinforced ends right away which is why all this fuss with wrapping pinoplex in mesh i am often asked what plaster and adhesive compound is best to use my criterion for selection is one price i go to the store and choose the one that at the moment has the maximum discount every self-respecting brand of building mixtures produces glue for mineral wool and polystyrene foam i cannot single out any particular one yet none of them will spread themselves onto the surface precisely i am not a professional but a simple amateur so i have not developed an attachment to a particular brand the work is very simple and easy it is very easy to give sufficient smoothness with a wide spatula this material can be for example an excellent weather resistant countertop by the way using the material for making reliable outdoor furniture is a whole separate chapter which i hope will eventually get around to there is more than enough to build my version is experimental so repeating it is entirely at your own risk but based on my personal experience i do not find anything that could prevent its successful implementation to withstand the weight of just one or a few people classic garden paths are made of deliberately very heavy components such as concrete paving slabs natural stone concrete screed in wealthy homes granite paving stones these very heavy coatings require very thorough base preparation careful tamping sand application expensive gravel screenings equally expensive cement grout these very heavy coatings require very thorough preparation of the base thorough tamping sand application of expensive crushed stone screenings no less expensive cement wrestlers and all this so that the heavy material itself under its own weight over time does not sink into the ground why all this suffering when all you need to do is replace the heavy material with a relatively light one or am i wrong after consulting with my wife i started sketching a decorative surface let the edges be something like paving stones and in the middle imitation of natural stone i transfer the markings to the ends as the lines will not be visible under the layer of mortar extruded polystyrene foam pinoplex has long been used in road construction it is even used in the construction of runways the material is environmentally friendly bioresistant effective with a service life of over 50 years pinoplex reduces the depth of seasonal freezing prevents deformation from the effects of frost heave forces since pinoplex has almost zero water absorption i think it can also serve as waterproofing we check this visually when we build our font mini pool then i only seal the seams with waterproofing as from experience i know that the foam adhesive can let water through on the blanks of the path we have a basic reinforcing layer on which we can now apply a huge number of finishing coatings for applying our version of the coating i will use the cheapest tile adhesive i simply smooth the applied tile adhesive with a spatula it is still convenient that part of the work can be done at waist level on a table on the surface that has begun to set based on the mark on the ends i apply preliminary marking of paving stones to immerse myself more fully in the creative process i retreat to the garden for further work it is very convenient that the position of the surface of the future path 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 seams remained on the surface and did not fall down pulled by the gravity of our planet the method has obvious advantages our structure made of pnoplex has been in service for many years confirming that it is not only excellent thermal insulation and waterproofing but also a structural material reinforced on both sides with fiberglass mesh and mixture it turns into a real strong composite and one that any amateur home builder and dacha gardener can make from widely available materials according to science under a proper path or blind area it is necessary to lay pnoplex there it simply lies and prevents freezing and frost heave in the variant of application that i use it will not only lie but also bear direct load the weather is hot but with a fairly strong wind one of these gusts knocked over this blank and with all its might hit the concrete paving slab lying on the floor on the barely set decorative surface of tile adhesive there were barely noticeable marks which i immediately corrected strength and repairability are excellent one of these gusts knocked this workpiece down and with all his might he hit the concrete lying on the floor paving slabs on the barely set decorative the seams will have the same depth in hot windy weather tile adhesive thickens quickly so before finishing with a spatula the surface is moistened caring viewers who wish to support the ultra low cost construction methods implemented on the pesni yoshi kasyaka channel can do so via the sponsorship button on youtube viewers from russia contributing to the development of low-cost technologies can use the boosty service the link is under the video this is not the first time my wife has actively joined in decorating our structures women often engage in rather useless hobbies for example painting on this path design however allows such hobbies to be turned into real benefits also these paths might replace useless children's coloring books with useful ones don't judge us harshly we are not professionals but ordinary enthusiasts of building things but i must note that from project to project at least the form of natural stone imitation is getting better and better for me this time i came to a simple solution only three seam lines should meet at any point on the future path rather than four it looks decent this way i smooth out all sharp corners i draw the seams with a piece of bent wire i control myself so that i don't subconsciously draw something indecent inspired by the current global situation such home creativity really helps to detach from everything a watchful enemy reading these lines generated by my brain activity could learn everything about me i stopped watching tv long ago but it still feels uneasy the more i draw the more i want to draw only good things thoughts are returning to normal the work pieces are now being produced as fast as hot cakes usually garden paths and grass lawns are two complementary landscape features thanks to the font and spinoplex we have a decent supply of sun warmed water during dry weeks watering the garden and grass became much more convenient weak pressure in the system no longer limits irrigation consequently our grass is starting to look like a lawn to make it look even better i decided to use not only watering but also the power of real fertilizers vertica lawn autumn mineral fertilizer is a complex granular fertilizer with a prolonged effect it contains all necessary macro and micronutrients in an optimal ratio around the house for thousands of dollars project is a blind area hidden under the grass the grass is in its first year it needs feeding increased phosphorus and potassium content ensures good tillering of grass mixtures and promotes a strong root system it ensures good overwintering and overall high lawn preservation the area near the goose is the yard center it must be fed without fail for many years garden grass has mulched our productive high raised beds it is time not only to take but to repay the debt to the grass in september it gets cooler and with the arrival of autumn rains it is the optimal time for establishing a new lawn or maintaining an existing one after this the lawn needs to be watered thoroughly at the same time i water the grass in the ispinoplex composter with the onset of october one must think about preparing the existing lawn for winter it is the perfect time to apply autumn phosphorus potassium fertilizers as a supplement and this is how the font can be emptied without a bottom hole and grass will repay the kindness elements in vertica lawn autumn stimulate grass root formation and strengthen cell tissue increasing winter hardiness and resistance to diseases i am leaving a link to vertica lawn autumn under the video visit and buy i follow the marked thin lines but try to draw the pavers in slightly different sizes after a short break the ancient pagan ritual continued applying the stone texture to the nearly 10 meter path took only one and a half bags of tile adhesive you can put in a lot of effort and give the surface an absolutely incredible look i clean the set stones first with a spatula and then with a wire brush i try to use the simplest possible approach minimum labor with maximum aesthetic output my wife is getting into the flow of the creative process the cheapest white facade paint is used along with about five tints to give the stones different colors i am finishing the texture application on the final element of the path adjacent to the font this time we decided to bring the path right up to it our space under the canopy became like an artist's studio with canvases set out here are the simple materials and tools a pair of construction brushes and dish sponges i am starting the path layout two segments are already complete here is the material estimate for one path element 1.2 meters long and 90 centimeters wide one and a half sheets of three centimeters p e n o p l e x comfort three square meters of fiberglass mesh about 10 kilograms of plaster mix and four kilograms of tile adhesive very little paint and varnish a few grams of adhesive foam that is all i proceed with tinting the paving stones black by multiplying by the material cost in your area you will find the exact prime cost a cord is indispensable for setting straight lines p n o p l e x can be bought at any hardware store or online link is under the video a board edged garden bed was recently removed here due to the high yield of the others the spot is overgrown with random grass and i don't mind removing the top layer of turf my wife is lightening the stone even professional facade workers could envy her speed now all because a woman's hobby was simply channeled in the right direction i think my wife would hardly have agreed to paint a horizontally laid path i am testing the simplest path laying method which until now existed only in my head it seems to be working i remember tamping sand when making a path from heavy natural stone and i realized that i really want to eliminate this operation in the new path isn't it just like a countertop such path elements should last even if they have only two support points let alone lying on the ground a friend of mine tried to make a load-bearing beam from p n o p l e x rushing to call himself a pioneer he failed because he didn't realize that one shouldn't make beams from this material but floor slabs most likely he just could not get a feel for this wonderful material you must love xps you must think in terms of it i covered everything with a reliable but cheap tinted antiseptic acrylic stone varnish it is also worth noting that such absolutely no expenses for foundation preparation which can often exceed the cost of the surface itself when installing such paths anyone can feel like arnold schwarzenegger gaining neighbor's respect by being as strong as iron arnie seeing how easily you move what looks like concrete slabs even an unkind neighbor will stop openly showing their hostility and a kind neighbor will be happy a strong person wooden sidewalks called mastkey in russ also support this method the oldest boardwalks in russia are located in baliki novgorod in our case light but fickle wood is replaced by an equally light and low maintenance material in terms of operation surely many understand how important it is for implementing low-cost domestic construction methods to have a working personal vehicle in the previous video on the pesni yoshi kasyaka channel the body of our 15 year old dodge was repaired the video took a month and a half to film i tried to visually show and explain in detail how much effort money and time it took to properly restore a rusty car for those who haven't seen it i am leaving a link under the video by the way foam was also found in the american car there we go see what's here foam yes it is the best material reliable i know it sounds like a joke but these paths can even be rented out for events such as outdoor ceremonies the ultra innovative path now faces the test of time so give a big thumbs up subscribe to the pesni yoshi kasyaka channel subscribe to my zen tiktok and instagram all links are under the video click the bell icon too and then i will definitely keep you informed may peace prevail worldwide thank you