I need raw steel edging install advice
caitlin622
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Patio edging heaving - need advice on repair
Comments (1)You need to prep the area under the edging just like you did the patio - something coarse and well-packed for drainage, going to below frost line. If you are going to go to all that trouble, dig it out, and pour a concrete edging and mortar some bricks to it....See MoreLandscape edging - need advice please
Comments (7)To me this is an easy fix. Your landscaper was going for an "English" or trenched edge to the beds. When done properly and maintained well, this is a gorgeous, clean, classic look. To clean up the bed edges you can use a manual edger or you can use a shovel (straight down at the edge to make a new, clean cut in the sod). In order to cover the drainage pipe, just bring that bed edge out a few more inches and cover it up more with mulch. The dark mulch was a good choice especially as the black drainage pipe will disappear into it. I wouldn't be averse to actually extending the pipe even further from the house if possible/practical, either, but that might just be my own water issues talking! If you look carefully at the level of the lawn just in front of the end of the pipe, it's actually higher than the outlet of the pipe, so water could potentially flow back INTO your bed and toward your house, which you do not want. Try to make sure you give the water a lower spot to run towards....See MoreNeed advice on installing a brick edging for shrubs!!
Comments (5)I put in a brick edge around many of my beds and borders last summer. I used the Curve-rite aluminium edging between the lawn and the bricks to keep the grass from invading the bricks and bed. I set the bricks on top of a couple of inches of compacted screenings. So far, it seems to be working well but I'm watching closely to make sure that grass doesn't make it over the top of the metal edge. I like the look and waited years to do it - until I thought the beds were in their final shape. Of course, immediately after I did it, I started thinking that some of the beds needed to be a different shape... but I'l live with them as they are now.......See MoreNiche edge options -Advice needed
Comments (22)Yeah, I saw what looks like Hydroban or something like that in the subsequent pictures, but nonetheless nails below the curb are a no-no.... The pan liner is the primary waterproofing membrane and that is compromised with a nail puncture. You can't rely on the secondary waterproofing layer 'hydroban' or what ever it is 100% to prevent leaking through to the cement board in my opinion. In the other pictures, it didn't seem like all the seams were taped and mudded with thinset before application of the liquid. Also besides that, a liquid membrane has to be applied according the manufacturers instructions, including a spec for thickness of the membrane. Painting on one coat is usually not enough. I think the next company you have coming in will verify this and you should get as many opinions as you can. Was the pan ever flood tested before the tile was set? If not maybe your next guys could do that. Basically you insert a plug into the shower drain, fill it up with water, leave it for 24hrs or longer... if the water level doesn't change, and you don't observe water leaking into walls you might be OK. But in my opinion the pan wasn't done correctly....See MoreDeb
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