Make an Urbanite Path with Recycled Concrete (how-to)
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- In this video, I'll show you exactly how I repurposed broken concrete (urbanite) to create a new garden path in one weekend. This is a step-by-step, how-to approach that shows my experience with the material. Best of all, it was accomplished for only $100.00 USD. The video fast-forwards through the tedious stuff and slows down to make important points and tips. It did rain during the making of this video, which proved to be challenging, and also got me soaking wet.
--Video Contents--
0:00 - Make an Urbanite Path with Recycled Concrete INTRO
0:22 - Broken Concrete Materials and Forms
0:50 - Tools
1:03 - Path Set Up
1:13 - Play Sand Used
1:20 - Leveling Each Block
1:41 - Laying Stones in Place
2:00 - Tips for working with Urbanite
2:39 - Removing Unwanted Material
3:00 - Chiseling Concrete to Fit
5:24 - Sand Between Blocks
7:11 - Using Quickcrete for Urbanite Path
8:58 - Using Prybar to Level Stones
10:34 - Creating Channels for Water to Run Off
11:07 - Path is Walkable
11:40 - Removing Form Boards - Jak na to + styl
This is perfect!! I have a ton in my backyard and thought I would need to pay to have it removed...now I'm gonna build with it lol thank you fir the ideas.
I’m working on a similar project. Using sand and drainage gravel between the concrete blocks. Hardest part is fitting things together for me. It’s so heavy to work with. I’m a senior and over weight but it’s worth the effort.
You are a teacher by nature. Thank you very much !
Looks really nice!
Thank you you have made this so simple and easy to do.
Glad it was helpful!
way to go :). I have used BC for a 10' x 12' patio. We filled in the cracks with pea gravel, should have gone with motor and put the pea gravel as a finish. It has weeds in the spaces.
Good job Good work 💪👷👏👍
Thanks ✌
This is hard work but well done.
Nice outcome also, you did all the critical thinking beforehand which is what most people don’t do!
Great path making. I am trying to do something similiar at the bottom of my garden and am re- using broken bits of concrete. But unfortunately i am unable to afford cement although i have a bit sand that will do for underneath the concrete pieces. An idea i have thought of to stop weeds growing through the path is to put a lining of some sort down first. I am intending on using pond liner. Thanks for this video.
You can do it! Pond liner should work!
Well done! Is there any plan to raise the ground a little to the path, or will it protrude above the garden?
Looking forward to more of your vids!
Just putting down a little mulch next to it.
How has it held up? I'm planning to do a patio like this. I'm wondering about weeds growing up through it.
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Uff no mask with all that concrete dust? That shit will turn your lungs to concrete!!!! 😭
Yup. It did. Wear a mask.
That was my thought also but thank you so so much for sharing this video. I have done this project at another place and absolutely loved it but you took things to the next level of instruction. Great video and it looks absolutely stunning. Thank you for your tutorial Adam. 💡