Hi everyone,
I have about 250 regular, red house bricks on my garage that I inherited with the house. I'd like to put them to good use in the garden.
Was thinking of laying them down as a border between my garden and the lawn. Question is - do I need to put down a sand or gravel base before I lay the bricks? My soil is just marginally on the clay side. Not sandy at all.
Whadda ya think? Can I get away without the base?
TIA! Sally
Sorry, I meant *IN* my garage. *grin*
I live where we have freezes in Winter, and everyone here puts a base under the stones or bricks. Regardless of whether you have to deal with freezing, I think it would be very difficult to get a nice level border without some sort of base.
Gravel isn't particularly suited for this (although if you want a good thick base you can use gravel and then put crushed stone on it), and sand washes away too easily. So here we use crushed stone, which has a consistency like very rough sand, but stays in place pretty well. Sand is often swept over the bricks as a final step, where it fills the spaces between stones, but has to be redone once in awhile as it does wash away.
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