Entrance to the plot on the slope. How to make a platform (parking) for a car in the country with your own hands. Pouring concrete mortar

Good day! Tell me how (or what is better) to make a check-in at the dacha, if the site is sloping?

Evgeny, Obninsk.

Hello, Evgeny from Obninsk!

/ You have a good city, but have not been in it since 1968, even lost contact with the relatives who lived there. /

Entry to areas with a slope is done in two ways. Either in full accordance with the slope of the terrain, or by cutting the soil in such a way that a parking place for a car is obtained, surrounded on three sides by soil, which is reinforced with walls. The second is done less often, because it is labor intensive, especially with large relief slopes.

In the simplest versions, everything is done in the usual way. The entrance is planned, which includes its marking, soil removal in full accordance with the slope to a depth of about 15-20 centimeters. That is, it is necessary to remove the root system of the grass. After that, the entire area is backfilled with a layer of sand or ASG of at least 10 centimeters.

Then the lateral sides of the entrance are made out with formwork from edged boards with their fastening to vertically hammered pegs. After that, the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe entrance is poured with stone battle or rubble. For greater strength, welded mesh cards (0.5 * 2 meters) are laid over the entire area with an overlap of its edges. And from above, concrete is poured at the rate of approximately three parts of sand and two parts of gravel for the proportion of cement.

A layer of solution from 5 to 10 centimeters. With a long rule (it is possible from a profiled pipe of a small section), the pouring surface is leveled.

To avoid cracking of the coating over its entire width, every two linear meters of the area are laid on the edge wooden slats not less than a centimeter thick. Wood is pretreated bituminous mastic... The top surface of the battens should be flush with the concrete of the covering.

In the simplest cases, a layer of material is simply poured over the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe race. It can be gravel, crushed stone, small stone breakage, etc. That is, what cannot be washed away by streams of rainwater.

It is desirable to compact the material well, in part this is done with the help of a car, repeatedly rolling on the poured material. The thickness of the coating layer ranges from five to 10 centimeters, depending on the financial capabilities of the owner.

In some cases, when the soil is prone to subsidence in its characteristics, after a few years, the operation of filling new portions of the material should be repeated. Lime crushed stone (a distinctive feature is its white color) it is undesirable to use it, although it is cheap, but its maximum may be sufficient in some cases for no more than five years.

Sometimes along the sides of the road, drainage grooves are made for drainage. They are also covered with the same materials.

So nothing complicated.

Other questions about garden and sidewalk paths:

Sidewalk paths

Do-it-yourself parking from crushed stone in the country is the simplest option for a country parking. This type of building material does not crack and is perfectly water-permeable. The only drawback is that it is difficult to clean during the winter due to the uneven surface. Parking without a canopy will have to be periodically cleared of fallen leaves. Motorists give preference to him for three reasons:

• easily and better than other coatings it is constructed on the site;
• work is done very quickly;
• the cheapest option for arranging a summer cottage;
• suitable for all types of soil.

Knowing how to make parking in the country with your own hands, you can significantly save your budget.

For parking, you should choose the most comfortable spot, usually this is a site near the house. The car will receive additional shelter from the wind and lateral precipitation, and fruits and vegetables grown in the country are more conveniently transferred to the car from the premises.

If there is no video camera or dog, then the thieves will not risk opening the car standing near the window of the house. The downside is that you have to take several meters of the garden. If the summer cottage is guarded, then it is better to allocate a place for the site at the entrance gate. In this case, you do not need to create a wide road to the house, you can get by with paths.

When choosing a place for parking, you need to remember that the entrance should not only be convenient, but also have a sufficient view. The level of the platform above the road will have to be raised if it is planned to be built in the lowland. Additional soil will be required for elevation.

The dimensions of the parking lot will depend on the number of vehicles for which this site is intended. For one car small size a length of 5 m is sufficient with a width of no more than 3 m. To park 2 cars, the area must be doubled. At the selected place, dimensions are determined, marking is done.

Before parking, you need to choose a convenient area. Work begins with clearing the place and performing the markup. Parking in the country is usually open or equipped with a shed. A full-fledged closed garage structure is also acceptable.

First, the top layer of soil is removed to a depth of 30 cm, removing the root system of existing weeds so that they cannot germinate in the future. Otherwise, the structure of the parking area covering will be damaged. The order of the work is as follows:

• marking the perimeter, marking the corners with wooden stakes, pulling twine along them;
• leveling the surface, installing a sand cushion on it with a layer thickness of at least 10-12 cm;
• thorough compaction of the sand embankment, previously moistened with water to increase the degree of its compaction;
• laying a concrete or wooden curb to maintain the shape of the parking lot;
• covering the entire area with geotextiles to prevent weed growth;
• backfilling of rubble;
• laying out concrete slabs on the building material for easy entry and exit;
• drainage from plastic or metal pipes to drain water around the parking space, if the car is supposed to be washed.

The parking lot should be made of crushed granite only; it can be replaced with river gravel. Lime crushed stone must not be poured. He, when wet, will turn the parking lot into a dirty mess.

Its lower layer is filled with crushed stone with a fraction of up to 60 mm, and the upper one - up to 20 mm. The layers are carefully compacted. The upper fine fraction of crushed stone will make it easy to level the surface, all voids will be filled. It is imperative to provide for a slope, which should be 3-4 cm wide from the center to the edges, so that drainage is carried out, but it is better to drain.

Compaction of the scattered layer with manual bayonetting will help make parking more convenient. The car will not slip, get stuck and create a rut. A high-density film or nonwoven backing, as well as geotextiles, will prevent the soil from mixing with the crushed rock.
The curb will prevent rubble from creeping over the site, and will ensure the stability of the parking perimeter.
But getting under way on a site covered with rubble is required without slipping. This can compromise the integrity of the surface layer of the coating.

Characteristics of crushed stone for a car site

When arranging a parking lot from rubble in the country with your own hands, you can reduce financial costs to the lowest possible level. When buying a material, you need to know its exact volume, taking into account shrinkage when compacting layers. A good bulk material must meet the following parameters:

1. Purification degree. The crushed stone must have good drainage properties and not contain a lot of dust.
2. Abrasion. The appearance of a track in places of constant pressure from the wheels is possible due to the destruction of fractions, but this is relevant for crushed stone.
3. Maximum frost resistance of the material. The most practical experts consider gravel crushed stone, which has average characteristics.

Manufacturers produce the following types of crushed stone:

1. Limestone. Its bottom layer will very quickly turn into powder, and after rain - into a dirty mass. A parking space covered with such material will soon be overgrown with weeds.
2. River gravel. This parking cover will not crumble and crumble, it is perfectly water-permeable. The shallow embankment evens out the surface well, penetrating into voids. The lower layer is filled with fractions up to 60 mm, and the upper one - up to 20 mm.

Calculation of the required coverage

How much bulk material is required can be calculated independently. To do this, multiply the area of \u200b\u200bthe parking space by the thickness of its layer. With average use, 20 cm of crushed stone is enough. But you need to make a small margin. It will have to be filled up with a possible soil subsidence. The rest will come in handy as a natural filter in landscaping.

Every car enthusiast should know how to make homemade parking in a suburban area. Crushed stone parking for a car in the country will always be durable and strong. The coating guarantees the absence of ice in the winter, does not require operating costs.

At the dacha, it is not always advisable to equip a garage for transport. A more affordable and easier solution is to equip your own mini-parking. It can be of two types:

• open. Such parking for a car in the country is a flat, hard surface. This is the simplest solution;
• closed. The site is complemented by a canopy or canopy. Such solutions are usually practiced near any buildings (barn, house, etc.) to which a visor can be attached.

Ecoparking

Lawn grass is used as a covering. It is used to prevent tire marks and damage to vegetation. Before making eco-parking on the lawn, remove the top layer of soil, equip a cushion of rubble and then lay the geogrid. A fertile layer is poured into it and sown. Such parking is environmentally friendly, does not violate the view of the green landscape, and looks organically against the background of ordinary lawns.

Crushed stone site

Before making a parking lot for a car in the country in this way, you also need to remove the fertile layer, fill it with rubble. On soft soils, it is advisable to familiarize yourself with how to lay, and use this material in order to reinforce the soil. Sidewalk curbs are installed along the perimeter of the site, then they are backfilled with rubble (layer thickness - 15 cm or more), tamping.

It is laid on tamped crushed stone or sand-cement pad, using a rubber mallet or other similar tool. A sidewalk curb is laid along the perimeter.

Urban residents who have a dacha in the suburbs, as a rule, get to it by private transport. This is where the question arises of how to properly equip a part of the territory for a parking space where you can park your car.

Putting a car on the lawn or turning the soil into mud after rain is not a bright prospect. In such cases, seasoned summer residents are advised to concrete the area for the car with their own hands.

Concrete parking

This method of solving the problem with parking equipment can be attributed to the budget options in comparison with paving stones, which also needs to be prepared for the foundation. In addition, over time, street tiles can crack, and weeds germinate in the seams between them, which disrupts the appearance of the site and the yard in the country looks sloppy.

At first glance, it may seem that it will not be easy to do such work with your own hands, but as practice shows, even an inexperienced beginner can fill the parking lot for a car.
The concrete platform for the machine is assembled in several stages:

1. Preparing the place for concrete and laying the "pillow".
2. Installation of lighthouses and wooden formwork.
3. Reinforcement of the working base.
4. Preparation of mortar mass.
5. Pouring process.

Beginning of work

Before starting concreting the site, it is necessary to outline the boundaries of the area where the mortar will be poured. It is important to take into account that all surface irregularities (pits, bumps) will violate the dense structure of the screed and increase the consumption of material - therefore, the territory must be leveled.

If a parking space is adjacent to a car entrance, it must be laid at a certain angle. This is done so that rainwater drains off the site and does not stagnate on the screed.

Materials and tools

The first step is to remove all the debris, peel off the grass and compact the soil well. Then you will need to prepare the materials and tools necessary for the work. To do all the work correctly, we need:

• water;
• sand;
• frost resistant cement (F200);
• fittings;
• boards;
• metallic profile (lighthouses);
• level;
• concrete mixer (optional).

Formwork device

It is impossible to pour concrete on a flat surface without formwork. This special construction creates the shape of the screed as it dries. On a horizontal section, wooden walls fixed with pegs will prevent the building mixture from spreading, and concreting will be reliable.

For an optimal site for a car, a 15 cm layer of mortar is enough, and this amount of material will not create much pressure on the formwork, so it does not need additional reinforcement.

Beacons

According to the technology, it is necessary to concrete a horizontal surface using beacons that fix wooden planks... Plasterboard profile (UD) is usually used as beacons. They fix it on a cement-sand mortar (proportion 1: 4), which is laid out in slides and a metal profile is pressed into them. It is better to do this work under the level.

The installation of formwork beacons is carried out in a specific sequence.

First of all, pins made of round metal rods are installed in the corners. A thread is pulled between them and goes down to the notches previously applied to the pins.

The first thread is knitted arbitrarily, and the next one is attached with the help of a level in relation to the previous one. A pair of transverse threads is knitted between the stretched landmarks. In places where they touch, beacons will be installed. It should be remembered that the optimal distance between the beacons is 0.5 m.

Sand pillow

To correctly concreting a parking space, a sand cushion must be created. It can be formed both before the installation of the formwork, and after, there are no strict restrictions, and the sequence of such a procedure is performed at the discretion of the master.

The only difference is that when laying agrofibre, which retains sand and allows moisture to pass through, it is better to do this with finished formwork... It is more convenient to spread the fiber according to the “pillowcase” principle, which will prevent the sand from shifting under the weight of the concrete.

Before proceeding with the installation of agrofibre, it is necessary to carefully compact the sand and spill it with water. Level the sand embankment with any available device, which is usually used when installing paving slabs.

Base reinforcement

Before starting the reinforcement, a 5 cm layer of crushed stone is poured onto the sand cushion from above and compacted. The reinforcement reinforces the concrete structure, therefore, when constructing a platform for a car, you cannot do without it.
The reinforcement procedure is performed in one of two ways. You can knit metal rods with wire, creating a kind of honeycomb. An easier way to strengthen the solution is to buy a special grate.

The second option is suitable for places that will not be heavily loaded. Only metal rods and wire are used to fill the foundations. The concreting of the site for the car is carried out using a reinforcing mesh with rods, the cross-section of which ranges from 8.5 mm to 10.5 mm.

Knitting mesh

The reinforcement frame is made directly at the installation site. The rods are placed crosswise and tied with wire at the docking points. It is strongly not recommended to use welding to connect the reinforcement, as it will deprive the frame of mobility. This, in turn, will deform and damage the reinforcing base.

Pouring concrete mortar

After laying the reinforcing mesh, concrete is poured. As mentioned earlier, in some cases, the solution is mixed with crushed stone, and sometimes crushed stone is laid under the reinforcement on its own, and only then they begin to concrete.

Pouring mortar with rubble

To fill the area for a car, it is necessary to prepare in accordance with the proportions. According to the technology, cement, crushed stone and sand are mixed in a ratio of about 1: 3: 2.5 (to obtain at least m300). It is worth taking cement grade m400. To facilitate the laborious process, it is better to use a concrete mixer in the work. To begin with, pour a bucket of water into it (water should be 2 times less than cement) and fill in the rest of the components. You need to stir until the sand is evenly distributed in the total mass.

To do this, the rail is installed on the lighthouses and pulled along the filled mass, pulling the excess solution onto itself. For the best effect, this procedure is repeated several times until the surface is perfectly flat.

Cement-sand mortar

If crushed stone was poured in front of the reinforcing mesh, then it is not necessary to add it to the solution. Cement and sand (1: 1) are poured into the concrete mixer, and then water is added until the required consistency is obtained. In this case, the solution should not be as thick as in the first option, otherwise it will not seep through the gravel layer. The entire pouring procedure is identical to that described above.

In order for the concrete not to crack due to the temperature drop due to expansion, it is necessary to leave the grooves.

They are cut with a grinder after or done with a tool until the solution has frozen.

Surface cleaning and maintenance of the mixture

The poured area can be covered with a film so that the water does not evaporate and the concrete does not crack. In case of hot weather, the stove should be additionally watered.

After a couple of days, when the mortar has finally set and will not stick, it is necessary to clean up all the irregularities and bumps with a construction trowel. On this, the concreting of the parking lot can be considered completed.

Check-in and a parking lot for a car or a family car park is an important element for any summer cottage. It would seem that there is nothing difficult in creating a parking lot: I covered the site with fine gravel or screenings, or laid paving slabs on a layer of compacted sand - and the parking is ready.

Reinforced concrete pipe at the entrance to the site.

But what to do when the site is in a swamp, and the peat soil is noticeably compressed even under your feet, not to mention the wheels of a car? The author got just such a peat land plot. Garden house the site was built on reinforced concrete piles, which cut through the peat to a dense caked sandy soil.

But not spend money on installing piles and casting a grillage plate as a parking lot? The author decided to use another, less well-known method of building on peat for the arrangement of parking on peat - the method of constant "floating" surcharge of a compressible soil mass.

Required tool:

• shovel;
• angle grinder;
• welding machine;
• brushes;
• drill screwdriver;
• ramming.

Materials for the construction of the site for the car:

1. screening out granite;
2. crushed stone;
3. geotextile with a density of 200 g / m 2;
4. rabitz;
5. drainage pipes in the filter 110 mm;
6. drainage pipe tees;
7. cement-sand mixture;
8. limestone slabs;
9. profile pipe 60 x 60 mm, 40 x 20 mm;
10. welding electrodes;
11. roofing screws, drills for metal;
12. sheets of cellular polycarbonate 8 mm thick;
13. connecting profile and sealing tape for polycarbonate sheets;
14. paint for metal.

Getting to work: making a check-in to the site

First of all, it was necessary to prepare a drive to the site, which is separated from the road by a deep ditch. We laid a 40 cm diameter reinforced concrete pipe in the ditch, filled it with sand, tamped the sand and laid a layer of rubble on top.

Instead of a reinforced concrete pipe, you can use a two-layer corrugated plastic pipe: it is cheaper than concrete, and you can bring it on the trunk of a car.

A plastic pipe can also be used to repair a broken concrete or asbestos-cement pipe. In this case, a plastic pipe of a smaller diameter is inserted into the lumen of the damaged pipe. At the entrance to the site, curbs were cast from concrete to keep sand and gravel from falling into the drainage ditch. The ends of the curbs were beveled at an angle of approximately 15 degrees to prevent damage to the car's body when taxiing on a relatively narrow gardening road.

Plastic pipe at the entrance to the site.

Parking pit, lined with geotextile, with 110 mm drain pipes in filters.

We load peat

The peat loading method makes it possible to get out of an insoluble situation not only during the construction of parking lots, but also when, due to the large depth of peat, it is impossible to build a traditional foundation for a house. The method of loading peat soil was widely used in the USSR in the construction of roads in swamps and is currently used in the construction of houses on swampy soils both in Scandinavia and in Malaysia, where there are also many swampy soils.

The loading method as a method of building foundations on peat soils is recommended in paragraph 6A23 SP 50-101-2004 "Design and construction of foundations and foundations of buildings and structures."

Construction by the classical surcharge method is divided into two stages: in the first stage, which lasts 8-12 months, the peat is compacted under the action of a mass of sand. After the completion of the compaction, construction of the foundation begins. However, we are not building a house and can afford not to wait for peat to be compacted.

For the device of constant soil loading, we create a "bath" in peat with a depth of 0.3 meters and a size of 5 by 9 meters, which we will fill with sand and granite screenings. A significant mass of bulk materials (about 15 tons) will compress the peat soil as much as possible and create a solid, stable surface. To prevent the sand from gradually filtering into the spongy peat under the influence of precipitation, we cover the excavated pit with durable road geotextile with a density of 200 g / m2, which allows water to pass through well, but retains sand particles or screenings. At the bottom of the excavation trenches were pre-dug for laying perforated drainage pipes with a diameter of 110 mm, which will quickly divert water from the surface of the future parking lot into a roadside ditch.

We cast reinforced concrete curbs at the entrance to the site.

We connected the drainage pipes with tees and brought the drainage pipe at a slope into the ditch, protecting the opening of the pipe with a double layer of geotextile, fixed to the pipe with a wire in a polymer sheath. Now neither frogs nor algae will clog the pipe lumen. We covered the drainage pipes in the trenches with a layer of rubble. On top of the backfill, we rolled out rolls of a chain-link mesh, which will act as an improvised road mesh - to evenly distribute the loads from the wheels of cars. Thanks to the load-bearing mesh, the parking surface will not sag too much under the weight, even with a relatively thin backfill.

Laying stone slabs on the parking surface.

Filling the parking surface with gravel.

Installation of a parking area on a slope.

We put another layer of geotextile on top of the mesh. Then we covered a layer of sand and on top of it - granite screenings. This bulk material costs one and a half times less than crushed stone, has more high density, and thanks to the admixture of fine sand fraction, it is perfectly compacted under the influence of precipitation. To speed up the process, screenings can be compacted using a vibratory plate. But we used a different method of compaction: rolling back and forth across the site in a car. It took us two dropout dump trucks to fill the pit.

Dropout can be left as is topcoat parking: it is perfectly water-permeable and has an attractive appearance (all paths in the parks of St. Petersburg are made of pink granite dropout). The only downside to screening is that it gets stuck in the grooved shoe sole and is carried into the house. To get rid of this problem, you can lay limestone slabs on top of the screenings in the parking lot or sprinkle it with a layer of fine gravel.

It must be said that peat really continued to compact under a relatively small parking surcharge for several more years. So after three years we had to add another dropout dump truck to the parking surface.

If desired, the entire peat load could be done with sand, and a reinforced concrete slab 12 cm thick could be cast over the sand, as we did in another area.

During the construction of another parking lot on the slope, in order to prevent slipping of the sand and gravel mixture, it was necessary to pre-strengthen the slope with piles, tying them with a reinforced concrete grillage-box, and only then backfill it with soil.

Parking on the basis of a monolithic reinforced concrete slab on top of a sandy loading cushion.

Canopy support posts nailed into the pile foundation.

We build a canopy over the parking with our own hands

The carport over the parking lot is very practical: it protects the car well from rain, hail, snow and scorching sun rays. One of the most popular canopy designs is a welded metal frame made of shaped pipes, covered with translucent polycarbonate sheets.

A metal profile pipes with a cross section of 60 x 60 mm served as the basis for the canopy. We painted the metal posts with Hammerayt paint and cast them into reinforced concrete drill piles 2 m deep, which will serve as the foundation for the shed.

The load-bearing structure of the canopy frame has been reinforced with braces, which provide rigidity to the entire canopy structure and save material on additional support legs.

To further strengthen the structure of the canopy racks, the racks are reinforced with welded shaped pipes of a smaller section, which remain after cutting the parts for the canopy roof frame.

We welded the roof rafters of the canopy from T-shaped shaped pipes. This design will provide them with greater rigidity.

Reinforcement of the steel frame canopy races
Additional reinforcement of the racks with the remnants of shaped pipes.

The improvement of any suburban area begins with the formation of paths and areas. Their layout sets the foundation for the entire landscape. That is why special attention should be paid to their construction.

Do you need to park your car on the territory of your private house? Tired of this constant dirt and potassium in your yard? In this case, you should look towards the rubble site. After all, constantly leaving the car outside the site is not a way out of this situation. In some cases, the roads there are narrow, which makes it difficult to easily pass. In addition to all this, it would be nice to have a flat and clean area near the summer kitchen. It will always be possible to organize picnics with barbecue or barbecue here.

The Dachny Utmost Plus company is ready to solve all these problems. We are ready to organize on your territory a very convenient and practical platform for a crushed stone car.

The approximate cost of arranging parking lots and crushed stone sites on a garden plot is shown in the table below:

How is the site or parking lot organized?

The technology for the formation of this place is based on the manufacture of a depression. Its dimensions directly depend on how many layers of materials you plan to lay there. After the deepening for the future site of crushed stone in the country house is made, you should proceed to its compaction. This operation is carried out using a special vibrating plate or a conventional roller.

The next step is to create a sand layer. In most cases, its thickness is about 15 centimeters. The sand must be well leveled over the entire area with an even layer and then compacted. In order to avoid mixing of layers, a special universal material is used - geotextile. After that, you can safely start filling the groove with rubble. The thickness of this layer is also about 15 cm. Well, the stone itself should be about 2-5 centimeters.

The separation of the site from crushed stone for a car is carried out using a curb stone or a wooden bar. It all depends on your preferences.

However, a site for a car in a crushed stone country house requires the most basic initial stage - this is the drawing up of planning and marking. You definitely need to thoroughly think over the configuration itself, calculate the quantities of all the necessary materials and only after that start making it. This is done so that in the future you do not face various problems, and you do not have to redo everything again. Also, a platform for a car in a crushed stone country house should have a slight slope and a drainage system. This allows you to safely drain surface water. Compliance with all these simple rules will allow you to create a reliable and durable parking in the country from rubble with a curb.

The specialists of the Dachny Utz Plus company are always ready to come to you, make all the necessary measurements with calculations and build a high-quality and inexpensive site for rubble. We give an official guarantee for all types of services provided. Many of our clients have already been convinced of the quality, reliability and durability of our work.

The cost of parking from rubble

It is extremely difficult to call the final price of these types of work by phone. This is influenced by many different factors:

• your location;
• the size of the future site;
• soil features;
• number of layers and selected materials.

If we talk about the average cost, then parking from rubble in the country (15 cm of sand, geotextiles, 15 cm of rubble) will be 1,500 rubles per 1 square meter (taking into account all materials).

Before starting the construction of a future driveway for a car in the country, first of all, it is necessary to determine its dimensions, which should ideally be 2.5-3 meters. Too wide a check-in is hardly justified in a small summer cottage, when it is desirable to save meters. On average, the length of a car is about 2.5 meters, respectively, the length of the drive should be four meters. Based on this, the dimensions of the site are 3.5 by 4 meters.

An example of a covered parking in the country

After preparing the arrival plan, you can begin to calculate the cost of building materials. To do this, you need to decide what kind of surface for the drive will be used: asphalt or concrete. If you decide to use asphalt pavement, then keep in mind that you will have to tinker a lot with it, additionally using an asphalt roller. It takes a lot of effort and time to complete your own high-quality paving. It is for this reason that many people choose a simple concrete pavement for their work.

First of all, you need to make a foundation pit. Pegs should be used to mark the race itself, then to dig a pit about 20 centimeters deep. Then the surface of the base should be leveled under the coating, and then formwork should be made around the entire perimeter of the pit. The formwork can be built using plywood or ordinary boards.

Formwork installation scheme for parking lot filling

Then you need to make a base of sand about 10 centimeters high. The amount of sand that will be consumed is about 4 cubic meters. For arrangement concrete base it will take four cubic meters concrete mixture. When building a driveway, you will also need to drain it, which can be done using a specially designed basalt mesh.

But if you approach the device of this important system professionally, then drain pipes are used. If you look from the point of view of professional construction, then you need to lay drainage pipes: they hide in a sandy base.

The top layer of the sand base is made from a dry cement mixture.

After preparing the pit, you can start pouring sand into it. The result should be a coating about 8 centimeters deep. Now you need to spill the sand with water and tamp it.

To do this, use a special ramming tool or an ordinary wooden block with two handles. The remaining sand must be mixed with dry cement mixture (just one bag is enough). After this, the resulting cement-sand mixture is poured onto the first layer, leveled and tamped.

On this we can say that the work on the foundation of the future arrival has been completed. After that, concrete work can be carried out.

A basalt drainage mesh is laid on the finished base, after which a concrete layer can be poured.

The top layer of the coating should be leveled, and it is better to do this with a special construction vibrator. In order for the water to flow down the sides, the coating is then profiled. Such a surface drainage of water is made using special plastic trays.

Check-in for a car in the country is ready. Now he needs to be allowed to settle for 20 days.

Many of the summer residents are concerned that upon arrival they have nowhere to park their car. For this reason, if you are going to go to the country house by car, sooner or later you will have to make a place for the car on the site.

A situation in which there is no parking for a car occurs very often - the car is simply parked near the site and overheats in hot sunbeams... This inconvenience must be eliminated as quickly as possible.

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How to build a budget parking

Arrangement of parking, first of all, should take place at the suburban area itself, and not somewhere beyond its border. In addition, the parking lot should not cause any inconvenience, for example, it should not interfere with children playing on a sports summer cottage. Also, it should not obstruct the passage of other vehicles near your home. Therefore, first you need to equip the entrance to the parking lot, and then just start building it.

The entrance to the site can be equipped with swing or sliding country gates, which can also be installed after all construction works Location on. You can even build a temporary check-in to the cottage with the help of rubble with your own hands. When the entrance to the site is ready, you can start building the parking lot.

You will need for this:

• Sand;
• Gravel;
• Drainage pipes;
• Roof covering.

For a good parking, you need a level and roomy space, where it would be convenient for you to enter the car. For its construction, a variety of materials can be used that will be most convenient for you to use, taking into account the characteristics of your summer cottage. One of these options can be an ordinary one. It is possible to plant it in any soil, and from time to time it is easy to cut it with a lawn mower.

An example of a lawn parking lot for a car

Sand can be used to equip the site - this is not only very comfortable materialbut also very economical. Its consumption for this kind of work is small: the layer of sand for the site should be about 10 centimeters. You can also save money by using gravel for this purpose. They just need to evenly cover the area of \u200b\u200bthe parking lot. Both materials allow for reliable disposal of water. The site will not be afraid even of prolonged rains, because the water in the parking lot practically does not stagnate.

Decorative elements can be a low fence that can be used to surround the parking lot, a small curb, planted nearby ornamental plants or flowers. But the most important thing is that it will protect the car from the sun, rain and snow. By the way, it is much easier to equip a shed than to build a parking lot directly.

In the event that the place for the car is located near the building, it is not difficult to hide it from weather troubles. Several metal pipes are installed in the corners, the "roof" itself is made of the material that you prefer, for example, tarpaulin, film. When the parking lot is located at a considerable distance from the buildings, it is necessary to make an arch, which then needs to be strengthened and covered with roofing materials.

Construction of a capital parking lot

The most reliable and durable construction option will be the construction of a capital parking lot with the development of a project and the possibility of its subsequent decoration. You can not waste time on design, but simply draw the proposed scheme of the future parking, while calculating the costs and the amount of material that will be spent.

It looks like a capital parking on the site

To build a capital parking lot, you need to purchase:

• Concrete mix;
• Sidewalk laying materials;
• Bricks;
• Metal pipes;
• Corners;
• Permanent paint;
• Brushes;
• Roofing materials;
• Shovels;
• Containers for solutions;
• Master OK.

Parking lot construction

Home parking should be built in such a way that moisture from precipitation does not accumulate on it, forming slush, then it good option... This is only possible if it is perfectly flat. Depressions and pits should not be allowed on the surface coating.

When you start laying the coating, you need to have the appropriate knowledge and professional skills, to have special equipment and tools, which can be costly. But the fundamental parking lot for the car in the country fully justifies all the funds invested in it, because it will operate for many years.

Our 115 year old home - view from the yard. Garage posts under the veranda show the slope of the terrain

We bought a house in the village in the early 90s.
The purchase was a perceived needsince the children were growing up, it was necessary to occupy them in the summer, and here there was a river 100 meters away, and a forest with berries and mushrooms. Moreover, my father had bought a house here even earlier, only higher than ours.
The village is thirty-odd courtyards, houses on both sides of the street that rises from the river to the hill.

Our village - our home - "triangle" on the left

Then the main purchase criterion for us was the location of the village and the ability to drive home.

Years have passed, nothing has changed, time has only confirmed us in the correctness of our choice. Of course, it is very romantic to live in Prostokvashin, but you can get there only in summer. And in winter, even 10 m of the road must be cleared of snow. The natives are here in only two houses, six houses are empty and falling apart, the rest are occupied by people like us.

In summer, the village hums and rings with voices. In autumn and winter - ringing silence ... Our auxiliary road was cleaned with a real grader last winter. Hooray! The ice has broken, maybe ... It is not enough that the village is on a slope, so also our houses are located at different heights, so not all residents are able to enter the territory of their site by car. Either the ditch in front of the house gets in the way, then the rise does not.

House - five-walled with a light

Here it is - a copy of our house. I took this photo in a deceased village seven kilometers from us three years ago.

Residential buildings in our area form a single complex with a spacious and roofed courtyard. Hay, tools, and some of the firewood are stored there (most of them are still stored in the woodshed). The place for living creatures is also in ... in the yard. So they say! And it connects the residential part and the yard - the MOST.

Our house does not have such a yard.

The light was removed, the roof was opened, instead of the bridge there was a veranda. In the place of our house there was a post station on the Moscow-Vyatka highway. Every 16 miles they changed horses, rested and set off again.

After Kostroma, it was the second post station in a row. On the territory of the site, we found bells, bells, the remains of harnesses, bridles and horseshoes. How quickly the earth absorbs all traces of the past life, grass and shrubs grow, leaving no trace of the past ...

After the revolution, the house was ruled by a collective farm, and in the 60s it was transferred to a village under construction, and a family of collective farmers settled in the house. And then, like everyone else: the elders died, and their eldest daughter, a city dweller, did not need the village. And ... "Motherland" was sold (as in the movie "Garage" by Eldar Ryazanov). The youngest lived in the house opposite ours. And, of course, the sisters quarreled when dividing the inheritance, so much so that they stopped talking to each other ... The eternal housing issue ...

It’s impossible to find out now how we drove in on horseback in the old days, but we could not drive up to the house, leave the car on the street, as many still do, did not suit us. It is now the fence stands, and the courtyard is covered with thujas, and earlier on this left side of the house there was a slope with a height difference of 3 meters. There was a sharp descent from the foundation area. The only luck was that the distance of 5 meters from the road to the fence was solid, rolled, we did not have to lay a pipe to drain the water and fill it with gravel.

First, we made a fence, just such a transparent one and wanted instead of a rotten picket fence. For the fence, of course, they made a bedding. And went to the "fence" we have one of the August holidays. It would be more correct to start with the main thing - the study of flood and rain waters.

When the snow was melting, there was no opportunity to be here - we worked, and the first visit for the May holidays is already too late. Therefore, they corrected themselves after years, when they began to live here permanently since 2012.

The plot is 3 meters below ours

We studied, read, looked, talked, estimated, learned a lot of new things, calculated. They abandoned the retaining walls, this is too expensive an enterprise. Yes, beautiful, but is such a job worth the candle?

We had to build a retaining wall 60 meters long, since it would stretch along the diagonal of the site, also meandering, increasing its length, because behind the house there was the same sharp slope just behind the blind area.
I have a photograph in town where I was captured squatting on a blind area and laying out carrots to dry on an inclined and very high slope.

Backfilling with screenings behind the house. Below is a house made of stone, there is no fence between us yet.

The blind area behind the house was increased, the husband made a concrete area for rest (of the future, of course). The area of \u200b\u200bthe site made it possible to do without retaining walls and use the method of adding soil by screening.

We found out an interesting thing: for the construction of a retaining wall with a height of 50 cm, its foundation must go deeper to a mark below the annual freezing of the soil. IN middle lane it is 120-140 cm. We have a height difference on the site - 3 meters. This retaining wall with a length of 60 meters will pull at the price of the Great Chinese one, even without taking into account labor costs (we all often do not value our work). And it would have looked ridiculous against the background of a wooden Russian hut. The mountains, I do not argue, are beautiful, but in this case it is like "Pope is a Jew" in the words of the historian Spitsyn.

Final result

Even this photo shows that in addition to the embankment, it was necessary to think over a drainage system, to make concrete paths.

But this is only 2011. Until 2017, it is still a long time ... But we have already erected a fence on the right, covering the collapsed stone house that no one needs, planted 7 thujas (Brabant) to the right of the house along the facade of the fence, 5 sea buckthorns "Dar MGU" and "Chuiskaya", black currants and thorny along the tracks.

The main thing is that I began to develop the embankment, began to plant plants that could themselves withstand the harsh conditions of the slope and strengthen it.

Rockery. First experience. Of course, there is no border tape anymore, then it was necessary to prevent the soil from slipping.

The slope of the relief is more than 15%, that is, with a height difference of 15 cm by running meterare called "pronounced relief". The arrangement of such reliefs is advised to be carried out by specialists. But we went the other way - we did everything ourselves.

The addition of screenings made it possible to abandon the obligatory laying of a system of pipes for drainage during the construction of retaining walls. The lawn, green and pleasant, at the bottom of the embankment is a swampy lowland, but dries up by June. Such drains go from the top of the hill to the bottom, that is, to the river itself through all sections. This season, for the first time in so many years, it was squelching all the time, the year was very damp.

How much bewilderment the locals and friends had, how much disbelief in the result was caused by the gigantic bedding! The explanation is simple - no one does this in our country. The artist neighbor said the same.

Backfilling of the site near the garage, it is then necessary to level it manually with a rake, leaving the shaft along the very edge

I planted two bushes of grafted lilacs of the "Olympiada Kolesnikova" variety and three bushes of the own-rooted "Madame Lemoine" under the veranda right into the screenings. Buzuslovno, added humus, peat to the planting pits, even 2 years in a row mineral fertilizers used, but then stopped. She simply loosened and brought in earth with earthworms from the woods along the projection of the bushes, mulched on top with peat, grass, hay and straw.
Further, 4 more bushes of lilac "Madame Lemoine" and three bushes of mountain ash are planted.

The bushes of lilac and field ash are mulched with lowland peat

The area in front of the garage door has always been used:

The green building in the center of the photo is a woodshed, it will be broken and a new one will be built, and in the 2017 season its twin will appear, because we need a lot of firewood (stove heating, but gas is not expected). We buy a “chip” of 6-meter firewood, my husband saws and chops them himself.

By the way, I unloaded it with pinpoint accuracy 10 cm from the trunk of the Royal apple tree.

Recreation. The husband feeds the tits. Favorite form of clothing))

By the way, she doesn't trust me to put firewood, and I don't mind. They brought us two rolls of rotten straw and unloaded them at the same site. Then we rolled them to the side, such a mess usually does not happen with us, because there should always be an exit for a car from the garage ...

That's what a tech site is for



View from the street

The site on the slope is always windy, so you need windscreens made of trees, bushes or buildings. Lilac has always pleased us, this variety is very unpretentious, grows well, has a spherical crown shape, the bush, as it were, forms itself.
Perhaps it would bloom more luxuriously on black soil.

Spring 2012

But I no longer fertilize with anything, only mulch. Moreover, having used the compost (on the right in the photo below, there is a pumpkin on it), spreading it along the near-trunk circles of new plantings, I did not arrange any more pits or heaps of compost on the site. Now I don't have them at all, I began to look at the plants, at my garden in a different way, it became much more pleasant and easier for me to work on the ground.

Last compost heap on site

"Madame" is blooming



And the "little ones" bloomed. It's 2015

The area in front of the garage door was poured the longest.
A slope, especially an embankment, always requires compaction, landslides and erosion are possible. For example, we will do the right thing on the next visit for a couple of days, and then the showers will “fix” everything in their own way.

The mountain ash-leaved field is also used to strengthen slopes, slopes, ravines.

He's really a "hard worker".

Escapes

Now I am not adding anything to it, but it still gives shoots.
And I also need the bush to sit compactly. After flowering, I cut the panicles and leave them at the foot.

Fieldfare leaves are very decorative from spring to autumn.

I was about to plant new shoots along the embankment along its upper edge, but our "common" plans did not coincide with mine. The husband has set up a technical site here, building materials are brought here. True, the Royalty apple tree still managed to be planted (near the heap of peat on the left), that is, it was in time).

"Thinking over" a new construction site on the site of the compost heap, I watch from the window as the younger copies every movement of the elder. 2014

I planned to plant hosts and astilbe at the foot of the lilac and mountain ash leaves, fortunately, there is a lot of my planting material, but the upcoming harvesting of firewood will not allow me to do this.

Area in front of the garage



The stands have already been put under the woodpile, nothing can be planted here

To our delight, the neighboring plot was finally bought, however, there were some curiosities. Magically, a plot of 6 acres was sold as 16. After all, 10 acres is a swamp. It happens.

Now the neighbors' plot is ennobled, does not irritate the eyes, we have excellent relations, and what else is needed for a neighbor's life. Pines grow below, with proper formation they will become lush and will serve everyone. Now the artificially created entrance to the site is also closed from the winds, and the neighboring house serves as a barrier to the winds. Our new winter house downstairs and the neighboring bathhouse are perfect for each other.

The house and one of the woodmen, the second to the right, did not enter the frame

The bedding is now compacted enough, the slopes are not crumbling. Several cars drive in here. Outside the fence, we don't have piles of sand, no gravel, no peat, no piles of firewood, as is often the case in villages.

In front of the house on the left - lilac, on the right - hawthorns

Lilac bushes grow along the front of the plot under the windows, several hawthorns are growing behind the fence, and in front of them are willow spirea bushes, I cut it twice a season immediately after flowering.

Sheared hedge of willow spirea

Among the blood-red hawthorns, one single-footed hawthorn was caught, of purple hues in autumn. They did not replace it, they left it. We regularly mow the lawn in front of the house, we have been doing this since the 90s, which, to put it mildly, sincerely surprised the locals of that time. It was not accepted to behave like that!

Now the view of people on the concept of summer cottages has noticeably changed, they began to value beauty and cleanliness, they are putting in order the territory near their possessions. Before winter we no longer mow the lawn, the grass will lie down and will fertilize the lawn next year.

Check in today

Near the wall of the house up to the second floor there is a silvery "Sempen" sucker, red-leaved vesicles and variegated derens.

Thuja "Smaragd" is perched on the corner. And the street is covered by seven "Brabant" thujas with variegated wavy hosts and astilbe at the foot.
Behind the thujas, on the south side, daylilies, irises and phlox are planted.

The Royalty apple tree bloomed for the first time this spring, but the flowering was too timid after a harsh winter. Looks quite healthy now.

Decorative apple-tree "Royalty"

I buried her "food" from the heart: 2 buckets of fermented food waste in the diameter of the trunk circle.

Barrel circle

I had to trample and cover with boards from those wishing to profit)) It remains to mulch.

It should be noted separately plants that have taken root perfectly on bare sand with small pebbles.
These are pines - mountain, ordinary, Siberian.

Mountain pine has undergone 3 transplants, the last one this spring.



Scots pine and juniper tamariscifolia

She gave the juniper, planted it in her place, cut it off, not sparing it, but grows like leaps and bounds.

Pine and lemon thyme



On the hill

It is autumn now, weeds not only do not excite me, but please me. They help me to "make" the earth. Young shoots of coltsfoot appear very quickly, the roots of the plants are deep and developed, pulling them out - disturb the surface of the slope, so you have to carefully cut either with a sharpened hoe or flat cutter.

Rejuvenated awaits spring, will be planted on the slopes:

The sedum plant on bare screening is waiting for spring and earth for nourishment, and on the left is the caustic sedum.
If you throw good earth right on top of them, they will turn into handsome men:

Sedum on fertile land, here its growth must be restrained



Stonecrop and thyme is a very old photo, now everything has grown a lot.

Behind the blooming thyme in the photo is a green alpine arabis with a gray bloom. It blooms with a white cloud, long and beautiful, has a scent. Does not tolerate stagnant moisture, clumps do not die off for the winter, remain green. Without snow they can freeze over, but quickly recover in early spring. Arabis is most decorative in the sun. You can divide the plant throughout the growing season.

The pine tree on the left has a Carpathian bell. He also does not like stagnant water, so he had to replant both the bell, and the pine, and part of the overgrown clumps of thyme and arabis, because there is too much moisture along the bottom of the slope. Acrid stonecrop in summer blooms for a long time with a yellow bedspread simultaneously with lilac lemon thyme.

Lemon thyme

And here is thyme on a rich and nutritious land:

Lemon thyme grows here and does not think to bloom, the photos were taken on the same day.

On poor land, it blooms, the bush is compact.

Lemon thyme and tenacious

When planting a small, with a cam, thyme bush, I put a piece of a concrete slab from the path that needed to be redone under it. Crushed stone adheres firmly to the tile. This is how it grows in hummocks in different places of the inclined bedding.

Even sedum on a bare stone feels great

Badan also feels very good on the screenings.

Arends' saxifrage carpet is a great option for planting in a sand mixture

Saxifrage blooms from May to August. Different types of it have different requirements to care, but most prefer drained soil without stagnant moisture. Saxifrage can be propagated by seeds, seedlings will bloom in the second year, or vegetatively - by separate rosettes after flowering.

Gaillardia, a humble toiler, still blooms. Many years ago I grew it, the seeds scattered around sandy ground and suddenly they began to sprout here and there. I left a few bushes.

Gaillardia

They show themselves well in screening with the addition of humus, of course, gypsophila, phlox and hosts - plantain and lanceolate.
I made a conclusion for myself: it is not at all necessary to make numerous plantings of variegated flowers. Even a simple green hill looks much more aesthetically pleasing in its elegant restraint. But how to get over the "disease of the novice summer resident" when you want everything and it is desirable at once and close by. Over time, a sense of proportion arises, but I am still far from it. Here the husband has it: "Leave the mother-and-stepmother alone!" And in fact, after this, other plants come, then still others, and finally, a grass cover appears. Faced with the unforeseen - when you live in a private house in the winter, you need to maintain in proper order the paths necessary for life.

Black currants and gooseberries along the paths were completely covered with snow, and the fruit buds did not suffer from frost this winter, the result - good harvest... This, of course, is a plus, but huge masses of snow on sloping embankments, where young ground covers are planted, is a disaster.

Where to store snow? At the bottom of the slopes I had four felt cherries. They were pelted with snow, it was compressed, sagged many times, in the spring the cherries were broken, although they were tied with twine. Plants on the slopes also have a hard time.

Spring 2017

I even had to throw a pile of snow to make it melt. Now the season ends, I will plan the spring planting of plants on the slopes, taking into account the existing experience.

Sometimes I can't believe that so many things are already behind me. The main thing is that we mastered the arrangement of the entrance to the site with our own hands. difficult terrain».

It is pleasant to sit on the veranda with a cup of tea after the bath and look at the successive pictures from the window.

May evening and rain in the distance

Summer evening 2017