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Replacing Wooden Edges (europe.pub)

submitted 2 days ago by openrev0lt@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world

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Hi all,

We bought a house last year and the backyard has artificial turf. We don’t like the wooden edging the previous owners built in so we were thinking of using concrete edgers instead.

Does anyone have experience with that? Anything we need to be cautious of? I hope I don’t need to remove the turf to do this, so curious about your experience.

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[–] openrev0lt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The edgers start to rot , so that’s why I’m thinking of replacing them.

I need to replace roughly 83 feet of wooden edgers which will cost around $200 for the concrete edgers.

Quarry spalls are stones in the shape of a brick? This would definitely be a good option but that’s not as aesthetically appealing to us as these red concrete ones.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Quarry spalls are much more irregular than bricks, so it'd be a much rougher edge. Sounds like the edgers are the desired product, so by all means that's what mattera.

For the concrete edgers I'd just lay an inch or two of sand and tamp it down firm. A tamped sand foundation is much easier to set and keep level than your average soils, and better for drainage and seasonal shifts (freezing). You'll be having to keep 80 concrete edgers straight and even instead of maybe 10 wood boards.

[–] openrev0lt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Great advice, will follow that, thanks a lot!