How to install a curb/curbstone for a path with your own hands

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Installation instructions
We are not talking about installing those large and massive curbs that are used to separate the road, but lawn or garden curbs that are needed to separate the garden path. It does not matter what you plan to pave the path with - tiles, stone or other covering, so that it does not spread, you need limiters. Most often, a low curb is made. That is, the top of the path fence is a few centimeters higher than the surface of the path and the garden / vegetable garden / flower bed on the other side. In this case, when watering or raining, the soil will not wash onto the path.

These are the recommended installation schemes for curbs with paving slabs.

Work order
So, here is the order of installing the curb:

Draw a path on the ground. You can use a thick plastic lithuania mobile database filled with sand. Cut off one corner, getting a thin stream of sand, which is convenient for marking. If you need to correct something, it’s not a problem either. Rub it down, draw a new one.
We dig a trench. The width is 30-40 centimeters, the depth is about 20-30 cm. In general, the depth of the groove for installing the curb depends on the height of the curb. Or rather, the part that you are going to bury. There should be crushed stone backfill and a layer of concrete underneath.
We level the bottom of the trench, compact the soil. You probably have a rough idea of ​​how to level it. And what to tamp it with? If you know how to weld and have a welding machine, take a piece of thick metal, weld a piece of a rod or pipe to the middle, and a crossbar-holder on top. You will get a normal tamper. It will also be needed when leveling the surface for the path. No welding machine? Make the same thing out of wood. Also not bad, although the mass is less.

Next, we pour crushed stone onto the leveled and compacted bottom. The layer is about 10-15 cm. We also level it and tamp it until the trace of your foot is visible on it.
We take pegs and ropes. We hammer in the pegs and stretch the rope. The height of the rope is the top of the curb. We check the horizontality of the thread with a building level. It will serve as a reference when setting the curb height.
Mix sand-cement mortar grade M300 or higher. Lay it under the thread in an oblong mound. Install the curb on the prepared cushion, align it along the stretched thread. The lower edge should be sunk into the concrete by at least 5 cm. If such a layer does not work, add concrete on both sides.