How to Build Forms for a Curving Concrete Sidewalk
Curving sidewalks add a special ambience to any landscape. Installing a curved walkway only requires a small amount additional work when creating the concrete form. Curved concrete forms for a sidewalk can be made by anyone with basic construction experience and tools.
Supplies
- Measuring tape
- Wooden stakes
- Hardboard siding
- Nails
- Level
- Two by four stud
- Shovel
- Select the location of where you sidewalk is to be built. Determine the length of the project.
- Visit the local municipality and obtain any necessary construction permits.
- Call the utility companies to have any lines marked before digging.
- Purchase your supplies from your local home improvement center.
- Cut the hardboard siding into six-inch strips 12 feet in length.
- Mark the project area and take out the topsoil with your shovel. Dig down approximately eight inches for the sidewalk project.
- Stake the beginning and ending perimeters of the project with the wooden stakes.
- Install one of the six-inch hardboard strips to the first stake with the drywall nails. Flex and bend it to the desired shape of the project. Install additional stakes into the ground on the outside perimeter of the hardboard about every three to four feet.
- Continue the process until you have completed one side of the sidewalk form.
- Make sure all the strips are tightly secured to all of the stakes with the drywall nails. Use your tape to measure the sidewalk's width.
- Repeat the above procedure on the opposite side of the sidewalk to install the remaining form.
- Evaluate the project and make sure it is as you desire. Make any necessary changes to the curves at this time.
- Place a two by four across the forms. Lay a level on top and check to make sure they are level. Once the forms are in place it is time to pour the side walk. Build the foundation and add the concrete mesh.
- Order and pour the concrete.