How to Install Landscaping Bricks
Installing landscaping bricks can add stylish barricades on your landscape. The bricks can be purchased in different sizes, colors, and shapes. In addition to being attractive, the bricks are easy to install. This article will instruct you on how to install landscaping bricks.
- Determine the square footage of the area where you will put in the landscaping bricks. This will help you select the correct number of bricks.
- Dig a small area about the width of a landscape brick for the first layers of bricks. About three inches of soil should be removed from the base of the area.
- Before you place the first layer of bricks, put in one inch of gravel into the area.
- Put a drainpipe underneath the location of the landscaping bricks.
- Being stacking the bricks. Align them in a staggered pattern. Place mortar and excess gravel in any empty spaces. Continue stacking the bricks until the bricks are a maximum of four feet high.