My easy garden edge

[Snapey]

Laying pavers the traditional way as a garden edge can be difficult to get right ... until now.

My landscaper son suggested using pavers as a garden edge for a new project and promised to do the job but he's super busy and can't do it for a while ... but I want it now.

I thought there had to be easier ways of laying pavers than the traditional concrete footings & cement so why not aluminium channel to sit them in? Luckily I have a friend with the right gear so we cut and folded seven 2400mm aluminium channels. All that's needed now is a 50mm deep channel in the grass for the aluminium to sit. The bends I cut with an angle grinder and riveted to the required angle then it's just a matter of placing the pavers in the channel. Result ... perfectly straight edges and even height tops. Pack the dirt on both sides and it's finished.

It's not the usual method but it's easy to do and looks professional. The only thing I didn't do and probably should have was to put some drainage holes in the channel. How long the aluminium lasts underground or whether the levels rapidly deteriorate I don't know but for now I love the result.

[Kiwifruit]

Looks great, love the straight edges 

[KiwiCol]

Looks bloody great Snapey.  Very clever & useful idea.  Thx for sharing.

[Johno]

Great work Snapey. I've been digging garden edges this morning between light showers.

I won't be showing your photos to the missus. Your lines are perfectly straight.

Putting in drainage holes will allow you to direct the water depending on the land fall.

[grog]

Great job, great idea.

[grog]

Snapey, meant to say. Thats what they used inside my house, where tiles meet wooden boards. 25 mm. Looks good.

[Snapey]

They have a similar product for garden edging where the alloy is a feature ... much the same as your timber to tile strip Grog. I didn't want to see any alloy in my border as the pavers are the edge feature. I just wanted something that was easy to do compared to the concrete footing method.

Cost wise it's not too bad either at $8 per 2.4m length. Cutting & bending costs would add another $2 maybe. The most economical way to make it would be a 150mm wide coil put through a series of rollers but there's a minimum number of coils you have to buy. You can buy an extrusion that's close to size also but that's $20/metre.

Just for the hell of it I'm going to Bunnings tomorrow so I might make a few enquiries.

Because my son was so insistent that the aluminium track idea was shit he arrived with shovel and cement and put down some footings. (see photo) He hasn't been seen since so channel and pavers have since been placed on top.

[VladTepes]

  Snapey very creative. Looks awesome.