A pebble is a clast of rock with a particle size of 4–64 mm, generally larger than granules (2–4 mm in diameter) and smaller than cobbles (64–256 mm in diameter).
These years, more and more people start to use these little cute round thing to decorate their garden as a pathway to no matter for health reason to achieve the effect of foot massage or a pleasing to the eye because it causes the natural beauty.
But at the same time, many people are having questions with pebble stones. This news picks some of them to clear out hazes to help people make the right decision.
What is the difference between pebble and stone?
pebble is a small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water while stone is (uncountable) a hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders.
How much pebble stone do I need?
First of all, much use is 1-2 cm of pebbles, if you want to spread a bit thicker, then a flat need 90 pounds of pebbles, not so thick, a square 60 pounds can be. So you want to calculate specific area only can know to want to use quantity.
How to install pebble stone?
1. Clean up the base. Cobble is spread commonly outdoor, to ensure cobble shop is installed firm, had better be laid on natural soil. The height of the soil surface is excavated, then the base is compacted. But if the time is to do pebbles on the surface of concrete, we must first shovel out the original concrete, and then pave the pavement with fine stone concrete.
2. Smooth the mortar. The surface of the base can first wipe a plain cement slurry, in order to ensure the viscosity of pebbles can be mixed with 107 glue of 10% of the water, and then layer the glue into the bottom of the mortar. The bottom of the mortar should also be treated flat, you can use a ruler to scrape, and then rub hair with wood crab, to be the mortar after the final condensation of sprinkler maintenance. When applying the stone slurry surface layer, scrape a plain cement slurry and smear the stone slurry twice from bottom to top. The surface should be slightly 1mm higher than the completed ground on both sides, and finally pat the stone slurry layer flat and compact it.
Step 3 Install pebbles. First of all, choose different colors and different sizes of cobblestone, and then you can install cobblestone according to the pattern and grain you like. Need to pay attention to the cobble must insert the pebbles around two-thirds the thickness of the complete cement, must be enough to cover the distance between each pebbles, as well as to control the surface of the pebbles in the same horizontal plane, lest the future use of rugged is easy to fall, and stepping up is not comfortable.
4. Clean surfaces. Pebbles after the installation, can use soft broom will gently clean pebbles on the surface of the cement ash, in the first time, it is important to note that on time evenly sprinkling water on the cobblestone roads, but water is not too big and the sprinkling of water as long as it is able to satisfy the pebbles on the surface of cement solidification and provides ample water is ok, Stop sprinkling until the water is about to overflow and when the cobblestones have completely solidified on the pavement
What color is pebble stone?
Pebble stones own various colors itself from they are formed, such as black, yellow, mixed, stripped, red and etc. of course, there are also artificial ways to make them other colors, such as luminous for different use of customers. But I do suggest you to pick natural color.
Where to buy pebble stone?
You have various choice to buy pebble stones no matter from your local market or to import from other countries.If you are a personal use, you can go either a garden center,a project builder or a manufactor in your local market. If you're a business, you can import them from us magic stone! We provide natural pebbles stones with various colors and sizes, which we believe will better support your various demand.
So if you want to see abundant pebbels resources and willing to buy these beautiful cute little stones, follow magicstonegarden's youtube channel to see and how they are processed.
Written by Jane Chi
Post time: Apr-08-2022