How To Install Landscape Timber Spikes
Once you ve made all the holes drive the 12 inch spikes into the holes but make sure that the diameter of the spikes is larger than the holes that you just made.
How to install landscape timber spikes. Mark the footprint for the new timbers using spray paint of construction caulk. Prepare the ground at the edge of the border planting so that it is ready to receive the landscape timber edging. Pound the spikes into the wood with a hammer using 3 or 4 in each timber to hold several rows together. As we began building th.
Make sure the marks you make on top of this course of timbers do not align with the marks on the face of the first row. Drill a pilot hole at each mark. Sometimes you make a mistake on a retaining wall or landscaping project and you just have to own it and correct it and make it right. To install rebar drill a hole through each timber stack the timbers if necessary then.
The boys and i knocking out the slide landing zone replacement. Trim timbers to trim a timber to length measure and mark the location with the pencil. Ensure that each spike is driven through one timber and deep into the next timber beneath for a secure fit. Pound a 12 inch galvanized steel spike into.
Use a level to check that the timbers are level. Place a nail puller into the carved out indention until the notch on the nail puller is positioned under the head of the metal spike. Use a shovel a steel rake or a garden hoe to dig out rocks roots and other obstructions along the edging s path. Walk over the loosened soil to pack it down.
Next use the square and pencil to draw a line across the face of the timber rotating the timber and marking each face till you return to where you started. Drill holes on all four corners and more holes every 4 feet. Get the drill and drill some holes through both layers of the landscape timber edging. You can use it alone or in conjunction with landscape spikes and screws but it does require predrilling.
Level the gravel and set the first layer of timbers on top of the gravel. Cut across each face with the circular saw.