The plan and work
The stage preliminary to construction dune terrace or the installation of the external alleys is of course the plan. Define the utility passages: the access to the house, the garage, the kitchen garden if it is necessary, then the paths which will make it possible to walk on and to discover the garden. Prefer for the alleys the curved forms with the long less natural straight lines and which are based with difficulty in the vegetation.
It is also during work of setting in that it is advised to imagine the lighting of your garden and the possible water supply points (in order to bury a tight electrical communication and to lay out the various luminous points).
In the same way, to design your terrace, you must at the surface of your ground.
Good namely: with less than eters broad, it is difficult Dy to put a table and chairs. And for this width better is worth to close your terrace, that will avoid any risk of fall.
Also think of leading electricity to it in order to be able to use equipment such as minicomputer-furnace, electric barbecue or a minicomputer-refrigerator.
The terrace out of wooden
Cordial aspect, pleasant contact, esthetic bridge of boat: wood is an often selected material for the terraces. and indifferent to the thermal gaps, the exotic species (teak) are generally employed for the achievements in outside. It will be enough to oil them every year according to the level of sunning of the area or the climatic conditions. Side put in , you can choose between the flagstones or the blades.
- The flagstones or gratings allow a fast construction, the modules being encased one in another
- The wood blades set on tie bars, themselves screwed on a concrete flagstone. Another method consists in installing this same floor on elevated studs. Provide for geotextile then which, deployed on all surface between the foundations and the floor, prevents the plants from pushing. This technique of installation will facilitate the drainage and will make it possible to correct the possible uneven ones.
The terrace in thick piece
Natural, of recovery or copies of old, the thick pieces are usable for your terrace, your alleys or around your swimming pool. Will know that this type of coating puts up with a foundation built as of a sand bed.
The stone terrace
One distinguishes two types of stone slabs:
- The first, resulting from stones extracted the careers, are declined out of sandstone, marble or granite. Side foundations, nothing simpler, they is posed directly on a ground draining indifferently made up of stone or sand.
- The seconds are reconstituted (stone powder or aggregates linked by a specific resin). They require a rigid base, in other words a flagstone concrete on which they are sealed with mortar. Cheaper, they lend themselves to the achievements which want to be faithful to the tablet of an area.
Lastly, will know that there exist also flagstones imitating the aspect of wood to perfection.
Choice of the hue of the ground
Be careful so that the color of your terrace takes account of the level of sunning of your area. The higher it is and the more preferable it is to choose moderate colors which limit the luminosity. Thus, for an exposed terrace full southern, one will prefer ochers or the gray. On the other hand, for a guideline in north, the clear hues will add luminosity to your stay or other contiguous parts to the terrace.
What says the law?
If your house is on a ground isolated creation from a terrace does not require a permit building or of preliminary statement of work. You bring closer to the town hall of your place of dwelling to know the steps to be followed in your commune.
If you buy in allotment, examine the and the regulation in order to ensure you of the feasibility of your project.