Creating A Stepping-Stone Pathway Home Improvement Inside and Out

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Creating A Stepping-Stone Pathway

Stepping-stone paths give you many of the benefits of paver stones and concrete sidewalks but

with out all of the mess, work, and expense. You can prevent damage to your lawn caused by continually walking on it, or walk to your garden and avoid getting your feet wet by the morning dew. Because you only take out enough sod to put the stones in place, you can lay this path without digging up your whole lawn. Additionally, if you stack the sod and dirt up on a plastic tarp as you work you will have an easier time of cloning up.

Nearly any kind of flat stones will do, but they should be roughly two inches in thickness. You can purchase limestone stepping-stones from a near by landscaping outlet for roughly two dollars each. In addition, you will also require a sixty-pound bag of playground sand for every ten stones that you plan to lay down.


1. You should space your stones along the path so that the spacing is equivalent to your stride. Use your stepping-stones as a pattern to cut out your lawn, cut around each stone with a sharp knife you can also use a drywall saw.	2. Place the stone off to one side, and remove the sod that you have cut using a trowel. Dig out the hole for your stones one inch deeper than the thickness of your stones so that you will have enough depth to add a sand base.	3. Level about a one-inch layer of sand in the bottom of the hole to set your stone on, and rock the stone back and forth until it is even with the grass that is around it. If it is not level, you can remove or add some sand. Respite the same steps for each stone.