Concrete Curb is commonly used for roadside, it’s used to avoid flood and also avoid driver and motorist drive onto the walkway and hurt the people on the walkway. There are many type of concrete curb such as basic curb, combined curb and gutter, integral curb, kassel curb, precast curb, landscape curb and etc. Precast concrete curb is commonly used by contractor because it’s easy to construct, save time and cost, minimize the wastage of materials.

Normally concrete curb is used on housing yard or garden, it’s used to decorate our garden or yard. Most probably it’s covering the grass or tree to make it neat, clean and decorative. Few days ago, I saw this when I travel to somewhere, I saw the concrete curb was covering a type of red paver block.

As you see on the photo above, the concrete curb is surrounding the red paver block. There is few simple types of paver block such as interlocking paver, landscape paver and etc. Normally paver block is made from cement, concrete and aggregate. Many people likes to use paver block instead of laying concrete slab because it’s look unique and beautiful, house owner likes to use paver block to decorate their external floor as well. Manufacturer mix it with a few different of colour to make the pavers the look of natural stone, like granite or slate.

Red Paver Block – Made from cement, concrete and aggregate.

This type of concrete curb that surround red paver block is commonly used on the place where people want to make the place look nicer. Normally it’s used on walkway and people might walk on it. This kind of concrete curb with paver block, you can simply get some concrete contractors to construct it, it’s a very small job and most of the concrete contractors can done it well. The mixture of materials and colour must be correct so that the place can be look beautiful and great!

Concrete landscape curb can be either precast or cast-in-situ. As what I mentioned in my previous article, cast-in-situ is those concrete that constructed on the spot on the site by labour. Probably concrete landscape curb is used to decorate our yard and make our yard to be different with your neighbours. Other than this, we call it as landscape edging as well. By using landscape edging for your yard, it makes your garden looks neat and clean as well.

Concrete landscape curb can be done by simple landscape curbing machine as what I show in “Concrete Curbing Machine List“. It don’t cost you a lot and it simple and fast to settle the job. It doesn’t like what I wrote for concrete road curb which curved combined concrete road curb and gutter takes you about few days to finish it.

Step By Step : How To Build Concrete Landscape Curb

I found a video from Youtube that we can learn how to build the concrete landscape curb for our yard, it’s a very simple video and it takes your 2 minutes to learn how to construct concrete landscape curb in short time.

1) Ground preparation
Ground preparation is meaning that we have to excavate a shallow with a hoe. After that, we have to make it flat and neat so that the landscape curbing machine can be move smoothly and done in short time.

2) Mixing concrete
After ground preparation, we may have to start mixing the concrete with a concrete mixer and bring it to the construction location.

3) Laying concrete
So we can now start laying concrete on the location that we want to construct landscape curbing. We will fix the landscape concrete curbing machine on the edging 1st, we need 2 persons to work on it if not the progress might be very slow. 1 person control the curbing machine and 1 person put the concrete into the machine. After put the concrete into the machine, another person will be pulling the curbing machine and the curb shape will be follow by the machine as what we saw in the video.

4) Finishing
The concrete edging is not as smooth as what we want, so we have to make it smooth with a tool. After that, we have to cut it into pieces.

5) Exposing Aggregate
In this stage, we have to expose the aggregate on the surface of curbing edging and make it stabilize and stand for longer without cracking.

6) Stamping
After that, we have to do stamping on the surface of the landscape curbing. The landscape curbing is now looks like built with small pieces of brick. The purpose of this is to make it unique and decorative. We have to do it unique because the main purpose of doing landscape curb is to make the place looks unique and decorative.

7) Spraying
Last, spray again with the aggregate and make it stable again. Done!

Conclusion

By building the concrete landscape curb, it only takes you a very short period to complete it. What you get is a very nice and unique garden, it totally looks different with your neighbours. The work is done in few hours time, it doesn’t make your place dirty and messy. It’s the easiest and simplest way to build the concrete landscape curb for your garden and yard.

As I mentioned in my previous article, precast concrete road curb is one type of concrete road curb that manufacturer produces it in various shapes. The precast concrete road curb will be sent to the construction site when there is an usage of precast road curb.

It doesn’t like concrete landscape curb which constructed on the spot at the construction site or we called it “cast-in-site”. Of course, not only concrete landscape curb do have cast-in-situ while normal concrete road curb does have cast-in-situ by using various type of concrete curbing machine.

Why Most Of The Contractors Like To Use Precast Concrete Road Curb?

1) Time Saving
Most of the contractors like to use precast concrete road curb instead of using cast-in-situ method, one of the reasons is time saving. By using precast concrete road curb, it saves a lot of time instead of preparing all the machines, materials and workmanship to construct it on the spot at the site.

Time is everything in construction, contractor is given a time frame to complete the project. With that said, using precast concrete product saves a lot of time. In case contractor not able to complete the task within the time frame, most probably the contractor will be charged a cost by the client, in other word we called it “Liquidated Ascertained Damages” (LAD). To avoid these happen, I would say precast concrete product is one of the suitable and awesome product for concrete contractors.

2) Save Cost
Other than time saving, contractors might be able to save cost as well. In point #1, time is everything in construction, cost can be saved from workmanship. Why cost can be saved from workmanship since the manufacturer has already added this into their prices?

I make an example, let’s say contractor constructs the concrete road curb with cast-in-situ method, for a small tasks, most of the contractor might pay their workers in Day-Work method which mean contractor will pay their worker in day by day basis. In this situation, on one of the working day, that’s a raining day and workers not able to continue their works (Concrete works are not recommended to do on rainy day because the concrete takes time to become strong and stable, the quality of the concrete will be gone). With that said, contractor will be charged for 1 more working day to pay their workers. By using precast concrete road curb, the quality of the concrete can be maintained and workers able to complete the tasks in just a few hours time.

By completing the tasks within the time frame given by client, contractor will be saved and not being charged LAD by client as I mentioned in point #1.

Photos Of Precast Concrete Curb

Precast Concrete Road Curb – Concrete Road Curb is not only used for landscape purpose, but it used to protect the traffic lights and signboards as well. It’s commonly used in many foreign countries too.

Precast Concrete Intermediate Curb – It’s the same type of precast concrete road curb but it’s used in the intermediate of the 2-way carriageways. It’s used to distance the both roadway to avoid accident.

Concrete Grade

Normally the concrete grade used for precast concrete road curb is 20N/mm2. It’s more than enough to maintain it’s strength. The precast concrete road curb is already produce in various shape, you can simply get the information and precast concrete specifications from your local precast concrete product manufacturer.

Concrete landscape curb is another type of concrete curb, the function of the concrete landscape curb is slightly different with normal concrete curb. Normal concrete curb that I showed in previous article is mostly used as drainage system to avoid flood along the roadside, while concrete landscape curb is used to make our house look nicer and comfortable. There is several types of concrete landscape curb, they are normal concrete landscape curb, colored curb, stamped curb and lighted curb.

Normally we install the concrete landscape curb in our house’s yard or garden, it makes our yard look unique and nicer. Concrete landscape curb can be known as decorative concrete curb too, since the purpose is to make our yard or garden look unique, of course it must be decorative one. It creates an edging surrounding your plant or tree, it’s to make your garden looks clean and neat.

Between, we need a concrete curb machine to lay these concrete landscape curb in the garden, it don’t requires specialist concrete curb machine while a normal concrete curb machine will do.

Shape For Concrete Landscape Curb

Types Of Concrete Landscape Curb

1) Concrete Landscape Curb

Concrete landscape curb is the most simplest and neatest curb that is used for your garden, it improves the appearance for your garden. You can design the shape of the concrete landscape curb following your need, it can be round, curve, square and etc. It’s all depends on how you want your garden to be look like.

2) Colored Concrete Curb

It’s almost the same as normal concrete landscape curb, the only different thing is the color. Adding some colors on the concrete landscape curb make it look unique and creative, you can show your creativity though you can mix the color yourself.

3) Stamped Concrete Curb

Stamped concrete curb look nicer than the normal concrete curb and colored curb, the curb looks like constructed by bricks. Other than this, you can do mixture on the color as well, it makes your yard looks unique and bring your garden to the next level.

4) Lighted Concrete Curb

Lighted concrete curb performs the best to make your garden outstanding from your neighbors. It installs a continuous rope lighting system on the surface of the concrete curb, uses a rope lighting system that has low voltage and uses little electricity. It won’t cost you tonnes of money, at the same times it makes your garden looks great and unique!

Photo Credit – Edgemaster

Concrete curb machine is used to construct the concrete curb, concrete curb for parking lot, concrete curb for roadside, walkway, garden, golf courses, recreation area and etc. There are several types of concrete curb machine, every curb machine has their own advantages and disadvantages.

By choosing a suitable concrete curb machine, you have to check their features, purposes and know how they work. I’ve a list of few concrete curbing machine, I hope it helps.

List Of Concrete Curbing Machine

1) PRSting

Features :
i) The curb machine can do compaction nicely with its double drive compactor.

ii) The mold for concrete curb is changeable.

2) RE500

Features :
i) It comes with a single drive compactor that it allows you to do a compaction on the concrete curb and make it look nice and strong.

ii) The mold for concrete curb is changeable.

3) Twin Auger Curb Machine

Features :
i) It consists of self-feeding hopper and twin auger as well. It moves very fast and able to lay up to 12 feet per minute.

ii) It’s very smooth when the machine lays the concrete curb.

iii) The machine moves steadily and it helps to lay the concrete curb straight.

iv) It’s a very small and simple concrete curb machine, it don’t require a lot of labours, it saves your cost.

4) Orbital Ram curb Machine

Features :
i) It comes with self-feeding hopper, it allows you feed the curb machine with large amount of materials, it saves your times and more productivity.

ii) It produces very smooth and self compacted concrete curb, concrete curb will be stronger and can be stay for very long without cracks.

iii) The machines can either use gas or electric power, you can choose either one that you feel comfortable.

5) Creative Curb Machine

Features :
i) It’s very light and easy to carry to everywhere.

ii) The machines can either use gas or electric power.

iii) The machines has a orbital pattern and able to cut down concrete waste at the side of the concrete curb, it saves times and works.

6) Light Pro Curb Machine

Features :
i) The machine can cuts a line on the side or front of the concrete curb, it allows you to install a lighting robe insides it.

ii) It can cuts in faster speed, say 10 feet or faster per minute.

iii) The machines cuts the line steadily because it’s locked at the concrete curb in safe way.

7) Commercial Curb Machines

i) The curb machine has normal speed to lay 8-15 feet of concrete curb per minute.

8 ) EP Curb Machine With Two Molds (LB100)

Features :
i) The concrete curb machine has a consistent flow of concrete and lay the concrete curb in good quality and smooth.

9) TT Curb Machine With Two Molds (LB300)

Features :
i) It’s one type of landscape curb machine.

ii) It’s very economic that many contractors are able to buy it.

iii) This curb machine is not suitable to be used on 24″ garden walks due to lacks of power.

10) Auger Curb Machine with Two Molds (LB400)

Features :
i) The curb machines is suitable to be used on asphalt or concrete surfaces.

ii) It comes with auger that able to produces very smooth concrete curb.

iii) It’s same to TT Curb Machines With Two Molds (LB300) that is not suitable to be used on 24″ garden walks.

11) EPC Curb Machine With One Custom Mold (LB200)

Features :
i) The curb machine can lay in very fast speed, it’s suitable for those contractor who want to complete the job in short period to save cost.

ii) It’s used to construct concrete curb for parking lot.

12) Curbmaster 3000

Features :
i) The machine in a small and unique size, it’s designed to make smooth turning. Normally it’s used in carparks, highways, expressway, and etc.

ii) It can lay about 300 metres in a day.

13) Curbmaster 4000

Features :
i) It’s same with Curbmaster 3000, it’s designed to make smooth turning as well.

ii) Other than this, it has higher power than Curbmaster 3000 and can produce more quantities of concrete curb. It can lay about 400 metres in a day.

14) Curbmaster 6000

Features :
i) The curb machine has larger sizes than Curbmaster 3000 and Curbmaster 4000, while it has larger power than them. It can lay about 500 metres in a day.

15) 175 CG

Features :
i) It’s a smaller curb machine.

ii) It can produces concrete curb in few locations like parking lots, mower edge, garden curbs and etc.

16) BC-400 Biz Curb

Features :
i) It’s purposely used for landscape curbing.

ii) The curb machine has a low power while it can only lay about 200 metres in a day.

17) Miller MC-550 Industrial Curbing Machine

Features :
i) The machine comes with interchangeable auger. It saves times and work.

18) Curb-Tec CT-900 Industrial Curbing Machine

Feature :
i) This curb machine able to lay rebard reinforced or trench curbs.

ii) It can produce concrete or asphalt curbs.

19) Curb Appeal CLS-650 Landscape Curbing Machine

Features :
i) It’s an advanced concrete curb machine.

ii) It provides a very consistent flow of concrete and produce a very smooth and quality curb.

iii) Normally it’s used for landscape curbs and commercial curbs.

20) Miller MC 250 Landscape Curbing Machine

Features :
i) This curb machine is purposely created for decorative landscape curbing.

ii) It can be used in a lot of location like golf courses, parks and recreation areas, water retention areas, garden borders, and miniature putting greens.

21) Mud Buddy Curb Weasel Landscape Curbing Machine

Features :
i) This curb machine has a easy operation because of the usage of gas power.

22) Tygar MFG TG1000PE Electric Landscape Curbing Machine

Features :
i) This curb machine is for landscape curbing purpose as well.

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