We got a new house and in the backyard is this red garden stone edging that easily falls over. It does this because it has empty space in the front to give it an elevated look. It does kinda have a lip in the back that is supposed to keep it in place with the stone below it, but any little pressure on the front has it falling right over. Any suggestions on how to keep it from doing this? (Flatten the ground underneath? Have some kind of material behind it to keep it from flipping? Add mortar?)
by Future-Bullfrog-9311
8 Comments
Loctite or some sort of adhesive
Those stones are meant to have pressure coming from the back of the stone, typically in a retaining wall. Pressure on the back will push the stone against the lip on the other stone and lock it in place.
Why you have what you have in a new house: The flippers paid a landscaper to do something cheap and they had this stone left over from another job.
Your choices are:
* as u/Clever_MisterE says and use and adhesive
* Fill the back to lock in place with crushed gravel and then mulch or earth on top
* change your edging
First, it looked like there was wood mulch on top of the bottom row that it sat on.
Second, the bottom row does not look flat between the two blocks. Even expensive blocks need an extremely flat base or else everything above it will fail.
You cannot be serious?
Spider got squished 🙁
Remedial
About as useful as a third nipple
Pull it back down off of the bump so it can sit flat. This feels like begging for engagement or enragement bait. Something…..