Since 2016, LEGO METAL (QINGDAO) LTD has proudly stood at the forefront of groundbreaking landscape edging solutions. Elevate your outdoor environment with our premium Durable Garden Metal Edging, designed for Elegant Landscape Design. Our product seamlessly merges sophistication and exceptional reliability, ensuring that your garden's aesthetic charm remains timeless and captivating.
Product Description
Discover the exquisite elegance of our Corten Steel Garden Edging—a breathtaking solution to refine and accentuate your garden's allure. Perfect for containing garden beds, bordering lawns, and framing pathways, this edging gracefully evolves with age, offering distinctive character that harmonizes with all garden styles, plantings, and architectural designs.
Corten steel stands as a remarkable choice for garden edging. Its visual allure is perfectly matched by its strength, durability, and practicality. Over a period of six months, it develops a water-tight patina that prevents further rusting, becoming even more robust over time. This protective layer not only fortifies the steel but also significantly extends its lifespan, requiring absolutely no maintenance. Choose our garden edging for a solution as reliable as it is beautiful.
The installation of this edging is effortless and straightforward. No special tools are necessary—simply a block of wood and a hammer make it easy for anyone to install. Transform your garden with ease and precision.
When is steel edging more advantageous than aluminium edging?
Both steel and aluminium edging offer exceptional durability and weather resistance, each boasting unique advantages tailored to diverse landscaping needs.
Steel's unparalleled strength makes it the ideal choice for areas exposed to heavy garden machinery or vehicles. Its robustness is also perfect for retaining structures in raised borders, providing dependable support with unwavering reliability.
Steel edging offers extraordinary versatility in color options, available in untreated, galvanized, Corten weathering steel, or powder-coated finishes in your preferred RAL color, ensuring a perfect match for any landscape vision.
What's the distinction between untreated steel and Corten steel?
Both untreated and Corten steel develop an eye-catching orange-brown patina over time. However, Corten steel alloys accelerate this process, enriching its visual appeal and aesthetic charm.
The patina not only enhances aesthetic allure but offers practical benefits. Corten steel is highly favored by architects and landscapers for its rapid patina development that blends seamlessly with organic and natural design concepts, complementing both traditional and contemporary settings beautifully.
How do I prevent Corten steel from staining surrounding stone or concrete?
The weathering process of Corten steel can discolor water runoff, potentially staining light or porous surfaces. Fortunately, there are effective methods to mitigate this risk.
Pre-weathering the steel before installation minimizes contact with other materials by ensuring most oxidation occurs beforehand. Accelerate this process by applying specific chemicals to the steel's surface for optimal results.
Creating a gravel border between the steel and adjacent surfaces allows water to drain away, preventing the spread of rust and potential staining, ensuring your landscape remains pristine.
How much maintenance does steel edging require?
Steel, though more prone to corrosion than aluminium, demands minimal maintenance when crafted from high-grade materials, promising long-lasting durability.
The natural oxidation layer on Corten steel typically provides ample protection under normal circumstances, preserving the underlying material beautifully.
Powder-coated steel also boasts high corrosion resistance. To ensure its longevity, take care not to damage the powder coating during installation, further safeguarding against corrosion and ensuring your edging remains immaculate.
FAQ
Why is edging needed for hard and soft landscaping?
Most hard landscaping surfaces that are walked or driven on need some form of edging. This serves various functions, from the practical to the aesthetic:
- To protect against edge damage
- To provide a level guide for screeding resin-bound and wet-pour surfaces
- To prevent sideways movement of paving laid on tamped sand
- To create a step up or down between surfaces of a different height
- To contain loose aggregates such as gravel and chippings from spreading into surrounding areas
- To create a clear demarcation between contrasting types or colours of hard landscaping.
What is the best edging material for paving?
Most paving is laid on tamped sand, sometimes with 'dot and dab' concrete to hold it more firmly in place. Without a stable edge, the pavers will eventually become dislodged due to foot or vehicle traffic and ground movement. This will lead to other problems:
- Gaps opening between the pavers will encourage weeds, grass and moss to grow.
- As the pavers loosen the surface will become unstable and create trip hazards
- If the paved area is adjacent to soft landscaping (lawns or planted beds) the edge will start to break away
Pin kerbing or pavers, set on a solid concrete base and haunched, will create a solid edge that can either blend with or complement the rest of the paving.
However, this method may require several site visits to lay the foundation, then lay and haunch the edging, and time between for the base and haunching to cure before the paving can be laid.
If aluminium or steel edging is used, the paving can be laid as soon as the edging is installed. Both products feature a narrow profile that makes them inconspicuous against paving and soft landscaping, and neither has the problem of grass die-back caused by concrete.
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