Since 2016, LEGO METAL (QINGDAO) LTD has proudly stood at the forefront of innovative landscape edging solutions. We invite you to transform your outdoor environment into a masterpiece with our premium Durable Garden Metal Edging for Elegant Landscape Design. Our product seamlessly merges sophistication with unmatched reliability, ensuring your garden's aesthetic charm remains timeless and breathtaking.
Product Description
Discover the captivating elegance of our Corten Steel Garden Edging—a visually stunning solution designed to delineate and enhance your garden's inherent beauty. Perfect for containing garden beds, bordering lush lawns, and framing charming pathways, this exquisite edging evolves with age, offering a unique character that complements every garden style, planting, and architectural design.
Corten steel is a remarkable material choice for garden edging, combining aesthetic appeal with strength, durability, and practicality. Over six months, it forms a water-tight patina that halts further rusting and grows more robust over time. This protective layer fortifies the steel and extends its life, requiring no maintenance. Choose our garden edging for a solution that is as dependable as it is visually captivating.
Installation of this edging is designed to be effortless and straightforward. No special tools are required—just a simple block of wood and a hammer make it easy for anyone to install, saving time and effort while achieving professional results.
When is steel edging better than aluminium edging?
Both steel and aluminium edging offer exceptional durability and weather resistance, each boasting unique advantages tailored to suit different landscaping needs, ensuring your vision becomes a reality.
Steel's superior strength makes it the ideal choice for areas exposed to heavy garden machinery or vehicles. Its robustness is perfect for retaining structures in raised borders, providing reliable and steadfast support that stands the test of time.
Steel edging offers unparalleled versatility in color options, available in untreated, galvanized, Corten weathering steel, or powder-coated finishes in your preferred RAL color, allowing you to customize your landscape with precision and style.
What's the difference 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 appeal and ensuring a striking, enduring appearance.
The patina not only enhances aesthetic appeal but offers practical benefits. Corten steel is favored by architects and landscapers for its quick-developing patina that blends seamlessly with organic and natural design concepts, effortlessly fitting both traditional and contemporary settings.
How do I prevent Corten steel from staining surrounding stone or concrete?
Corten steel's weathering process can discolor water runoff, potentially staining light or porous surfaces. Fortunately, there are effective methods to mitigate this risk and maintain the integrity of your design.
Pre-weathering 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, preserving surrounding surfaces.
Creating a gravel border between the steel and adjacent surfaces allows water to drain away efficiently, preventing spread and potential staining, and preserving the beauty of your landscape design.
How much maintenance does steel edging need?
Steel, though more prone to corrosion than aluminium, requires minimal maintenance when crafted from high-grade materials, ensuring longevity and sustained beauty with minimal effort.
The natural oxidation layer on Corten steel typically provides sufficient protection under normal circumstances, preserving the underlying material and offering peace of mind.
Powder-coated steel also boasts high corrosion resistance. To ensure unparalleled longevity, take care not to damage the powder coating during installation, further safeguarding against corrosion and ensuring a pristine appearance for years to come.
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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