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Shingled Pathway
July 3rd, 2006
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They were a great color combination for this project. They looked fairly natural once I put them down. And speaking of putting them down, the process was very simiar to the walkway.
I weed whacked the overgrowth, laid down many layers of newspaper and then just dropped the shingles down on top of 
the newspaper.The purpose of the newspaper is to provide a weed barrier, but also to decompose into soil under the shingles. Plastic, pieces of carpeting and old sheets or blankets can also be used. Obviously, the plastic won’t decompose into soil. The other two options will, and will take longer than the newspaper would.
I may wish I used one of those instead - we shall see.
Your Frugal Decorating Diva,
Nancy
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Kathleen on 23 Jan 2007 at 8:11 am: 2
This looks SO great, but I have a question. Don’t the shingles slide all over? You state that you just dropped them down on top of the newspapers. How do you keep such a nice edge? Please advise. I have a perfect spot for do this project.
nancy on 23 Jan 2007 at 12:36 pm: 3
Great questions!
Two things help with “no slipping”. I did just drop them right on top of the newspaper, and they would overlap each other. I put the “shingled”, rough side up (versus the shiney, flat side)- which kept things from slipping. The roughness of the shingle tops sorta provided a slipless mat.
The second thing I noticed, is that the sun shining on them caused them to kinda melt together - not really MELT, but “stick” together. Could be the tar in the shingles. So it became a nice walkway.
The edge on the walkway was accommplished by putting shingles with straight sides along the edge. Now that you asked, I should have put in my post that any shingles that where nice and straight on one side were really good for a neat-looking edge.