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To give your garden a more “natural” and beautiful appearance, you can drop a large rock that will showcase your plants and facilities it. While it is virtually impossible to get in a natural rock garden of great size, making an imitation of reinforced concrete is very effective and can adapt to the rock expectations.

Compared to the natural rock, fake rock has several advantages. First, it can be installed at any location in the garden. usually people prefer to install it in the corners. At the pool side or in the middle of the lawn, inside the pond or in a corner of the garden. Then you can give it the shape you want, depending on the decorative effect you want. Especially in the middle you can add a small artificial lake, in the form of cascade overlooking the pool, in imitation of small rocks scattered throughout the garden, etc.. And finally, besides the fact that its production is within the reach of any do it yourself, it is more economical compared to the installation of a true rock, shipping included.

To make your fake rock, you need one or more bags of cement type Portland, the number of bags depends on the size rock you want to make. You also need rebar diameter 80 mm and 60 mm frames, wire, and two types of roasting a chicken wire netting mesh fairly narrow and chicken wire with a larger mesh sizes . And because the fake rock is mainly done with concrete, you’ll need to sand, gravel and water. Rubber gloves, a trowel, trowel, and all the paraphernalia of basic masonry is essential to perform the work.

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