The Best Way to Create Concrete Landscape Borders

This video is going to cover every step of the project from planning your layout to prepping the site to building the concrete forms and finally the fun part which is pouring and finishing the concrete.

So as you can see, this project starts with the front of the house looking pretty pitiful.

The idea is when the concrete curb expands and contracts, it's going to be able to do so against something that's a little bit malleable and flexible as opposed to something rigid which could cause cracks.

So after getting that expansion joint in place, we're going to use a stake to hold it in place.

After putting the stake in, use a six foot level to make sure that your form board is perfectly level all the way across.

After giving the concrete a few minutes to set up, I used an edging travel along the inside edge and that's going to give us that professional looking rounded surface that you see on most concrete projects.

After counting over the edges and finishing the face of the concrete, I took my finishing travel and I started to smooth out the surface.

Meanwhile, my brother was just finishing up rounding out that corner.