Customer Reviews

Suncast BBE10TC 12-inch Interlocking Border Edging

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this product was exactly as pictured on line and has worked well for my garden edging - if you are looking for a simple and easy border product, this one works very well and looks nice

I have used other border edging over the years, but this bar far was the best I have found. I bought over 50 feet of it many years back and edged down along my driveway. It kept the dirt from the garden from constantly getting into the driveway. What is nice on this edging is that the ground fin is in the center of the slim bricks which means about a half inch over laps on both sides of the border. It defines an area nicely and really does look like real brick until you are almost right up on it. I recently had a contractor destroy (with a bobcat) close to 30 feet of my edging when I was having work done on the house. I went online and luckily found that it was still available! I bought extra this time around. I highly recommend these border edges for their heavy construction, ease of driving into the ground, the great interlocking method and the fact that they look close to the real thing. They are also low enough that a mower blade would not hit them if using them to edge the lawn (but I would check first just in case).

i have this border product and it super easy to install, stays in place & looks nice. it was given to me by my mother, who had used it in her garden, then removed it and gave it to me, which shows how sturdy it is. if you are looking for a simple, easy to use border, this is it.

Very easy to install, depending on type of ground you have you may need to loosen dirt or remove large roots. I suggest using a scrap piece of wood and a regular hammer instead of a rubber hammer. If you take a little time to lay out properly you will have great results. Easy to make different size radius bends.

Also seems to be holding up to a line trimmer trimming against it.

We bought these as edging for our front lawn that borders an alley. They look a bit cheesy right out of the box, but are fairly attractive and realistic-looking once in the ground. Hubby said they were very easy to install. Note that once in the ground, the "bricks" don't appear very large at all, but they are nice looking, reasonably priced and easy to install.

This product was simple to install and gives a nice clean edge! It is doing well holding back any dirt run off and looks great. Make sure to order enough!

First, the good part. When I finished the project, it really did look very nice; I even received a few comments about how nice it looked. Nevertheless, the "bricks" still look like plastic, but it is infinitely better than the black vinyl edging that you can buy in rolls.

I think the best use for this is if you are separating a garden from a lawn area where the curves are not too great. There is definitely a limit on how much it will bend. For that installation I would have given it 5 stars.

However, I used this to edge around a concrete walkway in front of my house. Between the walkway and the house, there is a flower garden and I wanted to use the bricks to create an edge beween the walkway and the garden. If this is not your intended use, please skip the rest of this review as it will be rather lenthy and technical.

The walkway has 3 straight sections with 2 sharp angle turns between the sections; the first one is about 24 degrees and the second one is about 10 degrees. It runs from the driveway to the front door. Note that because of the way the brick sections interlock, you have to start either from right to left or left to right; you cannot start in the middle. Which way to start will be obvious when you look at your project. I had to start mine at the driveway. Everything progessed nicely (sort of ... see later comments) until I got to the first angle (24 degrees) and it happened to be exactly in the middle of a brick; and that does not bend. I made the best of it and did a few more section and looked at the result. The border at the angle looked just awful with a big gap where the brick spanned the angle. So I ripped it all up and carefully measured it so that the angle matched up with a joint between the bricks. Of course, that left a big gap at the driveway (I planted some flowers there to cover it up). Then proceeded to the next angle (10 degrees) and that now was also in the middle of a brick; there was no way I could make both of the angles come at a joint between the bricks. I bent the brick as much as possible (only a degree or two) and made the best of it. It being only a 10 degree bend, it did not look too bad.

While I was intalling the brick sections, I noted some occasional resistance when pounding them into the ground. I figured it was small rocks so I just hit them harder with the mallet until they were even with the rest. However, further on, this did not work no matter how hard I pounded. I also noted that the earlier sections that received the hard pounding had popped back up leaving as much as a 1/2" gap. I pulled up the last section that I could not pound in and saw that the points were severely bent, obviously they had encountered some very severe obstruction.

The rest of my comments apply only to a edging around a concrete walkway. To pour a concrete walkway, you need to dig down about 4", edge it with 2x4's, level them and pour the concrete (this was done by a contactor). To level the 2x4's you prop them up with small rocks at various points. That can leaves gaps between the 2x4 and the ground and the conrete will flow under the 2x4's at those spots; and these are the obstruction that I enountered. Of course a 2x4 measures only 1.5" by 3.5" (the 1/2" is lost to sawing and finishing). I then measured the points on the brick sections and found they were 4.125" long, so there could be as much as a 5/8" interference problem. I finally ripped up the offending sections and cut enough of the points off them so that they no longer hit the concrete; I had to use a hack saw since the points were too sturdy to cut with a tin shears. If you want to avoid this hassle, I suggest using a straight bladed spade and see whether you can sink it along the edge to 4.125". Do this before you purchase this product so you are aware of what is ahead of you.

Anyway, the end result is that it looks great, but it was definitely not as easy to install as implied by the decription and the instructions. Thus I give that 4 stars.