Lawn fences - types and functions

A good lawn is always surrounded by forged or welded lawn fences. This is an axiom. You can talk about the culture of society as much as you like, but nature knows no better way to raise its level than the lattice.

Lawn fences are indispensable for the improvement of the territory.

Types and features

Forged

Forged fence not only protects, but also decorates the lawn.

Forged lawn fence - a sign of taste. This is not only an effective barrier for negligent citizens, motorists and animals, but also an element of landscape design that decorates the entire courtyard.

Today, truly forged products are extremely small, and their price is simply too high for many citizens, so more often there are fences forged on machine tools.

Cold forging machines make elements of future lattices and fences, such as curls, balusters, cones, crow's feet, spikes, sheets, clusters, baskets and twisted rods. Next, the master produces bending, refinement and processing of parts, which are subsequently welded together.

The photo shows that the product consists of repeating elements made on a forging machine and welded together.

Of course, at the request of the customer can be made completely forged in the traditional way product. But it is necessary to understand that this is very hard work, a lot of time and considerable expenses. Plus, the master will work with his own hands, and it is always more expensive.

Naturally, the cost of such work can not be low or even average, especially since there are few real masters, and the demand is large enough.

Lawn fences made with elements of art forging, often used for such purposes:

• For fencing of separate zones of house adjoining plots in private households;
• As an element of landscape design, and forging will fit perfectly in a modest area, and in a luxurious villa with expensive gazebos, well-groomed plants and perfect walkways;
• As fences for parks, city gardens, lawns at institutes, institutions, state enterprises and private companies. Forged lawn fencing emphasizes the status of the object, its importance and level;
• As the entourage of the old, gothic or medieval style. If the owner of an old building with characteristic architecture wants to emphasize its age, beauty and exclusivity, then forged products must be present necessarily.

Tip! Before you order a wrought product, ask the master for his competence, his reputation, experience and the duration of his work in the blacksmithing business. Today there are a lot of self-named blacksmiths who bought machine tools and believe that this is enough. But without knowledge, you can spoil the metal, telling him too much stress when processing in the wrong modes.

So, if you are looking for not only a lawn fence, but also an element of decor, landscape design, you want to emphasize the style or age of the building, to give respectability and significance to the place - feel free to purchase products with elements of artistic forging.

Welded

Lawn welded fences can be found everywhere.

Although it has already been noted that most of the fences with artistic forging are welded, nevertheless, welded fences are structures consisting of straight bar, pipe, section products or plates..

Sometimes there may be elements made on pipe benders or other forging machines, but as a rule, they are few and uncomplicated.

Welded structures consist of the following elements:

1. Racks or columns that are dug into the ground.
2. Sections consisting of a frame or upper and lower bars and lattice, sometimes there are other configurations.

The cost of such products is noticeably lower than forged counterparts, which makes welded-type lawn fences more accessible and more popular. They can be found in ordinary yards of apartment buildings, in parks, gardens, squares, on sidewalks and streets.

Typical for the urban courtyard fence for lawns, practical and inexpensive.

It should be noted that welded structures have a number of economic and practical advantages:

• Do not require the work of complex machines and mechanisms, labor master blacksmith and artist;
• They are made from simple elements that are sold in finished form and do not require additional processing;
• Do not attract vandals and other marauders-metal detectors;
• Durable and durable;
• It is possible to assemble directly at the facility, it’s enough for the work to have a grinder and electric welding;
• Work is progressing much faster than in the case of forged products.

Usually the length of sections ranges from 1.5 to 3 meters. The height of structures is from 40 cm and higher, usually not more than one and a half meters. The length of the columns-racks, naturally, is longer, since they need to be dug into the depth of soil freezing and concreted.

Tip! When buying a welded fence, pay attention to the quality of the welds: they must be smooth, monolithic, without flash and oxide peel. The quality of the anti-corrosion coating is also important. The life of the product depends on these indicators.

You can make a fence yourself, if you have experience with metal and arc welding. Draft grid designs can be found online.

They also sometimes use plastic nets for fencing sports fields as lawn fences. Such solution seems to us inexpedient and suitable only for temporary installation.

Installation

The fenced lawn automatically takes on a well-maintained and well-groomed appearance.

Installing a lawn fence is a simple procedure that requires a minimum of skills and resources.

For all such products one instruction is valid:

1. We mark the territory and determine the position of the corner columns;
2. In the corners we set the first posts and stretch the rope at the height of the fence;
3. At a distance equal to the length of the span (section), taking into account the fixings, we drill holes in the ground, into which we insert the racks of the fence and set them on the level strictly vertically;
4. We reinforce and concrete the racks, wait for the concrete to harden (2 - 3 days);
5. Weld intake sections to racks, use level to control horizontal position;
6. We clean the weld seams with a grinder with a stripping disc, primed and painted untreated areas.

The process of building fence

Tip! If you plan to install lawn fences in the city, you can use the rental of fences for construction sites. This will save you from unauthorized persons in the work area and speed up the work.

Do not neglect the fittings and high-quality concrete, since it affects the period during which the entire structure will serve. The depth of concreting is not less than the depth of soil freezing.

Conclusion

With the fence, you can not worry about the safety of the appearance of lawn grass

As you can see, installation and installation are simple, but, nevertheless, before working on the production of a fence, GOST for lawn fences should be examined, there is a lot of useful information. It is easier, of course, to buy a ready-made set of racks and sections, and assemble the structure. In the presented video in this article you will find additional information on this topic.