Metal fences for lawns - types and methods of manufacturing

In urban squares and parks, in the courtyards of apartment and private country houses, you can often see low metal lawn fences. They are very popular and popular due to their beautiful appearance and ability to prevent trampling of flowers and grass by people and animals.

Such small fences not only protect, but also decorate flower beds and green lawns, giving them a neat and finished design. Installed for a very long time, they must be strong, durable, resistant to all weather conditions and safe. Openwork metal fence as well as possible meet these requirements.

Decorative metal fence

Types of metal lawn fencing

Unlike many other types of fences, which rarely have a height of less than one and a half meters, lawn are made low, 40-60 cm. Their goal is not to close the beautiful landscape from prying eyes, but to emphasize its advantages.

If you just need to prevent penetration into the enclosed area, the solution may be the construction of a solid fence or rental of fencing for construction sites. And lawn fences only indicate the boundaries, warning that in this place you should not walk, walk the dogs or park the car.

Metal fences for lawns can be of three types: forged, welded and combined.

Welded fencing

Such fences are the most simple and inexpensive. The low price is due to ease of manufacture with minimal use of manual labor.

For their production most often used materials such as:

• Profiled square tube 15x15 or 20x20;
• Round tube with a diameter of 25 mm;
• Steel bars of round or square section up to 20 mm;
• Steel strips 4-10 mm wide.

The supporting posts are also made of a shaped pipe, but of a larger section, and decorated with plastic or metal finishes that protect their internal walls from moisture.

Welded lawn fence

Welded metal lawn fences have a simple geometric pattern containing circles, squares, grids, simple curls. Between themselves, all these elements are connected by the method of spot welding. In the same way or with the help of special fastenings, welded sections of the fence are attached to the posts.

Due to the relatively low cost, welded structures are used for fencing large areas:

• Park alleys;
• City squares;
• Yards of apartment buildings and other green areas.

Council If you have the skills of a welder, you can make a simple welded fence for your own backyard.

Forged fencing

Making forged fences is more costly, since artistic forging involves manual labor. As a result, finished products are much more expensive, but they also look more elegant and elegant.

For the manufacture of forged fence used metal strips, rods, thick wire of various sections. The most popular patterns are a floral or floral ornament that allows you to harmoniously fit the metal lawn fence in landscape design. Especially if you supplement them with other wrought-iron elements, such as garden lamps, benches or decorative flowerpots for flowers.

Fencing with traditional floral designs

Forging is mainly used for fencing lawns and flower gardens on the territory of suburban areas of private households. Although such fences can be found in cities, especially in their historical centers.

Combined fencing

Lawn fences can combine different materials, manufactured in a combined way using both welding and artistic forging.

The options can be very different:

• Welded construction with forging elements;
• Forged fences on solid brick or concrete plinth;

Combined lawn fence

• Forged or welded sections on stone, brick or granite support columns;
• The combination of metal welded or forged fences with wooden elements or inserts of other materials.

Decorative painting and corrosion protection

There is no doubt that wrought and even welded fences look much more interesting than, for example, plastic nets for fencing sports grounds. But they need constant care and renewal.

Photos of decorative fencing with bronze painting

Fencing flowerbeds and lawns will last a very long time, if you protect it from corrosion resulting from exposure to atmospheric moisture and other corrosive environments.

For reference. Modern metal structures installed in the external environment are exposed to the harmful effects of sulfur in the atmosphere, which destroys their structure. In addition, unlike forged products of past centuries, they are made of alloys with a high content of impurities, and do not differ in chemical stability.

Therefore, metal fences before installation must be painted with special compositions.

• Acrylic based paints. By themselves, they are not able to reliably protect the product, so the instruction requires you first to cover it with a special primer with additives that inhibit corrosion.
• Paints for metal "Three in one". These are the most popular today means, which include rust converters, primer and decorative coating itself. Their use reduces processing time, since it is not necessary to wait for each layer to dry.

Paints Hammerait - reliable protection of metal products

• Powder spraying. This type of protective and decorative finishing is more suitable for lawn fences. It is the most reliable, durable, besides it allows you to give the design any color, including bronze or copper, to artificially age it.

Conclusion

Beauty, reliability and durability - the main properties of fences for lawns made from metal by forging or welding. Of course, they will require more material costs than wooden or plastic structures, but they will create a unique atmosphere of sophistication in your site.

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