Plastic bottle fence - fast, cheap, and original
Deposits of used plastic containers in the country - the perennial problem. Of course, it can be burned, but one does not want to poison the clean air, which rarely manages to breathe, with acrid smoke! Therefore, we will try to find a decent use for it. For example, let's think about how to make a fence from plastic bottles.
Easy and transparent bottle fence
They have been making various crafts for a long time - decorative and quite utilitarian, so why not use them as a building material for fencing a garden plot or at least parts of it?
How to use bottles
Food plastic, from which disposable dishes and bottles are made, is a sufficiently strong material that is not susceptible to destruction from exposure to moisture, sun, high or low temperature, and other environmental influences. Therefore, it is great for the construction of not only fences, but also other various street constructions. For example, the original gazebo, shed or greenhouse.
Summer house
Most often, the cylinders are used as is - entirely, with traffic jams. But they can be cut lengthwise, removing the bottom, into several pieces-shtakin. And you can take only bottoms or traffic jams and decorate them with an old wooden fence.
Colorful fence from plastic bottles
There are many options, but if you are faced with a double task: to build a fence and dispose of plastic cylinders, then we will consider only those that involve "waste-free production." Be sure that such a fence is the cheapest.
Most likely, your stocks will not be enough for you, and you will either have to replenish them, driving along friends and acquaintances, or building in stages, as the spontaneous appearance of new bottles on the site and in its vicinity.
Types of "bottle" fences and methods of their construction
Fences made of plastic bottles can be very different in appearance and purpose.
- The easiest option - the fence flower beds, flowerbeds, garden paths, their visual selection.
Fence for ornamental plants
- Frame fence. Light, transparent or translucent (depending on the color of the bottles), which serves as an ornament rather than a reliable barrier for uninvited guests.
- Capital fence - the most costly option, involving the use of a binder solution. But the price of cylinders filled with sand or earth is, nevertheless, incomparable with the cost of a brick or stone, therefore we will consider this option.
What is the better and cheaper fence? Read about it below, and now - in more detail about the methods of construction of each type.
Low decorative fences
The bottom of the bottle itself is very much like a flower, especially if it is colored accordingly. It is better to do this from the inside so that the paint does not peel off over time.
The fence of plastic bottles for a flower bed or path is very simple: they just dig into the ground at the desired depth. So you can make a multi-tiered flowerbed - the height of the container allows it.
Council To keep the bottles in the ground well, they can be filled with sand or earth to make them heavier and to keep in shape.
Original flowerbed - ladybug
You can use cylinders of different colors and sizes, digging them upside down with a bottom or a lid, thereby creating unique garden creations.
Frame Fences
The name itself suggests that for the construction of such fences need frame. It can be wooden or wire.
Council Alternatively, you can use a chain-link mesh with the size of the cells corresponding to the diameter of the bottles. The latter are tightly inserted into the cells of the grid in a certain order, creating a pattern, ornament or even the whole picture.
Rabbit Fence Decoration with Colored Bottles
Ниже дан мастер класс по устройству забора высотой 1 метр на проволочном frameе с опорами из металлических труб.
- Prepare the required number of identical in shape and volume of plastic bottles. Of the five pieces it turns out one "shtaketina" meter-high.
Council Remove the labels immediately so that later your creation does not take an untidy look.
- Four of the five cylinders carefully cut the bottoms and put them on each other, and then on the fifth bottle with a whole bottom.
Manufacturing "shteketin"
- Drill each column of bottles through and through from above, below and in the middle with a drill equal to the diameter of the wire. They also make holes in the center of the cut off bottoms.
- Further instruction is as follows: collect the spans of the future fence from the resulting pillars and bottoms, as shown in the picture. The number of columns in one span can be any, and depends on the distance between the supports.
Part of the span
- Finished spans can be welded or fastened to the supports by cutting the threads at the ends of the wire and securing them in the holes of the supports with the help of nuts.
Ready fence
Можно поступить проще: изготовить frame из деревянных брусков, прикрутить к нему бутылочные пробки, а затем вкрутить в них и сами бутылки. Следующий брусок кладется на донышки баллонов, на него укладывается следующий ряд пробок, которые прикручиваются к бруску и одновременно к дну вышестоящей бутылки.
The photo shows how the fence is made on a wooden frame
Capital construction
In this case, plastic packaging is used as bricks. It is filled with earth and stacked in rows on a cement or clay mortar, bottoms out.
For reference. Similarly, you can make and the fence of glass bottles. It is even simpler, since they do not need to be filled with anything, it is only necessary to close the lids tightly to avoid condensation.
Not only fences are built from this material, but entire houses.
Putting one row, fill the space between the bottles with mortar and start stacking the next one in a checkerboard pattern. And so on until you reach the right height.
Upon completion of construction, the fence can be plastered on both sides or left as is.
Conclusion
After reading this material and watching the video, you were able to make sure that it was not at all difficult to build a fence from plastic bottles with your own hands. Perhaps the biggest problem will be collecting building material. But this is just a matter of time (see also the article “Installation of fences in suburban areas: practical ideas”).