We make a fence from a professional flooring with your own

17-01-2018

Fence

Manor with a house in the private sector always needs fencing and even if it does not protect from dashing people, but nevertheless the psychological barrier is undoubted, and the neighboring animals will not walk around the garden.

Below we will look at how to put a fence made of corrugated flooring with your own hands and what is required for this.

Fence of corrugated

Installation and materials

Decking

Decking разного цвета и структуры

To understand how to make a fence of corrugated board, first of all, you need to understand the structure and dimensions of the material with which you will work. So, such a product is a cold-formed sheet profile with the shape of a trapezoidal corrugation with different width and pitch. Sheets are made either galvanized or galvanized with a paint coating and a protective film.
The length of the sheet can reach 13m, but for the fence most often use samples of 120 or 150 cm long. The width of such specimens can be 1200, 1150 and 1060 mm, with an operating range of 1150, 1100 and 1000 mm, respectively. Wave step for sampling does not matter, as long as the whole batch is the same.

Fence frame

Council Before starting work, mark the area, drive in the pegs and stretch the thread between them to level the fence.

Attachment options for metal fence posts

First of all, you will need a vertical frame of the structure, otherwise, how to screw the decking onto the fence evenly if there is no hard foundation? To begin with, we will consider the simplest option with columns from a metal profile for a fence (pipe, rectangle, square).
The figure above shows four ways of how you can install metal poles with your own hands and the dimensions of their immersion into the ground. Of course, you can use any of these methods, but the first one will soon weaken and lead to rapid corrosion of the metal of the lower part of the profile, and a similar corrosion attack will be in the third case, because the butt will get moisture.
The situation is somewhat better in the second case, when the butt of the profile is half filled with cement mortar. But, nevertheless, it is also undesirable to install a fence with corrugated flooring with your own hands on such a frame, because in any case the butt will rust due to ingress of groundwater inside the profile, because it is protected only from above, and then half.
The best option of all is the fourth one and you can safely install a fence and a gate made of corrugated flooring with your own hands on such a frame - it will stand and stand for a long time. But this is not the only method of installing supports for the frame.

Installing a concrete column

But as for the concrete columns for the fence, here the approach is somewhat different, but their price is higher than for ordinary pipes with a different profile. Concrete support can be installed directly into the ground, without filling the pit with cement mortar, but it is necessary to pitch with rubble. You can also use construction waste, which always remains after the construction or repair of the building - this includes solid waste: broken brick, knocked down cement plaster, stones, metal, and so on.

Brick poles for the fence

Of course, if you make fences of corrugated flooring with your own hands, the most chic will be the columns of decorative bricks. But to mount such a support, you should first look at the fourth version of the installation of metal posts, where the pipe in the ground is completely filled with cement mortar. After mounting such a profile, it is lined with brick and poured with cement mortar, as shown in the schematic illustration above.

Lag consoles are attached to the metal profile

Pay attention to the photo above, and you will see how the bracket for lags on the fence is attached. In this situation, this is done with the help of bolts, then there will be no error if you fix the consoles with the help of electric or gas welding, the main thing is that these ears should go strictly parallel to the fence.

Council To make it more convenient for you to brick a metal column and fix brackets on it evenly, use a square or rectangular profile. Install it so that the inner and outer planes are strictly parallel to the fence.

Mounting the gate support

Also, making a fence out of corrugated flooring with your own hands implies hanging the gate and the gates in this fence. To this end, the construction of the support provides for mortgages, on which you can later fix the sheds for the valves or attach an additional metal profile to them for the fence, which will be the basis for the loops.

Location lag for fixing corrugated

When you watch videos or movies and see a professional sheet fence there, you are unlikely to be shown the inside of the fence, where logs pass, to which, in fact, the lining is attached. Such jumpers can be fixed to the posts, more precisely, to the brackets, after mounting the supports, but you can also do without the consoles altogether, securing the horizontal profiles to the vertical ones, as a whole before laying the brick.
However, the sequence of work does not have much value, and in this sense, the solution of the question of how to put a fence out of corrugated flooring is up to you. In such cases, the question of the amount of lag for the frame is more relevant, because they can be installed only at the top or bottom, but you can also add another one in the middle. But this, rather, will depend on the height of the fence and on the expected loads, because sometimes even a corner of 50 × 50 mm is put on the upper edge of the sheet in the form of an additional jumper.

Council For jumpers on the fence from the profiled sheet, you can use both a profile and a metal strip (in the middle) and a corner (above and below). But the most durable while maintaining the aesthetic qualities remain rectangular profiles of 20 × 40 mm.

Caps for brick columns

Council A brick column without a cap will look unfinished, so you need to cover it with a hat. Such products are made of concrete, tin and plastic and are always available in the corresponding outlets.

Build a fence

Colored self-tapping screws

Before you fasten the sheets to the installed frame, that is, to metal lags, select the screws to match the color of your fence so that there are no stains in the form of heads. This is not difficult to do, because they are painted in almost all the colors of the RAL table, in any case, under any shade of corrugated board.
But how to fasten the profile on the fence, if the profile of metal? Some may authoritatively declare that for this purpose there is a metal screw to screw it into the body of the console, and the hole, they say, it will cut through itself. Do not fall for such statements, although if you want - try - for one fastener, you will most likely spend several screws and a lot of extra time.

Fastening sheets to frame profiles

In order to screw the screw into the metal lag without problems, you need to drill a hole 1 mm smaller than the diameter of the screw. It is noteworthy that with this method of mounting you not only increase the speed of installation, but also save material.
In some cases, the manufacture of corrugated fences is done in sections, that is, the sheets are framed in a corner and then attached to the logs. Then the whole fence will look like assembled from panels.

Conclusion

As you see, it is easy to make a fence out of corrugated flooring with your own hands, because even a picket fence requires more attention and patience. But you can always improvise in your work by adding something of your own, as long as the technology is not broken.