Garden bench to give their own hands
Do you want to decorate the cottage with exclusive benches that would be not only beautiful, but also comfortable, and not expensive? Then you should start making your own garden bench. The ergonomic design and style of each small architectural form must meet strict requirements for it, and the shops in this list are also no exception. First of all, you should take into account individual preferences in accordance with the level of comfort and the overall concept of landscape design.
Comfortable, functional and attractive benches should always be placed so that you can clearly see the individual elements of the landscape, such as water bodies, rock gardens, flower beds, flower arrangements, etc. With all this, resting on the selected forms, you can effectively emphasize other objects. , and not only to equip places of admiring the landscape.
Solid wood
If you do not have much time to construct complex benches, a simple solid wood construction would be the best solution. For the construction of such a shop you will need a solid array. For the markup you will need tools:
- Joiner pencil.
- Bubble level.
- Roulette.
Perhaps every owner of the dacha has these tools in his arsenal.
In addition, for cutting the array you will need:
- Saw (tenoning with a pick),
- Ax.
- Hobbies
- Plane.
- Machine for working with wood.
Of course, with a power tool, you will make the bench faster, but even without it, you can build a great solid wood product. After giving the shop the desired shape, process it with a special anti-rotting agent.
Choose durable wood, such as oak.
From bars and tubular rings
This type requires little skill in working with the welding machine and gas torch. First, you need to make 2 rings, pre-conceived diameter. A crossbar in the rings is necessary to secure the wooden slats that will serve as a seat. As a ring, you can use a conventional metal pipe.
To make a circle from a metal pipe, you should initially fill it with sand. This will help avoid its deformation or fracture. If you need to bend a steel or aluminum pipe, then you will need a gas burner with which you can heat the metal by fixing the workpiece in a vice. Preheat it in the place that will be bent. Before you begin to shape the product, check whether the metal is sufficiently heated.
If we are talking about an aluminum pipe, then bring the paper to the place of heating - it should smoke or ignite. If you warm the steel pipe, then determine the heat, will help change its color in the place of heating to bright red. Cross the crossbar of the metal profile, weld the welding machine.
Now let's talk about wooden slats for seating. If you do not have a lot of free time, you can buy wooden slats or bars of the desired thickness and width in a specialized shop, but you can also make them yourself. This problem is solved very quickly on a woodworking machine. If you do not have this, then you can cope with the work with a jigsaw. Finished slats must be treated with an antiseptic agent that prevents decay, and then opened with varnish or painted them in the preferred color.
Acquire only such a lacquer (or paint), which is designed for outdoor use.
While the slats will dry out, you can make holes in the cross bar that you will need to fix them. Do not forget to take into account that a certain gap should remain between the slats.
Now you need to pour the base under the bench. Here you can use the principle of pouring a shallow monolithic column foundation. How to do it? Dig a hole 50x50 cm in size, no more than 30 cm deep, then cover the base with a layer of 10 cm rubble. Knead the concrete and fill it with the foundation, but think over how to fix the rings. You can weld 2 legs on each ring and deepen them into the foundation.
Weld a small piece of rebar to the head of the bolt. This will not allow the bolt to rotate when loosening the nut.
The final process will be the assembly of the structure, and fixing it on the base of the foundation.