This type of building as a garden gazebo was popular at all times. This easy and often open parking design came to us from warm sunsen countries: Italy and France.
This pavilion is not only an element of landscape design, perfectly complementing the image of the house and garden, but also performs a practical function. It offers a table and chairs for recreation on a hot summer day, to build a barbell and celebrate family holidays or spending evenings with family and friends. This article would like to devote to the advice on how to make a gazebo from PVC on its summer cottage.
Properties of polyvinyl chloride as material for construction
PVC is a polymer widely used for various technical purposes and with exceptional features. It is often used as a building material due to available cost and excellent performance. What is not made from polyvinyl chloride: elements of external and interior decoration, windows and doors, electrical equipment, various accessories, roofing materials, floor coatings, pipes, panels, ventilation systems, fences, gates and much more. Imagine the main positive and negative properties of PVC as a list.
So, polyvinyl chloride has the following advantages:
- reliability;
- strength;
- large service life;
- universality;
- resistance to the effects of various aggressive chemicals: acids, alkalis, gasoline, etc.;
- inability to carry out electric current;
- waterproof - very useful quality, due to which the plastic gazebo will not deteriate from the rain and high humidity;
- low weight;
- relatively low cost;
- corrosion resistance and adverse weather conditions: heat, frost, fog, etc.;
- not bad thermal insulation qualities.
The disadvantages of PVC include the following:
- release of toxic substances allocated when burning material and negatively affecting the environment, as well as on human health;
- some elements made of PVC can be deformed under the action of high temperatures or excessive physical exertion. Such elements include plastic profiles.
How to make a gazebo do it yourself
Choose a place for design
Before starting construction, it is very important to determine what part of the garden will be placed this construction. If you position the gazebo in the immediate vicinity of housing, it will be convenient for all evenings in it, dinner or drink tea with the whole family, take guests, arrange romantic dates with your loved one. On a hot day, children can arrange games there, hiding in the shade of sunlight.
Placing the gazebo in the depths of the garden is also a pretty good option. So you will create a secluded quiet corner, surrounded by greens and fragrant colors from all sides. There you can spend time alone with you, reading an interesting book and enjoying the rustle of the leaves and singing the birds.
In the classic garden of the right form, it is best to make a gazebo in the heart. Especially beautiful when several paved paths lead to such a building. If your site is a subject for pride, then all invited guests will be able to evaluate him in dignity, admiring the view from the center of the Garden itself.
In the case when the landscape of the household territory has elevations and the slopes - the winning option will be the arbor on the hill near the reservoir. In the absence of a natural source, you can artificially create a small waterfall, cascade or stream. Such a location of the gazebo sometimes imposes an imprint and on her style: the structure in the form of pagodas is most organically near the water.
Determine the size of the structure
The drawing of the arbor means must be built on the basis of its future sizes. To begin with, count the maximum number of people who will have to accommodate your design. At the same time, do not forget about the size of the garden itself, as well as free space in it. Remember that an elegant and lightweight building is best suited for a small area, which will not overshadow all other beauties of the landscape.
Sizes of standard arbors oscillate from 5 to 20 m². For a large family, which will be gathered during the rest under the shady roof, you must put the table and chairs inside the design. If on the perimeter to make benches - it can give additional free space.
The diameter of the round gazebo for a small family can be from 1.8 to 2.4 m, but if you have the opportunity to create a more spacious building - this is your full right.
Collect your arbor with your own hands
Pretty popular now become the most open structures in the country area. They consist of 4 supports and peeps, and the role of walls and windows perform drapes from the fabric. Such a design creates an eastern atmosphere in your garden, because in its appearance, it is very similar to the Arab tent.
The sequence of actions on the construction of the arbor of this type would be described below. It is going from PVC pipes and consists of removable items, so at any convenient time you can disassemble it and move it to another place or hide for storage. As an example, we took a structure with dimensions of 2.3x2 m. To create it, we will need the following materials:
- pVC pipes 2 m long - 6 pcs.;
- pVC pipes 3 m long - 2 pcs.;
- "G" -nya fittings - 4 pcs.;
- "T" -nya fittings - 4 pcs.;
- aBS pipe - 2 m;
- cement, sand, crushed stone and water for a solution;
- pVC fabric or any other curtain matterium.
Mastery gazebo:
- The ABS pipe is cut into four fragments with a length of 40-45 cm.
- On the selected area, we note the place to install the columns and follow the holes there are 30-35 cm into depth.
- In the resulting holes, we set the segments of the dummy pipe and fix with the help of a concrete solution. The ground part of the elements should be about 10 cm.
- Before assembly, the ends of the plastic pipes are well cleaned from dust and process the sandpaper, so that they do not slide.
- Arbor frame collected from PVC pipes, connecting parts with each other with fittings. For greater amenities you can do it in an inverted position.
- The resulting design is deployed by the desired side and connect with segments fixed in the ground.
- You can paint the frame in any color, just to do it with the help of a can, because the tassel on this material the paint lies insufficiently smoothly.
- On the upper crossbars of the arbor, we ride the rings for the curtains and make a curtain of dense matter.
- In order for the pipes with nonsense not disconnected, it is possible to wash the joints with special glue for PVC.
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