A country house opens up great opportunities forThose who prefer a beautiful and bright design of their site. For example, the decoration of any garden are wicker hedges, which always look original and colorful. In addition, this design is quite inexpensive, and erect a wicker fence with your own hands is easy and simple, because it is made of twigs, branches that are bound
Harvesting of branches
To begin with it is necessary to be reserved by a material, namelyrods. This can be a vine, willow, hazel and any other shrubs and trees with flexible branches. Installation begins with the fact that at a distance of about 50 cm from each other pegs are driven in. If the bars weigh a lot, the distance will increase. A braided fence with its own hands is created, as a rule, from rods and branches harvested in the spring or autumn. As the pegs can use pine branches of greater thickness, their lower ends are pointed and treated with bitumen or vitriol. Twist the stakes horizontally with rods. For weaving willfully approach the willow branches, because they are quite flexible. So, you need to stock up for work:
- Willow twigs;
- pegs of metal;
- carpenter's hammer;
- strong wire.
How to make a wicker fence?
Кстати, если планируется функциональная и прочная fence, the rods must have a thickness of at least 2-3 cm, and for the creation of a decorative fence, branches with a thickness of 1-2 cm are suitable. Most often, the fence remains natural natural color, but you can make it different. For example, to give the branches a certain shade, you can use stain or manganese, vitriol and even lacquer.
Before you start making wicker fence its hands, you need to prepare the branches:clean them from the bark, then immerse them in the water with thick ends. This is necessary to isolate the juice. A week later, the bars are cleaned with a special device called a "sneeze" - this is a kind of narrow fork with internal edges sharpened. It consists of two parts, between which a branch is inserted and pulled by itself. By the way, it is this part of the work that is most complex and time-consuming.
Once the vine is prepared, it is dried. The fence itself can be made using horizontal or vertical weaving - it depends on the wishes of the owner.
Wicker fence its hands are being built in several stages:
1. Fence supports are installed - they must be of the same height and thickness. If the weave is vertical, then between the poles you will need to install cross-pieces -
2. Horizontal weaving begins from the bottom of the fence. The bars "snake" one after another lead for different sides of the supports. The tips of the rods need to be fixed with wire for reliable construction.
3. The vine must be constantly sealed with a carpenter's hammer, and the ends of the rods should be located on the inside of the fence.
Here is a wicker fence ready with your own hands.The photo shows all the beauty and harmony of this design, if it is made correctly. You can use such a fence inside the plot, for example, when dividing it into zones, or you can enclose the entire plot as a whole.
