After the fill of the new scene for the house, I had a bag of cement. It is not stored for a long time, quickly loses its characteristics and after a couple of months it can just turn into a stone. Here I thought: what is useful to do from the remains of cement? I looked for information - and I realized that you can do almost everything. I'll show you how to make out street furniture, flowerbed and a small pond.
Waterfall with mini-pond
As the basis for the design, we take a regular sheet of foam. This insulation is sold in the construction market. His leaf size is 1 × 1 m and a thickness of 5 cm stands in Lerua 96 rubles.
The technology of manufacturing sculpture from such a material is simple - it is necessary to make a foam model and deceive a sufficiently thick layer of cement mortar.
Therefore, first draw on a sheet of foam of the base of the base. Cut the detail along the contour by the stationery knife or heated soldering iron. Special accuracy is not needed here.
We choose a deepening under the pond.
We make a liquid solution from cement and sand and brush we apply it to the foam.
We increase the design by the next levels of foam, fastening them with bamboo sticks for sushi. Put the tube for water supply and apply the solution again.
We establish foam details of the next design level.
Connect the corrugated hose to the plumbing pipe and we climb it with a solution in the "wall".
The other end of the hose is carried out in the pond.
When the waterfall is dry, it must be painted with paint along concrete. Semi-dry brush or pen can be applied to the masonry imitation.
It remains to connect a compact water pump. Waterfall ready.
Turn on the pump - water from the lower pond began to be applied to the top.
The base for the foundation will be ordinary bricks. In principle, the waterfall itself can also be folded from bricks and to deceive with a solution, but then the design will be very severe and low.
Decorating the waterfall. We have decorative pebbles, landflowers.
Run fish, turn on the pump. Sit down next, pour a cocktail and begin to construct water streams.
Table headset for the street
On the foam for form, you can save, replacing it with conventional sand. The technology is approximately the same - we make the shape of raw sand and failed its surface with a solution. When he dries, remove the sand and get a hollow construction from concrete, which is easy to move on the site. Such technology seriously saves cement consumption.
So, for the table covers, we make a flat "slicker" from the sand. Maximize it as possible for the desired size. Cement mortar can be kneaded directly on Earth.
Fract the slicer with a solution, put the reinforcement. It is better, of course, put the reinforcement grid with a cell of 100 mm or less and a rod thick 3 mm. But if it is not, any metal rods are suitable. Then again we apply the solution and thoroughly align the top of the lid.
We proceed to the manufacture of legs for the table. We will play in the "kulichiki" in an adult! Put the plastic tank with wet sand, turn over. It turned out a large "slicker" with a height of about 70 cm. It will be a feet of a table that can be given the author's uniform. Carefully failing it first liquid, and then a thick cement solution with a thickness of 2 cm. We should be damped on the leg (better - thin, 3-4 mm in diameter). Several Armaturin have vertically, 2-3 - let the circle at different heights. Mind with solution, align the surface.
When the cement solution is dry, remove the sand from the detail. The lid turn inside out and add several armaturin to the center (they can be "planted" to all the same cement solution). They will be needed when docking the cover with the base.
We set the leg on the lid so that the fittings come inside the legs. A couple of times deceive with cement mortar. Pour it into the leg so as to close the reinforcement. When the solution is grabbed, the parts will be securely connected.
While the solution dries, we think how to paint the table. First you need to apply good primer under the paint along the concrete (for example, on a polyurethane basis). Sold - in construction hypermarkets, however, it is expensive. But on such a primer, paint will fall very high quality.
Mobile table with gray paint and apply white strokes. From afar, it will look like it is squeezed out of gray granite. It will not hurt to apply the finish coating - a couple of layers of polyurethane varnish.
Stools to the table are made by the same technology. If you are in paints along the concrete of different colors, you can try to color the cement under the tree. With a certain skill of painting, a concrete bench after painting cannot be distinguished from wooden.
The manufacture of the garden headset cement will need less than 1 bag.
Street vase - section decoration
Perform the sculpture itself from concrete - much cheaper than buying boring clay gnomes and birds. We have everything strictly, but gracefully: two hands hold the flower in which another flower grows. Right symbol of the celebration of nature!
You do not need to be a sculptor to cut hands. It is necessary to find a suitable form to pour into it a solution. Therefore, we take two thick rubber gloves and insert the reinforcement into each finger. And then a concrete solution to them.
The vase-flower itself is made of burlap, impregnated with cement mortar. The technology of its manufacture - like the table. Find the surface needed, cover it with a piece of burlap. Then they impregnate it first with liquid cement mortar, and then - more dense. Look more in the master class:
- How to make street vase using cement
Then connect your hands from gloves with a cement flower with a concrete solution.
Hands set on two round bases that can be cast in any plastic forms. We include fantasy and paint the sculpture with paints on concrete.
We plant your favorite flower into it. This vase is not exactly not to buy!
