Agree, it is always nice to relax on the bench made by your own hands after the work done on the garden plot or even just on a hot summer day. But to make a garden bench with their own hands, you need to know a few simple rules. First, there must be a desire to have on its own site or in the garden comfortable benches. Secondly, you need to have material for their manufacture, as well as the required minimum tool. Well, thirdly, it is necessary to have patience and absolute confidence that the conceived will necessarily work out.
In a global network on various sites, you can find a lot of suitable benches, which can be quite possible to make it yourself. But among the huge number of options offered, finding what will fully comply with the requirements, not easy. What kind of bench want to see in my site or in the garden? First of all, it should be comfortable and nonsense, so that in any weather it could be left on the street, and that the design of the benches was pleasant to the eye.
If there were no suitable pictures on the sites in the network, you can try to make a garden bench with your own hands by trial and errors. If a robust bench is needed, you need to determine what material it is better to make it. There will be more suitable option, of course, metal. Such a bench of painted good paint will not be terrible neither rain, nor hail, nor any other environmental impacts. And what will be the most convenient to sit on the street? Of course on a wooden bench. By connecting the metal and wood, you can easily get the most comfortable and beautiful bench.
How to start making a garden bench?
From drawing up the drawing. By choosing the desired height of the legs, which, for example, is equal to the forty centimeters, you need to determine the required length of the bench. The optimal length is 1.25 m. But if desired, the bench can be done longer, but then you will need to change the attachments of the legs. Next, you need to calculate the amount of material and go to the store.
For the manufacture of a garden bench with their own hands, there will be a pine railings, four centimeters wide and two centimeters thick and the profile tube of the same sizes. Do not buy a profile tube with a large wall thickness, because the bench should not be too heavy. By making all the necessary workpieces and stuck in the sizes of the rail and metal, you can start welding. The perfect electrode for working with such a metal will be a triple. What is the framework to which wooden slats and legs will be mounted? This is a frame with a transverse bar. The size of the upper frame will be 1.25x0.3 m. It can be sworning it to the hardest stage - welding legs. The first time it is difficult to do it hard, but adapting and using the usual level, you can quickly and without much difficulty, spending the legs with the help of the corners sliced in advance and secure the welding to the main upper frame. As a result, it will turn out a fairly durable frame.
Next, you need to clean all the roughness and sprinkles from welding, after which you can start the color of the future bench. The railway racks attached to the upper frame must be preparing and covered in three layers of varnish. For fastening the rails to the frame of the bench, a bolts with a hat, a thickness of 2.5 millimeters and 10 centimeters length are suitable.
Garden benches made in this way will certainly like the whole family and acquaintances who come to visit. Now the place where the whole family is usually going in the yard, will stand out not only by a common table, but also benches. You can even rest on them even lying, for this you just need to move them two. Despite the fact that the benches are deprived of the backs, making them a large number of guests in a row.
Photos and drawings of homemade garden benches
Such gardened benches successfully replace various plastic chairs and chairs. In the courtyard they can be left to the first snow, they are not afraid of any atmospheric precipitation. The benches made by their own hands will become an excellent decoration for a country house, they will be reliable in operation and will serve a long time.
