Each owner of a country house dreams of refining its plot using a different type of construction. However, looking at the cost of some of them, many refuse themselves in this pleasure. Today we will tell you as you can build a garden bench that will become an integral attribute of your garden.

Types of garden skams

There are 2 types of benches for the garden:

• garden benches with support backrest;

• garden benches that have no backs.

Material used for garden benches:

• garden benches made of metal (forged);

• garden benches made of wood (made of larch, tick, coniferous rocks, hazel, oak and cherry);

• garden benches of stone (made of concrete, quartzite, coarse granite, white and colored marble);

• combined garden benches (combining the first three components);

• plastic garden benches.

How to make a garden bench

Manufacturing recommendations:

• it is best to choose wood that does not have bitch and easily processing;
• use the wood of local varieties;
• to extend the operational period, use a special coating;
• before starting work on the tree, antiseptic soil should be applied;
• to improve the effect, you can use the color antiseptic;
• it is recommended to apply several layers of varnish on the surface of the finished product;
• the edges of the armrests are best done rounded with a milling machine;
• if you make a bench with a back, then the recommended height should be 40-50 cm from the surface of the Earth;
• the back should be made with a slight inclination of 15 ° -40 °;
• optimum seat width 50-55 cm with inclination angle of 5 ° -12 °;
• the height of the back should be 35-45 cm;
• armrests are installed at an altitude of 15-20 cm from the seat;
• if you make a bench without a back, then its height from the surface of the Earth should be 40-50 cm;
• the finished product must match the overall style of the house and the surrounding buildings.

For the manufacture of a garden wooden bench we will need:

• bayonet shovel;
• level;
• pencil;
• roulette;
• plane;
• chisel;
• hammer;
• wooden hacksaw.

Material used:

• 2 posts of 0.80 m per support or 2 bars 1.5x1.5 cm;
• 4 bar cross section 5x6 cm;
• 2 shoal from wood;
• 2 boards with a cross section of 0.5x1.5 cm, a length of 130 cm (for the seat);
• two plaques with a cross section of 0.25x1.5 cm, a length of 130 cm (for the back);
• a piece of wire;
• spent machine oil;
• old polyethylene film;
• 20 nails 10-12 cm.

Garden bench do it yourself

Progress:

1. Initially, the drawing of the future garden bench should be made.

2. Then we take the bar, we have it on the ground and, retreating from the bottom end of 0.45 m, we apply a long bar at an angle of 30 ° - it will be a support of the back.
3. Place the connection location on the bar, we create a saw feed and choose a groove with a chisel.
4. A similar action is done with a second support.
5. Next, we scroll from the bar two halves of 30 cm (hereinafter, they will be fixed on the upper ends of the bars and serve as horizontal crossbars for the seat).
6. Using nails, and hammer collect left and right support benches, focusing on the recommended parameters.
7. After the supports are ready, their lower part should be soaked with automotive waste oil, wrapped with a film and fix with wire.
8. At the selected area, we dig a pumm with a depth of 40 cm at a distance of 1-1.1 m from each other.
9. We mount the supports in them and put on top of the board, intended for the seat.
10. We check the level of the surface horizontal, we fall asleep with sand and land, we produce a rambling.
11. You feed the boards for the seat and for the back, cover the design with a special protective impregnation.

Recommendations:

• to increase the strength of the product, you can cut special grooves in places of bars;
• for fixing the design, it is best to use screws;
• if roughness and irregularities occur, they can be sharpened.

Features of the manufacture of a garden bench made of metal:

• forged garden benches are most often produced on the basis of a metal frame with elements of openwork decorative forging. On top of it fixed on a tree;
• wooden planks are covered with a special protective agent: antiseptic frost-resistant, especially durable varnish and mourn;
• to create a wooden flooring, solid trees are used, such as: cherry, beech, walnut, larch, oak, etc.

Where to locate a garden bench

The garden bench is best established under the shadow of the trees, in the gazebo, next to the sandbox, under the windows or at the porch. If there is a fountain on your site, you can put it up with a side with it, so that in the hot summer to enjoy the coolness of fresh air and shimmering droplets of water, which soars in the sky.

Thus, it does not matter what type of garden benches you choose, the main thing is to give it a completeness, hospitability and maximum comfort, which is so necessary in our time. At the same time, the product performed with their own hands will emphasize not only your exquisite taste, but also a unique fantasy and love for your home.

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