visor device over the porch of polycarbonate

canopy over the porch, made of polycarbonate - a stylish, modern solution for the design of the entrance to your home.

If desired, you can easily make a visor with his hands, or to entrust this work to specialists.

Polycarbonate is a solid polymer widely used in everyday life and industry.

Medical instruments, helmets, CD-drives, computers, building materials - this is just a small list where polycarbonate is used.

Transparent plastic insert from this were even medals in the Olympic Games of 2014 in Sochi.In appearance - this is sheets of plastic of varying degrees of transparency, painted every imaginable color of the rainbow.

Why more people when you make a porch prefer polycarbonate?

crucial here has a low cost of the product and the aesthetic impression of it, and easy fabrication and installation of canopies from polycarbonate plates.

This photo shows a successful combination you fancy shape vault canopy over the porch and color solutions.

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Types polycarbonate web

Polycarbonate is widely began to be used only 2 decades ago, now it is available in threetypes - monolithic, mobile and undulating.

Cell has excellent insulating properties, due to its structure.

It is a thin plate joined webs that enables the cross-cut honeycomb structure contained within the air just provides heat retention, so polycarbonate is widely used in the construction of greenhouses.

It polycarbonate can be painted in various colors.polycarbonate sheets are available in thickness from 4 mm to 16 mm, the size of 2.1 mx 6.0 m or 2.1 m by 12.0 m

name of the second type of polymer -. monolith - speaks for itself.

Within this material does not contain voids, it is so well passes light rays that can be used instead of conventional glass.

However, unlike glass, has a heavy-duty: at bench tests pistol shot could not break through the 12-timillimetrovy polymer sheet.

A new development chemists - reinforced anti-scratch polycarbonate - even resistant to scratches.Monolithic polycarbonate is a building material of a wide range of applications.

His appearance for general use are literally exploded the construction market.

thickness of solid polycarbonate sheets, commercially available, ranges from 2 to 12 mm, the size of the sheets of 2.05 mx 3.05 m.

Polycarbonate Sales slightly cheaper monolithic.

Undulating is a kind of monolithic, but differs in appearance and greater durability.

Its waves coincide with waves on metal, so it is often used to repair roofs and devices, in particular - for the device light windows on the roofs.

wavy polycarbonate produced no thicker than 1.2 mm, the height of the sheet up to 5 cm, the standard sheet sizes - 1.26 mx 2.24 m

Advantages polycarbonate

draw attention to the advantages of the web polikabonatnogo:

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• low cost;
• low weight;
• combustibility;
• resistance to temperature extremes;
• resistance to mechanical damage;
• excellent sound insulation and heat-saving quality;
• long operation;
• ease of caring for them;
• plasticity and flexibility;
• diverse color palette.

addition, polycarbonate does not pass and do not absorb moisture, so even when mounted on a wooden frame, you can not use waterproofing materials.

All of these items provide plastic popularity among professional builders and amateurs do everything with their own hands.

polikabonatnogo canopy of fabric: DIY

Manufacturing visor with his hands begin to determine its shape, size and design features.

Will it be a small ledge above the door, a large canopy over the porch - will decide only you.All resulting measurements you need to put on the drawing, and then carefully follow them.

installation features a polycarbonate coating

coating polycarbonate visor can be used on almost any shape, good flexibility of the material allows it to bend radius of 0.7 m.

This point must be considered in the design of your design, as with decreasing radiusplastic sheet can simply break.

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Also do not forget that at least polycarbonate and resistant to different temperatures, its installation (especially curved shape) must be done in a warm environment - in the summer or in the winter in a room with heating.

Polycarbonate cut at the marked saw-grinder or a hand saw, leaf edges do not crumble, although the cutting has to make an effort, and its aesthetic appearance with the right and wrong sides eliminates the need for filing the lower part of the visor.

mount plastic sheets to the frame made with screws with rubber pads.

Make canopy

Believe - make your own hands canopy over the porch with polycarbonate - not so difficult.

you can do to develop the project design input into your home or choose one of the available on the Internet.

Best option when manufacturing canopy over the porch is performed simultaneously with the construction of the house, in this case, in the construction of the wall in the right places, you can just make the mortgage, which in the future will be secured design.

If the awning over the porch is arranged on an already finished building, it will be necessary for securing eyelets, metal corner, a support beam attached above the entrance.

Depending on the materials used and the design, you will need certain tools and fasteners, to pick up the necessary tools to perform the work with his own hands, I think, will not be difficult, and to determine the number of fasteners will help drawing - the same one that we feature in thebeginning.

When calculating the amount of materials make an increase in the penetration of support pillars at the canopy support structure.

to work with metal parts you need welding machine, but, in its absence, it is possible to dispense with aluminum rivets, which demonstrates a master in this video.

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purchased in sufficient quantities necessary materials, begin to assemble the frame.How much and what materials you will need - we all tell the same drawing.

Assembling all supports, other than the reference system is performed on the floor or bench.

then ready for coating carcass is fixed, Vol performed if necessary, coloring, preservative treatment and the like, and a fully assembled element is mounted above the entrance door.

Bending polycarbonate in an arc performed with his own hands without much effort, for convenience, you can use templates-arcs of a metal or plastic profile.

Make the desired profile radius is simple - you need to make cuts every 4-5 cm and bend it to the desired shape.

If your project provides for the installation of support pillars, that this work needs to be done to the frame assembly.In the drawing, mark the territory at the entrance pillar sites.

for reliability and stability of the lower ends of the pillars must be firmly fixed - either mortgage to the porch or concreted into the ground.

In the second variant of fixing in the installation of each post dig pits depth of 0.5-1.5 meters, which puts the lower ends of the support pillars.

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then the remaining space is filled in with concrete mix, and leave the entire structure to concrete fully cured (2-3 days).

Installation visor, his attachment to the supporting pillars can only be made after that date.

Prompt trick: in order to save the concrete after setting pillars of deepening in the ground can be pre-filled with stones of different sizes, and then pour the mortar there.

Please note that the bottom of the metal support poles must be treated with anticorrosive compositions also necessarily requires the use of waterproofing material to prevent damage.

also waterproofing should be used if you make a frame made of wood, wooden constructions additionally need to handle special structures against rot, fire and insects.

implementing the recommendations in this article, you will be able to make their own hands the entrance to your house this work of art, and the use of polycarbonate will provide you with a beautiful, modern, safe canopy over the porch.

As they say, the theater begins with a hanger, but the house - from the porch.Let the first impression of your house will show visitors the hospitality, friendliness and style masters.

Finally we show a few photos where the design of the front of the house, in particular over the porch canopies, polycarbonate is used.

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