Gabion with their hands

What gabion?Roughly speaking, this mesh of wire, filled with large boulders.Gabion walls look pretty good: a low altitude, they can serve as bumpers and low fences at the site of the high turn out beautiful fence.Installation of gabions in the country is possible as the basis for the benches, fences and parking even just a decorative wall for climbing plants.

In terms of garden or suburban area gabions with their own hands can be completely done and this workIt did not take long.Mesh boxes to create gabions can be purchased at specialty stores: a sufficient number of modifications it is sold to satisfy any request.But if you want to make the gabion, as in the photo, the maximum budget, without spending a lot of money, you can make your own box, for example, made of galvanized steel wire and mesh.

Step by step instructions for installing gabions with their hands

initial phase, which will be located gabion carefully aligned hoe.If the soil is loose, you can remove the top 15 cm and make a gravel layer.

If there is a danger that under the gabion can grow weed, so it does not spoil the decorative design design, you can spend a little time on the border to dig out enclosing a groove depth of 10 cm.

Planningfuture construction rose black film from the weeds, which is fixed to the partition board groove.Now you can make the installation of gabions.

welded Mason's net lists with the largest mesh is placed on the ground at the marked portion.By the principle of "gathering box" on all sides of the stacked side plates, pre-cut to the desired dimensions and are woven into a single structure with steel wire.Each end of the wire you need to tighten the pliers so that it does not unscrew.

Next duct wall climb and intertwine with each other vertically.

about every meter, installed inside the structure and also cross-woven panels, which are necessary to ensure that the weight of the grid filled not bulged out.

If the planned construction of a high gabion construction corners and seam locations with transverse sheet can be strengthened reinforcement rods 6-8 mm in diameter.

Fill the gabion can be based on personal aesthetic preferences.For these purposes fit pebbles, cobbles, quarry stone, rubble, gravel, etc. krupnofraktsionny.

Filler should not fall out to the outside through the cells.You can use the filler in different colors and even different quality for spectacular compositions.The stones should be added, picking up the form close to each other, and the angles are better fill the stones having a right angle.

most ugly stones can be placed inside.The voids between the large boulders can be filled with smaller stones.

If the creation of a high fence is planned from gabions on the first box is mounted in the same way a second masonry grid, which forms the second layer.This box is also connected wire, also mounted transverse walls.The filling is also done, as in the lower layer.

Below you can view photos and videos of the process of construction of the gabion.

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Video installation of gabions