A fence made of bricks with their hands

Man has learned to protect your home for a long time - first fences were built to protect it from hostile neighbors, well, in today's world, the fence is a means of achieving greater comfort and create your own individual world.Fenced off from the surrounding materials can be different - some people erecting tall wrought-iron fence, while others are limited to a small wooden palisade.Well, we in this article together with the site "House of Dreams" will learn to build a massive fence made of brick, which, with the right approach to construction, are a significant obstacle to intruders and, at the same time, a good decoration of territory.

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How to choose brick for fence

Modern plants produce a rich assortment of various bricks - from conveyors brickworks go not only to the usual red and white bricks for us.Along with a large number of them produced the so-called decorative brick design features which are much higher.So what is best for brick fence?

Of course, the red brick rubble, designed for rough masonry piers and backfilling empty space between the decorative materials.For construction fences, at least, requires bricks intended for laying face - at least an ordinary white called silicate.

Ideally, if you want a beautiful, and most importantly a solid fence, the fence must be used for decorative brick.Facing bricks to construct the fence allows not only monotonous fence, but also by a combination of bricks of different colors and even shapes to build a kind of work of art, which will attract the eye of people passing by.

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A red brick intake is considered to be a kind of classic.Watching such protections great and wonderful fit for any landscape design.However, the most attractive option is a combination when intake decorative brick used in conjunction with any other material.Excellent look of brick fences and forged components, also looks good brick, combined with floorings - in general, the options for imagination here a lot and you can use almost any material.The main thing is that it fits harmoniously into the intake structure and look good on the background of the surrounding landscape.

Another option fencing - it is an imitation of brickwork.This task can easily handle modern concrete fences with the corresponding pattern.

Concrete fence imitation brick

How to build your own brick fence

Building brick fence begins with the foundation.You can not just, on the bare ground to build a massive fence and be confident in the durability of the construction.The foundation under the brick wall of poured concrete - its depth should not be less than two feet and a width equal to the size of columns.At the height of the foundation must be done slightly above ground level.To brick did not pull moisture from the soil and does not saturate salts that leave white spots, it should not come into contact with the ground.

very important point of construction of the foundation is its reinforcement - to the fence stood a long time, the prepared for pouring concrete formwork is necessary to lay stranded knitting with wire surround frame of the valve with a diameter of at least 10mm.Only with this approach to the case, you can build a good quality and heavy brick fence.

to build a foundation, you can practice and fence construction, but first you must correctly calculate the required amount of material.Calculation of brick fence for - employment is quite simple.Knowing the size of a brick, you first need to calculate how much they will go to one bar and one flight, then multiply by the number of spans and get the finished result.Typically, the number and span the distance between the bars is determined based on the total length of the fence erected - it has an average of about 2 m.Spans greater length, laid out in a half-brick, they are not very reliable and are rapidly destroyed.

Now, having acquired the required number of bricks, sand and cement (with the latter will have to decide by experience), you can start directly with the construction of a fence from a brick.

First we need to perform waterproofing - using an ordinary roofing material must be separated from the masonry foundation.The reliability of the fence will not be harmed, but the moisture from the soil through the concrete it will not pull.Roofing felt just fit the top of the foundation, and the surplus, so as not to spoil the appearance of the fence, then cut off with a sharp knife.

Now it came and to the masonry - in almost all cases, a brick masonry fence begins with columns.They fit into one brick thick, that is, on the basis of the foundation lies a couple of bricks, between which is held the same distance.The following two bricks stacked in the opposite direction - that is, each row of stacking bricks in the other direction, rigidity of the column.

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very important issue for finishing brick masonry is the observance of the evenness of joints - to the eye, as was done previously, the high quality of the masonry is not achieved.Beautiful brick masonry fence is achieved through the use of a template, which appears in the form of a round rod diameter 8-10mm.He laid on the previous row of bricks exactly on the edge of the masonry.All the rest of the space is laid a solution.When the top row is laid, and a little podstynet, the rod can be gently pulled out.The use of this template allows you to kill two birds with one stone - with the help and at the same time achieved a seam evenness and uniformity of filling it with a solution.In addition, wipe and smear the seams do not have a brick.

During the construction of the columns should take care of a bunch with a thin brick span - to provide such a link and make parts of a single whole fence will help fittings.A couple of small pieces of reinforcement is laid every three to four rows in the exact place where the bars are connected to the span of a brick fence.

Photo fences of brick

Wondering how to build a brick fence with his hands, should understand and detrimental effects of water penetration into the brick holes - freezing, water expands and thus destroys the brick, as a consequence, the wholefence as a whole.From this natural phenomenon it is necessary to insure - it is for this reason that most brick wall in its upper part is covered by a metallic sheen.In principle, if the kind of metal flashings have not admirable, they can be replaced with a thin layer of high-quality cement waterproofing - it is applied as a plaster and two thin layers in different directions.

Here and fences are built of brick.The principle of the construction is the same for all variants of the fence - the fence, even combined arranged on the same type.The only difference is the span of the brick height, which usually does not reach two feet - rest of the space is put another type of material.

author Vladimir Belov