Using gabions for a recreation area 117 photos

But today the original design has gained great popularity in private construction and landscape designe. Judge for yourself what is more profitable, a brick fence or a fence made of gabions? After all, for the fence you need to make a foundation, and this is reinforcement, cement, and the brick itself is not cheap, you still need to hire craftsmen, not everyone knows how to make masonry on their own.

 

For gabion, if you have your own free stone, you just need to spend money on a metal grid and you can not buy ready-made forms, but make the boxes yourself. This, of course, is not so simple, but if you are interested, you can see how gabion is arranged here. And if you buy ready-made, then there are no problems at all, collect the box, fasten the internal partition so that the structure does not “spill over” and can be loaded with stones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gabions are ideal for implementing various ideas in landscape design. They are used to create slopes of an alpine hill, flower beds near ponds, garden paths. True, you will have to tinker with the track, you will have to dig deep, but then you will not know grief with it, because gabions will perfectly keep the soil from erosion. So do the whole flight of stairs, it will stand idle for a long time or build a small waterfall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using small architectural forms as decorative elements, you can originally decorate the site, make an unusual flowerbed, or use it to arrange, say, a terrace.

Options can be very different, from flowerpots make flowerpots, bowls, flower girls, various figures, containers for hygrophilous plants. True, non-standard forms will have to be done manually. Of course, today you can order anything for good money, but I have no idea how much it will cost.

But it is very beautiful, the workshops made decorative gabion will even decorate the living room.

 

Gabion retaining wall

 

Landscaping and waterfalls are great, besides this, with the help of a gabion you can organize yourself a cozy corner for relaxation, as in this photo. Of course, you can make a wall of wood or brick, but we want something unusual, and a gabion wall is an original, reliable and easy to make.

 

 

So, proceed to installation

We do not need the foundation, but we need a little more space than for a conventional fence, and we can’t do without pillars. The construction is quite heavy, so the distance between the posts is a maximum of 2.5 meters.

• So we mark up and calculate the necessary material.
• As the net was prepared, we drill holes to a depth of one third of the column, a width of 20 cm. This is the usual standard for this type of fence.
• We install the columns, check the level, and then fix with wooden spacers.
• Tamp, fill the pits with a solution and leave to harden for three days.
• After making sure that everything is frozen and the columns are held up thoroughly, we proceed to the assembly of the wire frame.
• The canvas is fastened to the posts with galvanized clamps or nuts, with each other using clamping brackets.
• We fill the space with stone - slowly and evenly, fastening it at regular intervals with special staples.

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In principle, that's all. A couple of valuable tips, the ends of the cut wire, which you will fasten the grid, process with zinc paste, so that then you don’t do this, otherwise they will rust. Before laying, sort the stones in advance, so the work will go faster, lay large ones against the wall, small ones in the middle.

 

It is clear that this is only one of the options for the wall, by the way, the easiest, you can choose at your discretion, for example, one.

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By the way in such a cozy corner furniture from gabions would also look nice. Wooden details go well with stone, and making a table and a bench from gabions is not at all difficult, especially if you have mastered an entire wall that you need some kind of table. You can look at the furniture bill here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So go ahead, gabions, it’s fashionable today and there are a lot of options for using them

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