Fence for a summer residence: we build inexpensively

The suburban area is property, its own land. On a standard six acres, you can realize the dreams of a small country estate. Naturally, like any property, you want to fence off the summer cottage from the outside world, making it a cozy and very personal corner. Often, country houses are seasonal housing, so it is not advisable to build capital fences around them. And the question of the cost of this type of work for the owners is also not in last place. So what to make an inexpensive fence for giving? And can a cheap fence be beautiful and reliable?

What should we build a fence

What affects the cost of a fence? First of all, the size of the fence. Low fences will be noticeably cheaper than high ones, and transparent fences will be solid.

Structures fixed to concreted or dug-in supports will also be more profitable than fences erected on a strip foundation.

The next economic parameter will be the source material for the work. What does the public sector offer today?

Tree

Wooden fences are always aesthetic, stylish and give the suburban area a cozy look. From this material, you can make a lot of varieties of fences.

1. Fence. Inexpensive, but allowing you to experiment with shapes and design, the material. It is not problematic for him to change the width of the step of setting elements or to make the top edge curly.
   

   wooden fences will give the summer cottage a cozy look

2. Ranch. A similar type of fence is erected from unedged boards or beams. These structural components are fixed to the supports in a horizontal projection. The width of the step can also be determined by the owner's taste.
   

   ranch - open fence to delimit space

3. Wattle. The main element of this, perhaps the cheapest wooden fence, are beautifully intertwined rods. The hedge turns out to be quite rustic and looks just great, but the design has one drawback. It is difficult to reproduce for people who do not have skills in weaving. The strength of the fence leaves much to be desired, but the decorative effect is on top! Such fences are not subject to painting. If desired, they can be varnished.
   

   wicker fence will be an excellent option for cottages in a rustic style

4. Latticed fences. They are collected not only from slats. Unhewn poles look very good in the composition, which, by the way, will significantly reduce the cost of it.
   

   lattice fences do not create a feeling of isolation and perfectly let in sunlight

5. Palisade. This is another original use of wood and it is much easier to build it than the same wattle fence. Polished, with turned tops, logs go to work. It is desirable that they be of the same section. The original Slavic fence will become a landmark in the area.

Metal

What can be most often seen as country fences?

1. Chain link. It is offered with galvanized or polymer coating. Attach the mesh in different ways. Someone prefers to put it on a metal frame, but it seems to someone more reliable to weld it into separate sections, on the frame of which pipes or corners are collected. The cheapest way is to stretch the mesh on dug-in poles. The mesh fence is quite high. It cannot be crossed. At the same time, it does not form shading areas on fertile soil, which allows you to freely use structures of this type on the boundary.
   

   fencing of the suburban area with chain-link mesh

2. Corrugated mesh. It is stronger than a chain-link, as it is made of seven-millimeter bent wire, and at a better price. However, the decorative effect of the fence will be much to be desired.
3. Welded mesh. The fence made of it is practical, looks good and is easy to use. This is the most expensive of the materials presented, but still, compared to capital fences, it is noticeably more profitable.

Decking

Don't know what to use to build a deaf country fence? Take a look at the corrugated section. Today there you can find good deals at a bargain price. There are 2 types for you:

1. Wall. The wave height on it is up to 20 mm. In addition to fencing the territory, corrugated board of this class can also be used for sheathing a house or buildings for household purposes.
2. Roofing. The wave height of this species reaches 44 mm. This is a versatile material, suitable for fencing areas, and for the arrangement of the roof.

If we conduct a comparative analysis of the cost of the presented consumables, it becomes clear that the grids will be the most profitable in terms of savings.

PVC

In the life of the countries of the post-Soviet space, PVC fences began to enter not so long ago, but they are steadily gaining popularity. These fences have many advantages:

1. They are durable.
2. Are issued in different flowers.
3. Offered in different textures.
4. Not afraid of ultraviolet.
5. Frost-resistant.
6. Moisture resistant.

Mounting structures is a pleasure. The only problem is that stores are not always ready to meet customer demand, so order products in advance.

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What to make an inexpensive fence for giving? Unconventional Solutions

If you want the surrounding fence to cost practically nothing, but at the same time be original and make your house recognizable - look at the materials at hand. Many of them have long been classified as garbage, but there was not enough time to take it out. And wonderful! So, what do we have lying around in the bins?

Plastic bottles

These products have long ceased to be intended exclusively for industrial purposes. Craftsmen miraculously adapted them to many other things. They are used to make elements of landscape decors, furniture, swim rings, so why not try plastic containers as structural fence elements? Let's weigh the pros. Fences made of such material will attract unusual beauty. There is no need to even argue with this. Most likely, in the village there is nothing like it. It’s not even worth mentioning cheapness and availability, since getting enough bottles will not be a problem. Neighbors will gladly drop you the plastic ballast that clutters up the sheds.

A fence of this type can be considered eternal. If it is not deliberately destroyed, nature, with all its cataclysms, will not be able to destroy it. Bottle plastic does not react to sunlight and tolerates frost well.It will not cost you anything to drive a fence of such a height out of the bottles that it becomes a worthy barrier to uninvited visitors.

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Options for protective structures made of plastic bottles

Already today, there are many ways to build bottle fences, and our craftsmen come up with new interpretations of them.

decorative border

Plastic bottles have found themselves in visual zoning. This fence is notable for its small height and is made by simply digging bottles into the ground. It imitates a border rather than a full-fledged fence, however, its main function is decor and such a height of the structure is quite enough. To achieve the maximum decorative effect, the bottles can be filled not with sand, but with colored pebbles or colored broken glass.

On the wire

Do not know what to make an inexpensive fence for the front garden near the cottage? Use the bottles typed like beads on a wire. This is a wonderful way to adjust the height of the fence. You can enclose the front garden with a low, waist-high fence, and drive it around the site in full human growth. The combination will be perceived great, especially if you play on the shades of the bottles. So that the structural elements do not bunch up and spoil the appearance of the entire fence, after putting the next copy of the bottle on the wire, tie it in a knot.

plastic sheet

A method rarely used because it is labor intensive. The canvas is removed from the cut bottle. In fact, this is its middle part. The connection of the pieces into a single whole is carried out with a stapler. The finished sections are attached to the supports like a chain-link mesh. From such canvases, you can also make a cozy gazebo, then on the territory of the site you will get a whole architectural and plastic ensemble.

Protective rack

The construction of such a fence begins with the installation of support columns around the perimeter of the fenced area. Rails will be attached to these supports in the future. This will need to be done in such a way that their arrangement resembles rack shelves. The surfaces of the improvised rack are thickly smeared with glue and bottles filled with sand are placed on them. Instead of glue, you can use screws and fasten the structural elements from the side of the bottom and cover. The fence is not very strong, but as a purely symbolic fence, it fully justifies itself.

Glass containers

Not only plastic bottles, but also their glass counterparts can be attached to the fence building business. The technology of laying glass containers will be somewhat different from those described above. In order for the building elements to hold firmly, you will need to use a cement mortar to fix them. The first row of bottles is laid out with the bottoms outward, and the second - with the bottoms inward. Technique of laying in a checkerboard pattern. Bottles of each subsequent row should lie in the recesses formed during the formation of the first layer. You can show your imagination and lay out the bottles with a pattern, inscription, ornament. To do this, you will need to have a supply of colored glass containers. Glass bottles can also be strung on wire. To do this, a hole is made in their bottoms with a diamond drill. We will get a fence of a picket sample, only with glass pickets.

Lids

“For a fence of small height, 17-18 thousand elements will be required”

What else can you make an inexpensive fence for giving? For example, from caps from the notorious plastic bottles. However, tin lids can also be assembled into small sections. Did you think that it was impossible to surprise you anymore? Well, practice proves otherwise.

The fence made of covers looks very elegant, unusual, catchy and simply attracts attention. Doing such a miracle around the entire perimeter can be expensive in terms of collecting source material. On average, a fence of small height will require 17-18 thousand elements! The figure is impressive, but if you use the idea as decorative inserts in fences of a different type or design a gate or gate in this way, then the effect will be no less strong, especially if you try and assemble the covers in the form of at least a simple pattern.

Tires

Finding enough old tires is not difficult. Since used tires must be sent for special processing, for which we do not have many enterprises due to toxicity and low profitability of production, products often live out their life in the territories of service stations. There they can be redeemed for a penny, and even arrange delivery.

You can lay out tires in the construction of the fence in different ways, but the most interesting, specifically for the summer cottage, is vertical. Tires of the first row are thoroughly dug into the ground. They will serve as the basis. The elements exposed in the next row are fastened together with screws and fixed to the lower ones.

In order for the tires to stand stably, it is necessary to shift them slightly during installation. This will allow you to clearly fall into the recesses formed by the lower row. Also, for solidity, the tires are stuffed with earth. The resulting peculiar pockets will become magnificent flowerpots for planting climbing plants, lawn grass, flowers, cereals. In addition to this wonderful way to decorate a nondescript hedge, tires can be painted, and in different colors or decorated in another acceptable way.

Plants

"If you want to create a fence from trees, use their undersized and fast-growing species"

The fence can grow on its own. A hedge has one, but a very important advantage over other types of fences - it does not require repair. Every year the trees and bushes that form it will only be stronger, taller, thicker, more magnificent. A fence blooming or simply pleasing with a riot of greenery is always aesthetic. It is better to use shrubs as component elements. They do not need to form crowns and make sure that they do not grow too tall.

To make the fence of greenery also serve as protection, take care of its width. The types of shrubs used should branch well, respond adequately to pruning, be distinguished by the density of foliage, be frost-resistant and, ideally, have thorns. Thickets of wild rose, joster, blackberry, jujube, climbing rose, sea buckthorn will become an insurmountable barrier. Lilac and Chinese cherry will perfectly dilute such a planting.

What else can you make an inexpensive green fence for giving? Unusually noble hedges are obtained from boxwood, valuable species of conifers, juniper, but it will take ten years to form them. This is due to the slow growth of such plant varieties.

If you want to create a fence from trees, use their undersized and fast-growing species. Here you will have to control the growth and development of individuals in order to have time to form their crowns into the "impassable jungle". To do this, the growth tops are taken aside and intertwined with similar processes of neighboring plants. Crowns tightly woven together can be given any shape by resorting to a topiary haircut. Good in this role willow, acacia, mulberry, willow.

Sculpture

Looking at this original fence, one gets the feeling of being in the Middle Ages. It’s hard to even think of how to call such creativity, but the fact that it is original and unhackneyed is unequivocal.You have not yet decided what to make an inexpensive fence for giving? Try to implement something similar.

The essence of the idea is to use large-sized ancient Greek amphorae for fencing a site. They will be an analogue of the supports. Branches of climbing plants will become intersupporting sections. Grapes do a good job of this.

Naturally, no one offers you to go on excavations in search of rare vessels. They can be cast from concrete. To do this with a certain skill is not difficult and on your own. If there are no such skills, a specialized workshop will help out. If you are not eager to bother with planting living plants in amphorae, you can improvise a fence of cut dry branches, having previously painted them in the colors of precious metals: gold, silver, bronze.

It is worth noting that although the fence in this interpretation will look great, the branches will not last long. They will quickly lose their decorative appeal. Perhaps it is worth combining amphoras with forging or chain-link? In terms of showiness, the fence will only benefit from this, and you will get rid of the need for its annual restoration.

Abstraction

Fences of this type are the prerogative of people with developed imagination and spatial thinking. It will not be difficult for them to assemble such a structure. There will be no need for special geometric knowledge, because balls, cubes, parallelograms, pyramids and cones will simply be bodies that will need to be harmoniously distributed in the plane of sections. It is important to provide good support for the fence. In this case, you need to use metal poles. They are dug deep into the ground. If you have never done anything like this, it is worth scrolling through the thematic material.

After the supports are dug in, they are connected into one mortgage line, which can be used as a strong wire, reinforcing bars, poles. These mortgages will become the carrier link on which the decorative elements prepared by you will be hung. You can use different-sized balls as decoration and filling. It would probably not be entirely correct to talk about the special practicality of such a structure, but from the point of view of originality, it will give odds to the mass of non-standard protective structures.

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New life for an old fence!

It happens that the fence surrounding the cottage over the years has simply lost its relevance and attractive appearance, and there is neither strength nor opportunity to change it for something more modern. The situation can be radically corrected if there is a desire to work creatively. To do this, you just have to redecorate the existing base. What to make an inexpensive fence decor for a summer residence? Everything will depend on what material was used in the construction of the fence.

Road accessories

Obsolete license plates and obsolete road signs can continue to bring practical benefits very well, once on a country fence. With their help, it will be possible to "update" the fence of any type - wooden, iron, concrete. It is only necessary to successfully arrange the elements of the skin. In the case of the restoration of a wooden and metal fence, they are planted on self-tapping screws. Dowels are required for work with concrete and masonry.

Such decor will be an incredibly practical solution if children often rest at their summer cottage. In such an unobtrusive way, you can learn letters and numbers with them, as well as the road alphabet, which in life will never be superfluous.

Bicycles

The obsolete chain-link in sections of a metal fence can be very successfully replaced with a combination of components of a bicycle structure.The brightly painted frames and skeletons of the wheels installed intermixedly will not allow strangers to enter the territory and at the same time, like the chain-link mesh, they will not form serious shading zones. A great cheap and practical solution to the issue of "resuscitation" of a worn-out fence.

In the spirit of the piano

This original idea will help out the owners of cracked fences. Try transforming the railing into an imitation piano keyboard. To make the pickets look like keys, you just need to paint them white, and then fill in the existing voids with small boards treated with black paint. Perhaps in some places you will have to “play” a little with the typesetting combination, moving the boards in different directions, but in general the result will be very impressive.

Mirrors

The plain surface of an old fence or its bare frame can be very successfully hidden behind mirrors. The new fence will merge with the surrounding space, becoming its logical continuation. At the same time, as a visual barrier, it will simply cease to exist, but as a physical one, it will remain in place, so for absent-minded guests and wild animals, such decor can cause injuries.

In the absence of solid canvases, a mirror mosaic is used. The effect will be somewhat different, but no less impressive.

Paints

Paints will help to get out of the situation and cheaply transform an old hedge. It can be camouflage graffiti or a new, more positive vision for the design of wooden fences. Today it is popular to paint pickets and log stakes like pencils. Such fences with color transitions from tone to tone look nice.

Weaving

The usual netting, gray from time to time, with which your site is surrounded, can also be successfully updated if multi-colored woolen yarn or pieces of a thin electric cable are at hand. By interlacing them in mesh cells, you can get ornaments similar to embroidery on fabric.

By fantasizing, there is a chance to create patterns, and even whole paintings in various subjects. Less creatively gifted natures are better off indulging in abstraction. Restoration work will go much faster.

Unfortunately, it will not be possible to save the situation in this way for a long time, but it is possible to postpone the global work on changing the fence for the next season.

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Conclusion

Well, now you have an idea of ​​what to make an inexpensive fence for giving? As you can see, you can get a pretty decent fence without spending fabulous sums on newfangled materials and projects! Agree, the latter, with all their splendor, are initially doomed to dull monotony, and all because they lack individuality. Against their background, your fence assembled from improvised materials will look much more interesting, and this is another confirmation that happiness is by no means in money!

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