We make a garden bench with your own hands: instructions without complex drawings

We tell about the variants of the designs of the benches and give step-by-step plans, how to build a conventional wooden model with a back and suspended swing-bench.

Make a bench with your own hand from the tree is easy. The material serve ordinary bars and boards, polished and lacquered. The base is often made from a metal profile. Watching wrought iron supports well. They can give any shape according to the sketch. It is subject to objects that can withstand human weight - old furniture, car tires, logs and processed stumps. Only one rule is valid - the country's furniture must be comfortable and functional.

We make a garden bench just without special skills

Design options

Prefabricated elements

Manufacture of a wooden bench

• Material and tools
• Step-by-step instruction

Installation swing on suspension

Design options

Street furniture for cottages can be collected by himself. For this you do not need professional tools and special skills. Before starting work, it will still be necessary to draw a diagram indicating the size of the parts. When there is visualization and specific dimensions displayed on paper, make the error more complicated.

There are only three basic technical solutions. Most ideas are only their variations.

Types of beam

• Stationary benches are portable or having a fixed foundation.
• Transformers - built-in mechanisms allow them to fold and lay them.
• Street swings - there are adults and children's models. In this case, we will talk about the suspended seats fixed on the supports and calculated on two people.

These three varieties have one shared feature. Even if the model is fully made of metal or stone, the trim makes the array - to touch it is more pleasant. Models must be comfortable and not climbing space. It is better to determine in advance where they will be. Special requirements are presented to the swings. Moving structures should be made safe. They need a great margin of safety. Supports preferably put without corners - when you hit, they will cause less harm. The chains from the chains are better wrapped with a cloth so that the links do not praise their hands.

The simplest design is a flooring installed on supports. It can be fixed on two broad logs set up vertically. Such a foot is often bought into the ground. If you fill the bottom and make it stable, you will have to look for a flat site. Even with a slight height difference, she will be fused. The base of the vertical part is two bars, nailed to the back of the logs and the horizontal boards connected. If attaching them at an angle, securing the base on the sides, it will be possible to adjust the angle. It will make a shop more comfortable.

The casing consists of one element or several. It is more convenient to mount them if both sides have a flat surface. The rounded side holds worse.

Another of the simplest technical solutions is a thick trunk of a width of about a meter with an inside the seat. To cope with the work, an ax and electric jig will be required. The disadvantage is a big mass - to move the barrel will be quite difficult.

The housing is made of lacquered bars associated with a metal rod from above, from below and in the center where the horizontal and vertical part are connected. At the junction, the vertical elements are skipped between horizontal and cross them in this position.

Stationary models are distinguished by the greatest variety. The rear side is not necessarily mounted to the base. It is often bought into the ground. It can be twisted branches, sculptures, bizarre installations. Prepare visualization in this case is not easy. It is better to act as impromptu. The drawing of the bench with this approach will not need.

Requirements for prefabricated elements and their attachments

Planning to collect a garden bench with your own hands according to the drawings or a scheme drawn by hand, you need to decide what it will be done. The base is a frame from a bar or a metal profile.

Wooden details

So that the street furniture served for a long time, you must first pay attention to the state of its prefabricated elements. It is better not to use old ridiculous boards and bars with holes remaining from nails. On the surface there should be no traces of mold and damaged areas.

The durability of the shop depends on the wood breed. Oak will serve much longer than pine or birch.

Billets may differ in quality. For example, the lining according to GOST is divided into four classes. The evaluation criterion is the homogeneity and strength of the structure, as well as decorative qualities.

New products before use must be processed. Start better with their drying. Even an impeccable array contains an excess moisture. It is removed to protect the tree from temperature and humidity deformations. With wetting and drying, the fibers change their shape. In addition, frozen water expands and destroys them from the inside. Dry spells spend outdoors either indoors. Do not include the radiator at full capacity - otherwise the moisture will be removed unevenly, which will lead to irreversible deformations. Products are placed by stacks, making a layer between each tier for normal air circulation, and withstand within a few days.

Before you make a bench with a back, the workpiece must be protected from the exposure to the external environment. The dried material is impregnated with antiseptics. There are ready solutions that do not need to be dissociated independently. They are not toxic and do not cause corrosion of metal fasteners when contacting an array. Sodium fluoride solution, oil antiseptics are used. Technical oils have high performance, but when evaporated, they allocate substances harmful to health. After the impregnation, the surface is closed with a polyethylene film so that the mixture is completely penetrated into the structure, and then dried.

For legs and supports in contact with Earth, special tools are used, for example, Neomid 430 ECO. They are distinguished by increased resistance and are not washed out in a wet environment. Racks after such treatment can be boiled into the ground without fear of their condition.

After drying, the antiseptics parts are covered with varnish. As a primer apply Olif. For this, semi-natural compositions are well suited. Improved properties have modified olifes with additives. They improve the adhesion with finishing coating and create a solid base for applying it. The coating dries during the day, after which you can start painting and varnishing.

Use better oil and polyurethane compositions. Polyurethane is distinguished by increased resistance to external influences. They are well protected from moisture and scratches, do not darken over time. The tool is applied in two stages with a brush or spray gun. The first layer is dried and grind in shallow sandpaper, then stacked the second.

When creating a wooden bench with a backrest with their own hands, unusual materials are often used: logs, stumps, thick branches and even interior items. So that they will be served as long as possible, they need to be treated, like simple billets.

Fasteners serve nails and selflessness. Nails hold in the array worse. They have to constantly pour them. To connect heavy parts, they are put on the anchors. All metal fasteners must have a galvanized, otherwise the traces of corrosion will be noticeable in the first year.

Professional carpenters are pulled out the details, creating the grooves and protrusions on their sides, which coincide in size. For reliable fixation, joiner glue use. Traditional methods are equally reliable, but there are other options. An unusual way is the use of rope. Over time, it is stretched. Nodes and winding will have to update frequently.

Metal elements

They serve to create a carrier frame, covered with boards or bars. Use steel and aluminum profile. It can be a regular corner or a tubular profile with a round or rectangular cross section. The smaller the sharp corners, the better.

Metal is more durable and durable than most wood breeds. Its carrying ability determines the thickness and alloy.

The disadvantage is low resistance to corrosion. Primers and oil coatings protect only for several years. High durability have products with galvanized or copped surface. Conduct such processing only in the workshop.

Write iron is the highest resistance. Its advantage is also in the possibility of making legs and sidewalls in their own photo and sketches.

For connection, welding or screws are used. The first method allows you to create smooth and reliable joints. The second is suitable if the rental of the welding machine is not possible. Its disadvantage is that sticking screws and nuts look unattractive. They are easy to hook and hurt.

How to build a bench with an array back

Consider the manufacture of a more traditional portable design on four legs. Its dimensions: height - 1.2 m, width - 1.55 m. Horizontal height - 40 cm.

What will take for work

• Boards with a thickness of 3-5 cm and a width of 15 cm for racks and seats.
• Billets with a cross section of 3x5 or 5x5 - we will make ribbies.
• Self-tapping screws and screwdriver.
• Drill and tree drill.
• Hacksaw.
• Plane.
• Emery paper either Bulgarian with grinding circle.
• A hammer.
• Passatia.
• Pencil, ruler and roulette.

Step-by-step manual instructions

Let's start with the blanks. The seat consists of three, and the back of two boards with a length of 1.5 m. We will also need legs - two to 40 and 120 cm. Short placed in front. To give a tilt, the upper part of the rear support dory at a low angle, fixing them in the vice. It will be necessary to put a rag, otherwise the vice will leave noticeable traces.

Floors forming the sidewalls, on top and bottom connect bars. They perform the functions of rigidity. Bottom elements will be placed at a distance of 10 cm from the ground. To the top lay the trim. Top of the sidewall we scrape the back, in the center - the seat. On the lower bars, we have an additional rigidity edge.

The closer the pairs of the legs are, the more less stable. The width of the lower part of the structure will be 1.3 m, the depth is 0.55 m. The depth of the seat is 0.45 m, the overhang on each side is 10 cm. Upper board will be reappeated by 3 cm above the base, leaving a small gap from the bottom.

For screws, you will need to drill holes in advance. Marking will be more accurate if you make prefabricated items to the installation site.

How to make a comfortable bench with a back on the suspension

The simplest solution is to wear two columns with a thickness of 10-20 cm in the ground, connecting them with a reliable jumper. At a distance of 2 m, you need to install the same pair. The top on the jumper is stacked by the beam on which the suspension with the seat is attached. The height of the supports is 2 m. The width of one pair is 0.5-1 m. They are plugged on 1 m.

The swings are in constant movement, so it is necessary to mount the details on thick long screws. Nails quickly surprise.

Portable swings are better to cook from the steel pipe profile. Wooden designs with frequent movement lose strength.

Metal sidewalls are made in the form of a pointed triangle set by a short facet to the ground. All corners of the sidewall are connected by jumpers. There should be no insulated legs. Suspension serves chains or ropes, fixed with the help of carbines from above and below.

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