Perhaps, in full measure, the diversity of its capabilities, a plastic bottle as a building and finishing material can demonstrate when making a garden gazebo out of it. Arbor from plastic bottles can be ascetically modest, and can resemble a luxurious royal palace in miniature. Everything depends on the desires, fantasies and skills of the owner.
Arbor from plastic bottles
Collection of plastic containers
Yes, a plastic bottle is a junk, free material. But in order to collect the number of bottles necessary for a more or less large-scale project, you need to spend a lot of time. In addition, there is a question of storage of stocks. The plastic is light, it does not beat, but takes up a lot of space. As a rule, experienced owners accumulate a stock of bottles in 400-500, they let him in the business and begin to collect the next batch. Such a number of bottles can be stored by allocating one utility room( barn, pantry) for this, without creating problems with cluttering the site. The collection of raw materials can also be optimized by negotiating with retail outlets where beverages are sold in plastic bottles in bottling or summer cafes. To save on payment for garbage disposal( as a rule, organizations pay for this depending on the amount of waste taken out), the owners of bars and cafes will happily leave these bottles to you.
Mosaic floor, openwork curtains
Of plastic bottles can not perform the entire gazebo, and use them as a finishing material for some of its parts. For example, from multicolored plugs you can lay a mosaic floor. The easiest option that even a child can cope with is pressing the lids into the wet sand. On the perimeter of the future gazebo, it is necessary to well compact the earth, establish the formwork, pour in a layer of sand, moisten it and tightly press in there multi-colored corks. True, such a floor will not be very durable. A more thorough option is the laying of plugs on cement or cement glue. You can use a mixture of cement with a tile adhesive.
The floor can be made from plugs
From the bottoms of plastic bottles you can make interesting openwork curtains that will make your summer house original. First, in the frying pan, clean sand is blasted and the edges of the cut up bottoms are lightly melted, pressing them for a second to hot sand. This is done in order to eliminate the burrs that could have formed when cutting the bottom. Then, in two or more places( depending on what curtain you plan to collect), holes are made along the edges of the bottoms and the bottoms are threaded onto the wire. It turns out an openwork curtain, which can be made solid( perimeter arbor) or collect from separate long strips( close the entrance to the arbor).
From the bottoms of bottles you can make interesting curtains
Of course, both the mosaic floor and openwork curtains can be used in pavilions completely built of plastic bottles.
Arbor of bottles: simple algorithm
Although the gazebo made of plastic bottles at first glance seems to be a very unpretentious object, it's better to begin not immediately with the construction, but with the drawing. This way you can calculate how many bottles you need, think about what color and size they should be, how they will be located, exactly how you will use the bottles as an ornament of the gazebo.
After determining the place where the gazebo will stand and carefully calculating everything according to the drawing, first carefully level the area, and then install the wooden frame. Choosing the beams for the frame, pay attention to their width: it should match the thickness of the plastic bottles that you will use. Wooden bars should be dug vertically along the perimeter of the future gazebo, and then fasten them with cross bars - usually tie them down and up, but you can make an additional bunch, at a level about a meter from the floor.
The gazebo walls can be assembled from bottles simply strung on a wire. The wire is attached to the upper and lower beams of the frame. In order to give the bottles an aesthetic appearance, they can be painted( it is recommended to paint the bottles inside, pour a little paint in them and turn them over until the paint covers the entire inner surface).But the transparent walls look no less original.
Arbor from bottles sample
Another option - to collect from plastic bottles peculiar "logs" of the required length. To do this, the bottles are cut off bottoms, unscrew the lids, and then put the bottles on each other until you get a column of necessary height. For additional strength, you can use glue or squeeze bottles with scotch tape, but, as a rule, this is not required. The first bottle, which is worn by the rest and which will be located below, is recommended to fill with sand, the rest should not be filled. From the finished "logs" collect the walls of the arbor, placing them on the lower frame of the frame vertically and tied together with wire.
Interesting arbor from bottles
The roof of the arbor must be made inclined to avoid stagnation of water. Rafters should preferably be made of a wooden beam, similar to the one from which the frame of the gazebo is built. Obreschetka is made of thin strips. Roofing material is the same plastic bottle. But work on it will have a little more than the one that goes to the construction of the walls.
The plastic bottle must first remove the bottom and narrow neck, then cut it along. The result is a rectangle. This rectangle, heated in hot water, needs to be put under the press so that it straightens. Rectified rectangles with a stapler( furniture) are combined into one continuous sheet. This will be the roofing material for the gazebo. It is fixed to a wooden base with nails.
In addition, you will be interested in reading about the polycarbonate gazebo with your own hands, as well as a stove for a gazebo with your own hands.
