The man has learned to protect his home for a long time - first the fences were built in order to protect themselves from hostile neighbors, well, in the modern world the fence is more a means of achieving comfort and creating one's own world. You can separate yourself from others around by different materials - some people erect tall forged hedges, others are limited to a small wooden palisade. Well, in this article, together with the site "House of Dreams" we will learn how to build massive brick fences, which, with the right approach to construction, are a significant obstacle to the perpetrators and, at the same time, a good decoration of the local territory.
Brick fences photo
Which bricks to choose for the fence
Modern enterprises produce a rich assortment of all kinds of bricks - from the conveyors of brick factories not only the usual red and white bricks come off us. Along with them, a large number of so-called decorative bricks are produced, whose design characteristics are much higher. So which brick is better for the fence?
Of course, not red rubble bricks, designed for rough masonry of piers and empty space spacing between decorative finishing material. For the laying of fences, at least, a brick is needed for the face masonry - at least ordinary white, which is called silicate.
Ideally, if you want to get a beautiful, and most importantly, a strong hedge, you need to use decorative bricks for the fence. Facing brick for the fence allows you to build not only a monofilament fence, but also by combining bricks of different colors and even shapes to build a kind of work of art that will attract the glances of people passing by.
Fences from facing bricks photo
A red brick for a fence is considered a kind of classic of the genre. Looks like these fences perfectly and perfectly fit for any landscape design. But the most attractive option is the combination, when the decorative brick for the fence is used in conjunction with some other material. Excellent looking fences made of brick and forging elements, also looks good brick, combined with profiled sheets - in general, there are many options for imagination and you can use almost any material. The main thing is that it fits harmoniously into the structure of the fence and looks good against the background of the surrounding landscape.
Another version of the fence is its imitation of brickwork. With this task, modern concrete fences with an appropriate pattern are easy to handle.
Concrete fence imitation brick
How to build a brick fence yourself
The construction of a brick fence begins with a foundation. You can not just build a massive hedge on bare ground and be sure of the durability of this building. The foundation for a brick fence is poured from concrete - its depth should not be less than half a meter, and the width should be equal to the dimensions of the columns. The height of the foundation must be made slightly above ground level. To ensure that the brick does not pull moisture from the ground and is not absorbed by salts leaving white spots, it should not touch the ground.
Very important moment of foundation construction is its reinforcement - so that the fence is long, it is necessary to lay a three-dimensional framework, twisted by a knitting wire, from the reinforcement, the diameter of which is not less than 10 mm. Only with this approach to the business can you build a solid and capital brick fence.
Having built the foundation, you can also engage in building a fence, but first you need to correctly calculate the required amount of material. Calculating the brick for the fence - the occupation is quite simple. Knowing the dimensions of one brick, you first need to calculate how many will go to one column and one span, then multiply by the number of these spans and get the finished result. Typically, the number of spans and the distance between the posts is determined based on the total length of the fence being erected - on average, it is approximately 2 m. Spans of longer length, laid out in polkirpicha, are not very reliable and quickly destroyed.
Now, having acquired the necessary amount of bricks, sand and cement( with the latter will have to be determined by experience), you can start directly building a brick fence.
To begin with it is necessary to perform waterproofing - with the help of an ordinary roofing material it is necessary to separate the foundation from the brickwork. The reliability of the fence from this will not suffer, but it will not drag the moisture from the ground through the concrete. The ruberoid simply fits on top of the foundation, and the excess, so as not to spoil the appearance of the fence, is subsequently cut with a sharp knife.
Now it comes to the brickwork - in almost all cases the brickwork of the brick fence begins with the posts. They are laid down in the thickness of one brick, that is, on the foundation of the foundation lies a pair of bricks between which the same distance is maintained. The next two bricks are stacked in the diametrically opposite direction - just so, stacking each row of bricks in the other direction, provides stiffness of the column.
White brick fence with own hands photo
It is very important to consider the smoothness of the stitches when laying a brick - for an eye, as it was done before, high quality masonry is not achieved. A beautiful brick fence is achieved by using a template in the form of a round rod with a diameter of 8-10 mm. It fits on the previous row of bricks exactly at the very edge of the masonry. All other space is mortgaged. When the upper row is laid and slightly stiffens, the rod can be pulled out gently. Using this template allows you to kill two birds with one stone - with its help, both the smoothness of the seam and the evenness of filling it with a solution are achieved simultaneously. In addition, they do not have to clean the seams and smear the brick.
In the process of erecting columns it is necessary to take care of them with a bunch with a thin brick span - to provide such a connection and to make separate parts of the fence an integral part will help the reinforcement. A pair of small pieces of reinforcement is laid every three to four rows exactly in the place where the posts are connected to the brick span of the fence.
Photo of brick fences
Asking how to build a brick fence by one's own hands, one must also understand the harmful effects of water penetrating the holes of bricks - freezing, the water expands and, thereby, destroys the brick, as a consequence, and the entire fence as a whole. From this natural phenomenon must necessarily insure - it is for this reason, most of the brick fences in its upper part is covered with metal tints. In principle, if the appearance of metal tints you do not cause admiration, they can be replaced with a thin layer of high-quality cement waterproofing - it is applied like a putty with two thin layers in different directions.
That's how the fences are made of bricks. The principle of their erection is the same for all variants of the fence - even the combined hedges are arranged in the same type. The difference is only in the height of a brick span, which, as a rule, does not reach half a meter - all the rest of the space is laid by another type of material.
Author of the article Vladimir Belov
