Construction of a gazebo with your own hands

Any landlord will want to have on the plot not only a house or a sauna, but an arbor - a place in the open air where you can get together with friends over a cup of tea or retire in a romantic atmosphere with your soul mate. The arbor at the dacha is not just an ornament of the landscape, but it also creates cosiness and comfort during your holiday, especially when you make a stove for a gazebo by yourself.

Necessary tool

Now the Internet is full of offers for the manufacture of any gazebo for any purse. But to build a gazebo by yourself, to invest in it a part of yourself - is not this happiness for the real master? Moreover, the independent process of building a gazebo is not something titanically complex. For the construction of a minimum of power tools, which any man has.

So, from the power tool we need:

• Jigsaw, which is convenient to cut a tree and make cut-outs;
• Planer for planing and leveling surfaces;
• Drill for drilling the guide holes;
• Screwdriver for working with a large number of screws and screws.

Construction planning

Let's figure out what is the standard arbor? Usually it is an open or closed room of small size made of wood, with a roof and equipped with handrails. The construction of permanent pavilions( for summer and winter use) requires the creation of a foundation. If the gazebo is to be used in winter, it is better to insulate it. In this case, the arbor will be a miniature house. If you plan to use the summerhouse only in the summer, then it's worth paying attention to easy collapsible options, the basis of which is the steel frame. This arbor requires only a flat surface, it does not need a foundation. At the planning stage it is necessary to decide what type of pavilion you want to build - separate or attached to the house. Also determine the desired form of construction. It can be any: rectangular, round, pentagonal or irregular shape. It depends only on your wishes and imagination.

The location of the gazebo on the site also matters. Will the gazebo be attached to the house or will it be an independent building? If it is an independent building, then it is better to allocate a corner of the site or a small place in the center, then you can use it as a central component of landscape design. It should be borne in mind that according to the rules of fire safety, the distance between the house and a stand-alone gazebo should not be less than 5 meters.

The second version of the arbor - attached. Such arbours have a common wall with the house, and sometimes the entrance to the arbor is done directly from the house. This allows you to ignore the factor of bad weather, which can be useful in the spring or autumn.

Begin to build

The first stage of building a stationary gazebo should be laying the foundation. For such light buildings, you can use a simple pile foundation. For its installation, it is necessary to clean the site of the future construction from the ground, mark the contour of the future gazebo and mark in the places where the piles will be driven. Nobody requires you to drive into the ground 2-meter telegraph poles. Enough half-meter stone, brick or wooden posts. The only requirement is the perfectly flat vertical position of the columns. After the columns have taken their place, it is necessary to cover them with waterproofing. A large piece of roofing felt is ideal for this. When the foundation is finished, the foundation of the building can be laid on the waterproofing. For this purpose, a wooden beam is ideally suited, which must be laid on the pillars of the foundation. On the perimeter of the base, we establish poles, on which the roof will then rest. At the ends of the pillars and on the base of the roof, small cutouts must be made so that the roof block will fit into its place without problems.

The first stage of the construction of a stationary gazebo should be laying the foundation. For such light buildings, you can use a simple pile foundation. For its installation, it is necessary to clean the site of the future construction from the ground, mark the contour of the future gazebo and mark in the places where the piles will be driven. Nobody requires you to drive into the ground 2-meter telegraph poles. Enough half-meter stone, brick or wooden posts. The only requirement is the perfectly flat vertical position of the columns. After the columns have taken their place, it is necessary to cover them with waterproofing. A large piece of roofing felt is ideal for this. When the foundation is finished, the foundation of the building can be laid on the waterproofing. For this purpose, a wooden beam is ideally suited, which must be laid on the pillars of the foundation. On the perimeter of the base, we establish poles, on which the roof will then rest. At the ends of the pillars and on the base of the roof, small cutouts must be made so that the roof block will fit into its place without problems.

For the roof, you need to make a bunch of timber, similar to a star or letter X( depends on the number of posts and the shape of the arbor).On the basis of this ligament we make a foundation for the roof. After this, the finished element can be fixed on poles above the base of the arbor. The roofing is made of a sheet of chipboard, on top of which is fastened a flexible tile or steel corrugated sheet. At the very end of the cover, you need to make a small cornice of a steel strip or drain chute to protect the wooden roof elements from rain. On the inside, the roof surface is finished with a lining. The floor and walls are often made of the same material as the frame, in our case this is the cant. The constructive solution for the walls remains at the owner's discretion. This can be solid, closed railing or beautiful trellised inserts.

Variants with grids are popular for gardens where there are weaving plants: grapes, hops and the like. The arbor covered with such plants looks organic in any project.

Inside the gazebo can be equipped according to your needs. There can be fixed benches, a table. Often you can see the options for arbours with a barbecue barbecue installed inside the grill.

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Gazebo with own hands