How to build a bridge through the pond

If you choose decorative bridges through a pond in stores, then they will cost you in a round sum. But this is not a reason to give up such beauty in your country or in the garden. If you wish, you can build a bridge through the pond with your own hands.

Main criteria for bridge

Sometimes it is difficult to choose the view of the bridge, which will build, relying only in the photo on the Internet, because they are all beautiful in their own way. It is already necessary to focus on your own skills, on how the bridge will fit into the overall design, and, of course, to the budget. But in any case, there are certain criteria to match the constructed design:

1. Reliability and durability - these two qualities are important to every dacket, because it is known that the durable thing will serve longer. So that the garden bridge does not deteriorate ahead of time, it is necessary to process it with special means to protect against external pests.
2. Safety - if a person goes through the stream on the bridge, then he must be completely sure that nothing happens to him. In addition, the design should be so strong and reliable that it will be able to withstand several people at the same time.
3. Decorativeness - In most cases, bridges in the garden are installed to make the landscape even more winning. Do not doubt that it is impossible to make a beautiful bridge with your own hands, the main thing is to correctly pick up the form, combination and material.

Shape of the bridge

It would seem that such a simple design as a bridge cannot have many forms. But it is not. Bridges through the pond are the most diverse:

• Direct is the easiest form of construction. Typically, the material for them is a tree, stone or concrete. If necessary, then the railing is installed on such a bridge.

• Growing or arched - these bridges are very popular. An ideal design is considered bridges with a 2-meter width and a 20-degree bending.

• Step - this bridge consists of two stairs, in the middle of which the playground. It is necessary to provide in such structures on the steps a small slope so that rainwater does not accumulate, but stocked. In size, they must not break the rule of the middle step.

• Step by step - such bridges are built if the pond is small. To build them, just put large stones with a small distance from each other, to conveniently walk. Instead of stones, you can use the plates.

• Suspended - so that such a design is safe, you need to make a reliable foundation and take strong cables.

• Zigzag - these bridges are not only beautiful and unusual, but also in the opinion of the inhabitants of the country of the rising sun, protect against evil spirits that can only move on direct lines.

Material for bridge

• Wooden bridges - are the most popular both in sales and for those who try to build this design with their own hands. Probably, all this is from the fact that the tree is a malleable, affordable and it is used in construction in the plots, so almost any product from it harmoniously fits into the garden design. In the construction of a wooden bridge - choose a good material. And adhere to the recommendations for construction, then a small design can be built and literally per day.

• Metal bridges - all the bridge make it completely myself will not succeed, because some details are created on machines. This concerns the base of the bridge. All other work can be performed independently. In terms of design, such a bridge will look advantaged if adding railing and lights to it.

• Bridges forged - this product is collected from the already finished parts, and then experts do not advise it to do this. Because if you decide to spend on an expensive forging, then let the masters and make work from beginning to end. At the expense of how the forging will fit into the garden design, it is not even necessary to worry, it is considered a classic and looks wonderful together with other elements, such as pergolas, shops and forged gazebos.

• Bridges combined - such garden bridges are called structures that collected the best elements from wrought bridges and from wood. Usually the railing and the base of the bridge are made of forged metal, but the flooring is already wooden. Sometimes an exhaled board with engraving and drawings are used on it.

Garden bridge do it yourself

Below are three ways to make a bridge, they are pretty simple, and anyone who once held joinery tools can be performed.

Straight bridge

The bridge over the pond will turn out about 2.5 meters. To build it, you need to perform such work:

1. Before making a bridge, you need to build reference sites from two banks of the pond. To do this, it is necessary to put a rubbent or broken brick on the soil, and well tumped.
2. Top on the crushed stone put the bars, the length of which is 100 cm, and the section 150x150 mm and a pair of thick logs with the same dimensions. Before you put, they need to either squeeze, or apply an antiseptic on them.
3. Top bars to cover the rubberoid.
4. To secure the bridge at the location of the location, you need to drive metal pipes on the sides of the supports or corners.
5. Between the two supports put two bars, connect them with the supports of the bridge with nails. The size of the span bars should be 1x1 m.
6. For the flooring, you need to take 1x0.4 m boards and put them next to each other, making the lumen of a few millimeters so that rainwater flows into it and there was a small ventilation for wood. Watch the edges of the boards to come out 10 cm further supporting bars on both sides. Next, connect the boards and bars nails.
7. Now the turn came to equip on the bridge of the railing. To do this, you need a bolt on the outside of the bar to put supports. They will continue the handrails on them. For this type of bridge, it is enough to make 3 racks. At an altitude of 70 cm, it is necessary to secure the handrails using self-samples or nails.

Gorbatoy Wooden Bridge

The "humpback" of the bridge is the main thing - it is to make Kosur. For its manufacture, you need to take wide boards, the length of which is 2.5 m, and then execute such work:

1. Find at the board center and outline it with a pencil, this place will be the top of the Kouryer. Next, you need to note from both sides from the edge of 40 cm and connect these points with the center.
2. Now you need to find the middle between the center point and extreme, outlaw pencil. And third points need to be outlined by recovering from the center of the bar of 5 cm on each side. And from these points, also retreat down vertically by 2 cm, and all points to connect the curve.
3. With the help of an electric batch, cut the bar on the outlined lines. The curved part put on top of the circumcised.
4. Four bolts need to connect two parts of the bar. In the same way to make the second Kosor. Now you can collect all the bridge.
5. Make the reference sites from the crushed stone. Connect two Kouryra at the bottom of metal rods with thread. The length of these rods coincides with the width of the bridge. Kosomers need to be combined and drilled through, retreating 5 cm from the edge at the bottom and 10 cm on the side.
6. Connect two rowers to metal rods. You can replace the bars with wooden bars that connect the cosomes with fastening corners and self-drawing.
7. For flooring, you need to take 1x0.4 m boards and put them next to each other, leaving small gaps.
8. Install racks for railings and railing, handle the tree by antiseptic, open lacquer or paint.

Eco-bridge

If your garden serves as an island of wildlife with meadow disintegration, with small swamp ponds, it will be very organic to look at the bridge, which was carried out carelessly, as if Mother Nature itself folded the logs in such a straightforward way. So, for the manufacture of such a transition bridge over the pond you will need:

1. Make a foundation from Crusp and top on it to lay a couple of thick logs, they will serve as a base.
2. On top of these logs, put two more logs, but already thinner and combine them with nails.
3. Flooring the bridge will be made from the jerdoms from birch. There is a small trick if you are in the center put extensive stiffs, and then they will gradually decrease to the edges, then it will seem visually that it is a "humpback" bridge.
4. For the railings, too, you need to take uneven thin logs.

When work on the construction of the bridge over the pond will be completed, you can proceed to decorating it. Some bridges, such as Eco, do not require any decoration, they themselves are a strong element of the garden. But forged bridges can be added to the posts with lanterns, they will look very winning in the evenings, when the light in the water surface of the pond will be reflected in the semitime.

Wooden bridges are wonderful together with flowers in pots or wild fusing plants. The land around the bridge also costs to reflect, you can pour sand or pebbles. And near the pond put shops made in a single style with a bridge. As a result, you will have a wonderful place of rest, which will be doubly pleased, because you made it with your own hands.