Once the usual for every family, buildings today are the highlight of the garden. Before installing the well, consider its main purpose, place, make a sketch.
Today, a well on a site is often installed as an element of decor and does not imply the organization of a water source. However, even such a design can be very useful. For example, hide unsightly communications, hide small garden tools inside.
Types of decorative wells
Most often, construction companies offer to purchase a ready-made well. But if you make a little effort, you can create it yourself, without any extra expenses.
A well may look like a mansion with a gable roof and be without a canopy. In any case, you need to create it in the same style with your landscape:
- Country (classic wooden house with a garden). Such a plot would ideally complement the stylized teremok well with patterns
- East style. A well with a red-tiled roof is perfect here. And its corners can be lifted up.
- Modern. Here we advise you to build a well from the same materials that were used to decorate the house. So you will achieve the most successful combination with the overall landscape.
Selection of materials
The most common material is wood. Besides the fact that it does not cause difficulties during processing, it is also durable and affordable.
For the outside of the well, you can take boards or raw materials such as timber and branches. Such a well organically fits into almost any landscape.
The basis for a stone well may be a concrete ring - its inner part. Outside, you can use decorative stone or brick. So you get a building in a medieval style. If this option seems boring to you - go to the process with creativity, take bright colors.
For the roof, you can use almost any material that you consider suitable: from tile and metal, to wood and straw. The main criterion for choosing it is durability and resistance to winter frosts.
Even the most unusual things can be useful in such a thing. For example, automobile tires located on top of each other can create a well shape. Or an old wine barrel. All that is needed is to complete small parts (handle, chain, etc.) and decorate if necessary.
Of course, when decorating a well, it is worth starting from only your feelings and fantasies. For some, there will be enough wooden elements, someone will want to place ceramic figures near the well, and for someone there will not be enough color stencils.
Instruction manual
Before creating a well, we recommend sketching out a sketch of how you see the future structure. And only then to start work.
A stationary well is installed as follows:
- Racks made of timber are dug into the ground (how many of them are needed depends on the shape of the structure), previously hammered into pipe cuttings of the required diameter (a recess of about 30 cm is made in the ground). To protect the well from damage, all parts should be coated with a protective compound, and the pipes with paint.
- Liquid bitumen is poured into the prepared holes. After it has absorbed into the soil, the pits are filled with cement mortar for 50%. And only after that pipe racks are installed. They will subsequently be a support for the well. Then the holes are filled with a solution to the top. If the recesses for the pipes turned out to be too wide, then first they fill the excess space with crushed stone, and only then with a solution.
- To make sure that the pipes are level, use the level. Then leave the structure for several days so that the solution hardens. When it is frozen, insert the bars into the pipes.
- After that, the frame is lined with boards outside. They can be installed horizontally or vertically. In the first case, you will only need to fix the racks. In the second, on each side, fasten a pair of horizontal beams, and only then begin the vertical lining.
The base of the roof is constructed separately, and is later installed on a ready-made bottom. The roof can be continuous or have several openings, it can be with one or several slopes, depending on the shape that you have chosen for the well. The most technically easy to do - with two ramps. It can be very interesting to beat, for example, if the overhangs of the roof are made of different sizes. To create a triangular roof, you will need to first prepare the pediment. Then, sheathe the structure with a fitted roof covering.
The final stage is the completion of the well in terms of decor: handles, chains and buckets.
