Crushed stone fence
Want to buy a fence? Do you dream of decorating the landscape of your house or cottage? Are your priorities soundproofing, strong and durable construction? Ideally, you want to arrange garden structures, fence and seating area in the same style? Then a successful option will be a fence of stone, flower beds, benches, fireplace and other gabions. With their help, a reliable structure is built, which pleases the eye with its aesthetic appearance. What is this design? This is a stone fence, or as it is called - a gabion fence. A huge bonus is that you can do without additional costs during installation work and equip a gabion fence with your own hands. But the question remains: how to install gabions?
Installation of a fence from this material is fast and easy even for those who are engaged in installation extremely seldom or have no experience in this business at all. Therefore, a qualified team West Grid, which has installed tens of hundreds of fences, shares information about the details of all stages of construction.
Step-by-step instructions will help in the implementation of the idea. To begin with, you need to compare the prices on the market of mesh and fence manufacturers, choose the best one where the price meets your expectations, determine the height, length, width and buy gabions. The filling is so diverse that it is not limited to imagination. Have you already submitted a picture of your design? If not, look for options for filling structures in the old proven way - by entering gabions in the search engine fence photo. Carefully study the catalogs with photos, because there is a wide range of options: from improvised means to different consumer budgets, from hay and firewood to granite and marble. Once the design is complete, you can begin installation.
Gabion fence with your own hands
How to install a gabion fence? Experienced specialists of the West Grid have drawn up a step-by-step installation plan. Get acquainted with the main stages of installation of a fence from gabion designs:
1. Site preparation.
To properly install the fence you need to clean the area. The ground should be smooth, free of vegetation and stones that may interfere with installation.
2. Preparation of the ditch.
After preparing the site, a pit is dug, the width of the gabion, up to 40 cm deep. The depth depends on the height of the fence: the higher the fence, the deeper the ditch is needed. Then you need to concrete the soil to ground level. If the fence is high - support columns are also used for stability.
3. Installation of gabion structures.
Installation takes place without filler. Each fraction of the grid is fastened with a galvanized spiral to increase the stability of the structure.
4. Fixation.
Alignment of a design needs to be made by means of a building level. On perimeter box designs are placed and cores from galvanized metal are mounted.
5. Filling gabions.
The material can be varied: stones in nets, broken bricks, gravel, glass, bottles, hay, all kinds of vegetation, firewood, flowers, anything your imagination desires.
6. Mounting the top grid
After filling the structure, we proceed to the final stage - the installation of the cover. After aligning on all sides, you need to tie the top grid with a spiral. The design is ready to decorate the landscape.
Accordingly, you can handle the installation of gabion fences both with your own hands and with the help of professionals. You can buy a turnkey fence from the producer the Grid West. Ask for help - a good contribution to safety and a guarantee of long-term operation within the period specified in the technical documentation for the product.
