Decorative well with your own hands from tires: features, interesting ideas and feedback

Decorative elements from used automobile tires have long been included in our everyday life. They are decorated with country plots, playgrounds, kindergartens. They are cartoon characters, flower beds, birds, animals. Let's consider one more variant of application of this throwing material - this is making a decorative well with our own hands from tires.

Site preparation

First you need to locate such an element of decor on your site. If it is a flower bed, then it can be placed on the territory of a courtyard or front garden. It is necessary to measure the diameter of the car tires used in the project, and circle a circle or dig a little this size.

Then you need to think about how the roof of the well will stay. There are three options for installing it. The first, the most difficult, is cutting the holes in each rack rail. This is long and time-consuming, but it looks impressive and will stay stronger. The second option is the side racks on the outside of the tires. And the last option is the racks that are inside the structure.

After you have chosen the way of setting up the racks for the roof of the well, you need to map out their location on the prepared plot of land. You can simply dig them to a depth of up to 50 cm, and can be concreted. To do this, the racks are not hammered, and under them wide holes are ripped out, into which the solution will subsequently be poured. So the construction will have a strong foundation and will not deform with time.

Materials for work

To make a decorative well with your own hands from tires, you need to prepare the following materials:

• Old car tires (you can 2, but better 3);
• Large stones or gravel (to strengthen the tires);
• Material for roof racks depends on the type of construction; If they are wooden, then we need bars; If the structure is welded, then the metal profile or tube;
• Roofing material can also be different: slate, metal, plastic tile, roofing material, wooden slats, OSV, etc.
• Fixing materials (screws, nails, screws, metal corners, bolts for fastening tires to each other);
• For mortar - cement, sand, water, mixing tank;
• Paint for tires and brushes;
• flower pots;
• Sharp knife.

Preparation of tires

Before the beginning of the work on making a decorative well with their own hands from the tires you need to pick up 3 pieces of identical in size and tread pattern tires. Next, you need to map out the holes for the roof racks. They must clearly coincide and be one above the other. To do this, you need a strong sharp knife, as the rubber is dense and difficult to handle. This will be the most difficult process in the whole structure.

Wooden or metal supports will hold the tires together, but it is better to fasten them together with bolts. Then the support posts are inserted, and the design is installed at a constant location in the dug holes. Supports are poured with concrete. Recall that the solution is made in the following proportions: 1 part of cement, three parts of sand, and water pour a little to get the right consistency. The solution must not be liquid or strongly solid.

Strengthening of tires

In order to have the look of a decorative well of tires, made by yourself, you need to prepare the foundation for the future flowerbed. At the bottom are large stones, you can put in the remains of construction debris. Next lay a layer of gravel, which probably could also remain from the construction work to install the foundation or garden paths. From the top, the last tire is filled with a layer of earth, into which the flowers will be planted.

If you do not have stones and gravel, you can advise on top of the second tire to fill a carved sheet of plywood or OSV, previously painted. After that, you can fill the top cover with earth or insert pots of flowers, put a bowl of ground. You choose according to your wishes and possibilities.

Roof manufacturing

The roof for the decorative well of tires is made of different materials. But before coating the roof you need to make a strong base for it. We already have two racks fixed in the ground at a right angle. Before cementing, it is possible to connect the supports from above with a bar for strength.

Next, the roof design is made for the decorative well of automobile tires. You can make a gable roof or a one-pitch roof. For a single-girder construction, a construction of two rectangular triangles, connected by two bars, is knocked down. On the hypotenuse, a sheet of SAB is nailed, onto which the roofing material is laid (slate, bitumen shingles, you can even use tires from tires).

The gable roof consists of two parts in the form of the letter A, connected together by racks or bars. After the roofing material, do not forget to close the joint from the top corner. It can be a wooden or metal corner. Stuffed and pieces of rubber.

Painting tires

If you do not want your decorative well made with your own hands made of tires, quickly peeled off and peeled off, then never use oil paint. Especially if you live in hot regions. According to numerous reviews of craftsmen, the right choice is enamel, acrylic or bituminous paint. There is also a rubber paint, which becomes flexible and can be stretched. This is very convenient, since the well will be in the open air and exposed to different temperatures.

Before you make a well of tires a decorative element of your infield, think through a pattern that will decorate the tires. It can be an imitation of bricks or birch, a monophonic pattern or decorative ornament in the ethnic ethnic style. Only after the final choice should go to the store for paint and brush.

Before the painting process, the tires should be thoroughly washed, dried and degreased with acetone. Then the background color is applied. After complete drying, proceed to applying the pattern. To do this, you need to have a thin dense brush. The paint should not be liquid, because no one needs the flow. If the pattern is complex and multicolored, then after each color you need to give the paint time to dry. In such a case, it's better to do without haste.

Decoration of a flower bed

How to make a well of tires with their own hands beautiful and decorative? It all depends on your imagination. Planting flowers is very important. Beautifully look hanging down curly flowers. You can use perennial pelargonium. It is unpretentious and grows well. Terry aster blossom very densely and for a long time, especially like the sun, so that it will be good in the open space of the cottage.

You can plant every year bright pansies or petunia, which blossom long and beautifully. In May and June, the Iberis beautifully and densely blossom, who also loves the sun. Then you can land something else. Above the decorative well, with your own hands made of the tires manufactured, you can hang hanging flowers in a pot with a hook. Then it will be beautiful from all sides.