How to make a decorative well yourself

A decorative well can be an excellent decoration of your summer cottage. And even if you have a permanent source of water, another beautiful well will not be superfluous. Moreover, it can also be used as a water storage, for example, for watering plants. If you decide to build a decorative well with your own hands, use the following tips, which will definitely facilitate the process you have conceived.

How to start construction

First of all, think about how you want to see a decorative well.

What will be its size, than you are going to decorate it.

In advance, you should think about whether it will be just an ornament, or you are going to fill it with water.

In this case, you should choose a suitable container - a barrel, a large pan, an old tank. In a word, what will be found in your dacha.

Course of construction

To build a decorative well with your own hands, you need to have patience, have a desire and a sufficient supply of free time.

To begin with, let's make a box-frame. You can put it out of large Using a cement-sand mortar. Put it as you see fit. The shape of the well is also determined independently, as a rule, it is round.

If you do not have stones, the box-frame can be made of a concrete ring, which will greatly simplify the task. Well, if there is neither one nor the other, the frame can be made independently. Take the mesh-mesh, fold it with a ring of the size you need and start pour cement cement.

When the frame-frame is ready, it's time to install the pillars of support. They can be concreted as framing the water tank or fixed separately. You can pillars, for example, wooden, just dig in, not forgetting to pour pebbles and crushed stone into the pit, and for greater reliability pour concrete.

We install a log that will serve to suspend the chain with a bucket. It is possible to refuse from this, but we are doing everything to ensure that our decorative well is as much as possible real.

Now proceed to install the roof. You can make it from the materials that you have in your country: metal sheets, tiles, etc.

Do not forget to install in our decorative well, made with your own hands, a water tank. It is still useful, because you can use it even for the adoption of a summer shower.

But that's not all. It remains to decorate the well, make it so that the eye rejoices.

As an ornament, you can use the same stone or other natural materials, glass, mosaic.

It is possible to paint some of its elements, for example a roof, plant a floret next to the well, etc. In a word, manifest a fantasy.

Adhering to these recommendations, you can quickly build a decorative well yourself. In fact, it's not as difficult as it may seem. And here, it should be noted, it all depends on your taste, the design of the cottage area and those ideas that you are ready to put into reality.

Do not forget to look after your well. First of all, do not allow to stagnate water and do not allow the accumulation of dirt and household waste near the well.