Fence from a profile pipe. Production of a welded fence

Every good landlord strives to make his home beautiful, cozy and protected. Interior design is just the beginning, and the work itself ends in the yard. Not the last role is given to a fence, which not only can protect residents and property from illegal encroachment, but also to decorate the whole yard. When financial opportunities are limited, the best decision will be to build a fence from a profile pipe with your own hands.

Profile steel pipes are often used to make fences, as differ in durability and long service life

Use of a professional pipe as a material for a fence

Profile pipe is a product with a cross section, different from round. The most common square, rectangular and oval pipe rolling. This is due to the fact, that the features of the configuration give such a product higher strength with the same wall thickness, if you compare it with a round pipe.

The nomenclature of profile pipes for a fence is very extensive. They are usually used in a private yard:

• thin-walled products. Metal professional pipes of section fall into this category 25?25 millimeters, the thickness of the walls of which varies in the range of millimeters. They are most often used to fill fences;
• samples of medium size. These include cross-sectional products 100?100 millimeters and with a wall thickness of up to 4 mm They are used, usually, as support columns of a metal fence from a profile pipe.

Useful to know! Large professional pipe cross section is close 200?200 millimeters and with a wall thickness of up to 8 millimeters to create fences are not widespread. Mainly, they are used as elements of frames of prefabricated buildings. in addition, from them bases for big machines are made.

Pipes of different sizes are used to make the fence - large for the base, and small - for parts, load-bearing

Most often, a fence made of profiled pipe is created on the basis of products with a cross section 40?40 or 50?50 millimeters with walls about thick 3 millimeters.

Advantages and disadvantages

Various technologies are used for the production of such structures. Usually the owners of country cottages prefer welded fences made of profiled pipe, which are assembled on a modular basis.

Regardless of the type, fences of this type have the following advantages:

• strength and durability. If the foundation was designed correctly, and the anti-corrosion coating is updated in time, the fence from a profile pipe will stand more than ten years without emergence of the slightest signs of wear;
• possibility of installation in flight of almost any size. Perform procedures for measuring and adjusting the geometry of the workpieces to the required values, usually, does not cause difficulties;
• possibility of combining materials. Example, the fence from a profile pipe is allowed to be established on support from a brick or to supplement with a covering by a profiled sheet.

That fact, that the fence is transparent, can be assessed from two points of view. On the one hand, everything is visible, what's going on behind the fence, and on the other - plants, growing on the border of the site, are not shaded. That your yard was protected from intrusive looks, it is possible to sheathe a fence from within with a profiled sheet or translucent plastic.

If necessary, the space between the pipes can be closed with any material - wood, metal, plastic

Another disadvantage of the fence made of corrugated pipe is the insecurity of the yard from the wind. After all, the structure is built of rails at a certain distance from each other.

Production of a welded fence

The fence of this type is less expensive to install and more reliable, than sectional or modular. The only difficulty is that, what you need a welding machine and skills to work with it. If you have it all, it is possible to start production of a fence from a profile pipe. The sequence of stages is as follows:

• carefully align the workpieces. This operation is required, as factory rolling may have deviations from the longitudinal axis;
• the next stage - trimming of blanks with subsequent trimming;
• in parallel, create a drawing of the fence. Sketches of fences, created from profile pipes, you can search the web or draw yourself;
• then make the frames of the sections to be installed along the perimeter of the site. This is done by welding pipes;
• then weld to the frame of the filling pipe, followed by decorative elements.

To begin, you need to install supports for the fence, they are dug up or driven into the ground

Sectional constructions in factory execution

As an alternative to welding of a fence from a profile pipe there is installation directly on a site of a prefabricated design from ready elements. In most cases, the assembly of sectional fences are specialized assembly teams.

The advantages of this approach are many. The main ones are:

• variety of designs. In the large catalog of products there are products of varying degrees of complexity;
• ease of installation. Usually, welding is not used for assembly of sectional fences: individual segments are connected by clamps.

Useful to know! The technology implemented at the factories provides protective processing of modules, which provides high resistance to being in a humid environment.

Installation of a fence

Buy modules of industrial execution or make sections - only half the battle. That the fence served for a long time, such products still need to be qualitatively installed.

Sections of the future fence can be made yourself or buy ready-made

This should be done as follows:

1. In accordance with the size of the sections, mark places, where the support columns will be located. Make holes in the soil taking into account the following requirements: their diameter should be on 100 millimeters above the cross section of the support; depth in loose soil - 1,5 meters, and in dense enough 1 meters.
2. Falling asleep close 30 centimeters of rubble, compact it.
3. Install the column. As such, you can use a thick profile pipe for the fence. Then pour a little more gravel into the hole, and then pour the cement mortar there. Fixation of a support needs to be carried out by extensions.
4. Allow the solution to solidify, install a fence section between adjacent supports and weld to them. The last operation should be done only after pre-leveling the sections. Often the design of the fence allows the use of welding, and special fasteners.
5. It is allowed to weld decorative elements to a lattice already after installation of section.
6. At the final stage, degrease the metal and paint all the pipes. This will protect the metal fence from corrosion.

Materials and tools

The amount of required material is calculated according to the drawing. It must be taken into account, that will go to waste close 10-15%.

The list of materials looks like this:

• pipes for vertical beams. Optimal diameter - 10 mm;
• pipes for supports. Their intersection must be at least 5 cm;
• pipes for installation of horizontal crossbeams with a diameter of 30… 50 mm;
• cement, sand, crushed stone;
• materials for reliable fastening of gate;
• if you plan to attach a section of corrugated board to the frame welded from pipes, in the list of materials and make it.

Usually, the main part of the work on the installation of a metal fence is made by welding

Also, you will not do without such tools:

• locksmith keys;
• shovel or drill;
• drills;
• grinders;
• welding machine.

The fence on a grave from a profile pipe - an aesthetic and reliable design

This decorative structure is designed to complete the architectural design of the memorial. The purpose of erecting such fences from the profile pipe is the territorial separation of the grave from the adjacent burials and the visual integration of the scattered details of the tombstone into one composition.. Commercial organizations offer more than a dozen solutions for memorial structures. However, the fence of the profile pipe belongs to the palm of supremacy in this sad matter.

The fact of existence of a set of options of decorative and design decisions is caused by the wide range of the existing standard sizes of profile pipe rolling.. In general, the fence on the grave can be divided into the following types:

• ware, combine different sizes of profile pipes for racks, interior decor and for the frame;
• load-bearing columns and frame made of profile pipe in combination with a square rod, corner and stripe for patterns.
• Enclosing structures on the grave of profiled pipe, supplemented by forging elements.

On a side note! The first type is characterized by rectilinear ornamental geometry and monumentality. The second option is characterized by visual lightness, and the third distinguishes a combination of openwork decor and the power of the frame.

It is not difficult to make a design for framing a ritual tombstone on your own. But here even the skilful owner without drawing of a fence on a grave from a profile pipe cannot do.

The final dimensions of the fence are determined by the architecture of the memorial site, but standard sizes are considered 2?3 m.

Profile pipes are also used as load-bearing elements for cemetery fences

The development of the drawing must be carried out taking into account the key details of the fence:

• load-bearing columns are made of square tubes with a cross section 25?25, 30?30 or 40?40 millimeters;
• pipe rolling is used for frame sections 20?20 or 25?25 millimeters;
• gate (an alternative may be a chain with a sag);
• carcass elements, play the role of patterns.

Columns are made by cutting pipes into meter segments with subsequent welding to their ends of metal plates 100?100 millimeters. In the process of arranging the grave fence, the columns are dug into the ground to a depth 40 centimeters. It is not necessary to strengthen them by pouring concrete into the holes. Rigid perimeter frame is already able to withstand significant mechanical loads.

The production of sections includes the following stages:

1. Cutting pipes into segments 2 meters for the lower and upper belt of the grave fence.
2. For racks of a framework segments in the length within 400… 500 millimeters are cut off.
3. Welding of details in a single section. It is necessary to take into account the planned pattern.
4. Connecting the frame components to the support posts.
5. Welding of hinges and hanging of a gate.

Having installed a fence on the grave, prime and paint the structure. The traditional coating of the frame is black enamel, and the tips are decorated with silver and bronze. The best metal protection, according to professionals, provided by the use of special blacksmith paints. They can withstand significant changes in humidity and temperature.