Every owner of a house in the village at one point in time is faced with the question - how to fence off your plot so that it is both durable and beautiful? You can, of course, use a variety of metal structures and ordinary boards. But the easiest and cheapest way is to weave a wattle line. Plus, it looks stylish.
It is necessary
- Rods with a diameter of 2-3 cm
- Rods with a diameter of at least 5 cm for supports
- Sledgehammer
- Roulette
- Knife
- Wooden slats along the length of the wattle fence
- Secateurs
- Pieces of metal pipe
Instructions
Step 1
Remove the bark from all of the twigs. The most convenient way to do this is with a pinch. It is done in the same way as for baskets. Drive a peg into the ground, drill a hole from above at a distance of about 1/3 of the height and then split the peg from its upper end to this hole. Pull the rods through the gap formed. If the branches are collected in the spring, then the bark is removed very easily. The rods harvested in autumn or winter are best steamed first. Clean the support rods with an ordinary knife, cutting the bark along the entire length.
Step 2
Treat the rods with a colorless antiseptic. This will protect them from rotting, and the wattle will turn out to be more durable. If you want to create something very stylish, you can stain the rods.
Step 3
Mark out the space for the pegs. Draw a line along the border of the lot. In order for them to serve longer, you can remove the top layer of soil at a distance of about 10 cm to one side and the other from the line and replace it with sand. The distance between the pegs is 35 to 50 cm.
Step 4
Drive the pipe pieces into the marked points. They should not protrude much from the ground. Drive the pegs into the pipe. Try to keep them strictly vertical. In order for the wattle to turn out even, nail the rail on top.
Step 5
Start to weave from the bottom. For wattle, the so-called simple weaving is used, that is, the rod is alternately wound up on different sides of the supports. Try to select for each rod approximately equal in thickness. If the last cane is longer than necessary, cut it back. Weave the second row and subsequent ones with the same simple weaving, but so that the rods run around the supports from different sides. If the rod of the first row goes to the right of the wattle fence, then the rod of the second row should go to the left.
