At several times cheaper, not worse: making homemade garden swing

Dimensional drawings and photos. Do your family a comfortable sitting area

If enough kids swing simple design - two suspension with a wooden bar and to take off higher, the adult wants comfort. Garden swings for adults are more like garden furniture, sofa hanging on an independent frame. Soar under heaven, like a child to them no one is going, but for a pleasant stay in the area in the fresh air - the most it. Purchased garden swings are tangible, whereas the independent manufacturing material costs are several times lower. In this article, users of the portal FORUMHOUSE share with everyone the experience of manufacturing homemade garden swing c canopy and in the open.

Content

• Basis: how to assemble the swing
• How to make a swing of the metal with their hands
• How to make metal garden swing with your hands

Basis: how to assemble the swing

swing design consists of several main components:

• Frame.
• Seat.
• Carport.

bed

In most cases, a frame is collected and from two triangular-shaped side supports and struts with the upper transverse beam, which is attached to the seat. The supports may be solid - with a base or with a focus on two points, sometimes they are reinforced around the perimeter frame. Another popular option - a rectangular frame on four pillars, such swings resemble light, airy pergola or arbor compact.

Seat

The seat is designed as a shop or a settee. In the first case it is static - only one position, the second - folding sofa converts into a bed. Depending on the structural elements, the sofa can be a few provisions of the adjustment. The easiest option - static bench on a flat frame. It is more difficult, but also more convenient to use, ergonomic design kacheley- curved shape, with an indentation. Adjusting the sofa pickup device is carried out or the special frame with stops or by altering the height of the backrest attachment to suspensions. To rest on the swing was more convenient, they are fitted with removable mattresses or pillows Dwan, who removed to bad weather.

As chains used hangers, sometimes ropes, at least - a rigid coupling metal profile or wooden beam. If rigid coupling, in order to avoid serious injury increases the distance between the edges of the seat and legs. To the support beam hangers secured to the anchor (eyebolt) and hooks or brackets with bearings. The first option - the most common: everything you need can be purchased at any hardware store. The second is more difficult, there are necessary skills or turning the case, or the ability to order a professional.

shed

As an improvised canopy usually make lightweight frame, which can be stretched after the tilt or fixed polycarbonate. Less commonly used miniature truss system coated soft roof or other materials. In a simplified embodiment garden swing canopy absent. If the choice is made to crawl on the similarity of the pergola, its braiding are planting perennials that eventually entwine and side plates on both sides and the top.

Users of our site are two types of self-made garden swings - wood and metal. In all parts of the wooden structure of beams and planks, and metal - frame made of tube and the seat sheathed with wood.

How to make a wooden garden swing

Wood as a material for garden swing is selected because of its pleasant appearance, and because of the construction waste left from which you can build a swing, adding a little to the final assembly elements. Metalworks presupposes the existence of welding equipment and some skill. Wood also can be connected to the tongue and groove system and bolting, and for its processing tool there almost every home craftsman. An important rule: the tree has served over the years, his pre-treated with protective compounds.

glory Yurich

Member FORUMHOUSE

Swing for garden brewing for a long time, but the economy version of sickly suspicious metal pipes, three or five thousand, looked traumatic, and the more serious instances of comfort required to give these thousands of not less than ten or twenty, if not all, thirty. Budget and own thrift prevent such spending on a swing, and they really wanted to, so, despite the lack of a lot of experience, it was decided to do it myself.

From the previous building remained a stock of lumber was dokuplena missing planks and beams, fasteners and finishing materials for wood. The design selected simplified - support rails triangles, cross member, a seat on the chains and carabiners, the assembly bolts. Soft foam mattress sewed wife - foam in a colorful bag.

AND adoctor I opted for wood as the basic material, but the self-made complicated design is not only the possibility of converting the sofa into a bed, but also adjustable backrest in several positions.

adoctor

Member FORUMHOUSE

Finally, we were at the cottage garden swing, hand made. The idea matured in the winter, but as long as they do not like.

Materials, dimensions and drawings for fabrication and assembly of garden swings with his hands:

• Board 150x50 mm (6 m) - 8 units.
• Impregnation of wood (0.9 l) - 2 banks.
• Yachting varnish - 2 banks.
• Fasteners - Bolts, screws, nails, metal corners.
• Rope.

The cost price - within 3,500 rubles, a mattress for this bed will be suspended sewn from scrap materials.

Driving swing

Wood bought untreated, spread to bars and base pare down and grind, and then began to 145x45 mm. Dimensions swing - 210h190h140 cm (upper edge, a height of the crossbar, the legs of the width), the seat in the unfolded state - 180h140 cm. To strengthen the support structure between the legs tightened on studs M12 plus inset wooden parts. The angle was kept at 45⁰ protractor deviations are negligible. seat adjustment - using wooden poles and metal stud lockable in grooves cut into the frame. For convenience, the frame supports the concave.

Vitalyalya assembled frame for garden swing of timber residues and technical boards, and brushed and impregnation preservative turned them into decoration holiday yard. This model has an ergonomic seat with one position, mounting bolts, rope hung on anchors, solid canopy on joists.

ngq729 I decided to make a garden swing with your hands. The result was a pergola on four pillars entwined perennial.

ngq729

Member FORUMHOUSE

Who would have thought that the site on which the garden swing, hand made, can be an excellent holiday destination. Eyes are afraid - and make up, it is better to string up and do it yourself. I read the professional literature, reviewed forum and decided to build a swing designed in a country style.

In a frame structure for garden swing went bar 100x100 mm, connection elements - "paw" lower power board larch, in it a hole for suspension screwed ring (chains). Curved strut seat carved pattern of dyuymovka, the template is copied from the back seat, trim - oak bars.

How to make a swing of the metal with their hands

People who know how to work with metal, near metal frame with wood paneling: the cost of the material is feasible, and thanks to the skills, the assembly takes a minimum of time. These craftsmen have also enough, and that's Sergey29 I decided to get a swing at the request of his wife, but ready-made options it did not satisfy.

Sergey29

Member FORUMHOUSE

Searched the shops, but all that occurred in the sale, there was some "gutta-percha", unreliable, and the price tags are not very happy. Therefore, to determine the shape and size, I decided to collect himself. Made drawing materials purchased and set to work.

To make and install garden swing himself, our party needed materials:

• Metal pipe b / in (48 mm) - 22 m.
• Metal seat profile (25x25 mm) - 10 m.
• Zinc Suspension chain (6 mm) - 6 m.
• Furniture galvanized bolts (M5) - 15 pcs.
• Carbines - 2 pcs.
• Strapping plate (200x200x3 mm) - 4 pcs.
• The connectors on the circuit - 2 pcs.
• Seat trim boards (2000x120x18 mm) - 7 pcs.
• Mastic (asphalt) - 1 kg.
• Paint rust protected - 1 kg.

The total cost of the swing - about 2500 rubles.

The frame was cooked for evening, for static on each support plate and is welded around the perimeter of piping started up tube which was subsequently dug into the ground. Support with strapping recessed into the ground about half a meter. Even without a concrete structure stands firmly. Initially, the seat was suspended on anchors and hooks, but much squeaked so were later welded brackets with bearings. The next season swing acquired awning polycarbonate soft mattresses filled with foam (50 mm) and the covers of waterproof fabric (pictured 3).

Zhekaxxx83 for the construction of suburban swing too chose a combined version of the metal / wood, but fashioned a folding seat.

Zhekaxxx83

Member FORUMHOUSE

It all started with a photo of the network - the idea impressed and I decided to try to do it myself. First draws and pretended to AutoCAD plan, then gradually embodied in metal. The biggest problem was to create a back decomposition, when the swing take recumbency.

The frame - made of metallic profiled pipe of 2 mm thick. Elements bent at the factory, but if the house has a tube bender, the problem is removed. The height of the structure at the top - about 2.5 meters, a width between the supports - about 2 meters, the distance between the legs - about 1.3 meters. back and seat dimensions at the same settee - 1600h400 mm length attached to a sheet of polycarbonate, so if you need a bed more, will have to start the crossmember in the frame overhang. Hard suspensions - in the same tube, with a fastening crosspiece on carabiner. Compound crossbeams - bolt to be able to dismantle the structure. To increase the rigidity can be increased leg length and make piping or concreted legs into the ground (see. mounting scheme).

Garden swing, hand made, must withstand, in contrast to the children, a load of about 300 kg.

Another embodiment of a metal frame with wooden paneling of the seat bikoonin.

bikoonin

Member FORUMHOUSE

I've also started a metal swings - back rest is folding, the frame under the tent.

The frame is fully welded, of a circular pipe, fixed to the crossbeam chains - to the bearings, the backrest locking in a seated position - in karabiners to the chains.

More options Swing - on FORUMHOUSE, in a branch "Garden swing", where each will choose a suitable option, clear diagrams, instructions and receive assistance. A rest on the air, we can not only swing, but and a sun lounger, incidentally, also homemade. Not only swings and sunbeds, but furniture can make your own, for example - wooden beds. In the video, Cottage on a narrow section - another kind of country swing, but double.

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