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How to make a concrete urn or vase for the flowers to the country, the participants experience FORUMHOUSE

Country life is associated not only with fresh air and smoke from the barbecue, but with an abundance of greenery and flowers, carefully cherished mistresses, and when, and the hosts. Most often the flowers are planted on beds, in rabatkah and mixborders, but no less popular, and an ornament of territory in different colors hanging pots and outdoor / ground vases. Those who prefer to purchase home-made decor and container plantations making with his hands out of scrap materials. In addition to wood, metal and a variety of household items, adapts the original flower beds, very popular and concrete. This versatile material allows you to translate virtually any ideas, it is characterized by high strength and durability, and ways to decorate concrete flowerpots are countless. Members of our portal also appreciated all the benefits of a concrete garden functional décor and shared their experiences.

Content

• Advantages of concrete forms.
• The mixture composition for pouring.
• Forms for concrete vases.
• Fill vases of different types of technology.

Advantages of concrete forms

Due to the versatility of concrete and its resistance to all weather factors that can "boast" wood and polymers thereof molded articles of any shape, size and functionality, including pots for colors. And with the advent of freely available different plasticizers and colorants for concrete, appeared an opportunity not only to improve the characteristics of the solution, and the finished product, but also the right to receive presentable. No wonder more and more popularity gains polished concrete floorThat looks like expensive exclusive coating. practically do not use ready-made adhesive mixtures, although they are in abundance, and kneaded homemade solution on the basis of Portland cement for concrete vases.

The composition of the mixture to fill

Standard composition:

• cement (usually M-500);
• sand;
• crushed stone / gravel or concrete block (depending on the size of the product can be dissolved without filler);
• water;
• builders;
• pigments (optional).

Massive flowerpots recommended reinforced today instead of the usual metal is often used polymer fibrovolokno, but it is possible and old-fashioned - a grid, metal rods, fiberglass. Another option - suitable metal products, coming out of the household, of which there are an abundance of almost every owner.

Forms for concrete flowerpots

As for the forms, then, in his own way - to sell plenty of prefabricated and monolithic forms that provide a variety of decorative vases. However, their use is rare as a decent view of the cost and because of the excellent Homebrew our imagination can turn into a masterpiece of almost any improvised device.

• Packaging - cartons, boxes and cases out of all more or less suitable.
• Plastic containers - bottles, cans, a flask, buckets of products and finishing materials.
• Household utensils and plastic - basins, buckets, baskets, tubs, pots, cups, pots, and others.
• Prefabricated form - made of wood or metal.
• Tissue forms - burlap, towels, rags, rectangular or oval.
• Clothes and shoes - most children and adults, rubber boots, but can be any old shoes, shoes, yes even sandals.

By and large, the shape can be almost any object caught my eye, if it really customized to fill at least once. Even manage to dig in the earth / sand wells, laid the film on top - great burdock leaf for texture and concrete. Full pot in such a way not to do, but a bowl succulents or decor for design, will perfectly.

One member of our portal is made of concrete boxes, but they may well be, and vases, if slightly modified form. Even in the original version, you can reorient the design of a flower.

IrinaZb

Participant FORUMHOUSE

My rubbish bin of concrete - cobble together scraps of old trapeze, someone more like it, can be squared. figure size should be larger than the diameter of the container (I use a bucket), which is inserted in the middle of the wooden form. Then he nailed wooden base to the mold. It covers the wall and bottom of the mold bucket polyethylene film, fixed with tape.

Fill vases of different types of technology

The desired wall thickness in massive pots achieve due to double forms - in most introduced smaller, and solution is placed between the walls and thoroughly compacted and bayonets (metal rod) to release air. Solution, kneaded with the addition of plasticizers stack easier denser concrete is obtained and without cavities. Make it easier to remove the preform and the casting surface is turned as flat, the shape is treated perfecting, engine oil, non-stick agent or a special compound, sold in building stores.

Proportions of solution picked individually, and it may be 2/3/3 (two part cement, three parts sand, three parts aggregate), and 1/3 (part cement, three parts sand). The consistency of the mass should be as thick cream, solution was kneaded to homogeneity, the quantity and method of addition of plasticizer depends on the manufacturer's recommendations. If the scheduled simultaneous with potting decoration on the bottom mold, or both the bottom and the walls, stacked pieces of tile or glass mosaic, pebbles, which is widely used in the interiorAnd other decorative elements, for example - the leaves of burdock.

IrinaZb

Cement mortar prepared: one part cement (I M-500) and three parts sand. The solution should be thicker than sour state. Plucked leaves burdock (at the time they were put into a bucket of water to not wilted) then flooded cement slurry into the mold, making future bottom boxes (thickness 8-10sm). Leaves that are not slipping, cemented stapler. Yes, I reinforced boxes - gradually. If it can be called reinforcement. I scribbled on the bottom of the metal tubes, and on the edges a little bit. The shape set in center bucket wrapped film in the concrete is not yet solidified, and gradually pouring the solution into partitions, tucked wire (cell in). After about an hour it is necessary to pull the bucket, then another hard will it from there, "pull."

Some technologies require adding as a placeholder instead of the usual gravel toppings - a large quartz sand, corundum grit, color dropout granite, marble chips. In this case, after extracting from the mold the pot (6-8 hours), it is treated with a jet of water under pressure to wash the topsheet and show composite. Crumb is not deficient, especially today.

Mmapp

Member FORUMHOUSE

Stone chippings - a waste of the processing of various types of stone. It is of several fractions (size), starting from and above 0.5 mm. The color depends on a stone. Sold as a puncture (with sharp edges), and rounded, smoothed (slightly more expensive) due to additional processing. You can buy it in large construction hypermarkets or ordered through the Internet. You can buy rock dust at the pet store and there it goes to the bottom of the filling of aquariums, but get a decent higher. Before the mixture of crumbs sure to thoroughly rinse. The result of using unwashed shown in the photo. Durability such vases significantly lower. Therefore, the inner side of fluff further "clean" the concrete (DSP).

Dates stripping forms are individual and depend on the size of the product, as well as on weather conditions, on average - a day later. Harvesting should to stand a certain time for concrete curing, this period ranges from one week to two. Small flower for this term can be immersed in water, large size is wrapped with film and abundantly periodically sprayed with water. Coloring and hydrophobizing treatment or other means is conducted after drying. If you plan to embossing stencils or blanks decoration stone, glass and other decorations, they pressed into the wall after stripping before the concrete is grasped completely and malleable.

IrinaZb

Urn covered film for 5-6 days, after turned over by unscrewing the screws at the bottom, disassembled walls. The leaves are washed well under the pressure of the water jets. If necessary, the top and sidewall of the casting can be sanded disc (grinder) to smooth sharp edges. To paint box can be any suitable coatings.

For decoration you can use seashells.

Excellent pots are obtained from plastic barrels.

molorik

Member FORUMHOUSE

Take the plastic barrel, the upper cut portion and also cut the cut along the bottom. Then, we need euro-bucket, with which we cut off the top, rigid part (they have sold b / y), as well as the cover of the barrel. Buckets come in different diameters, we fit 32 cm., It clearly fits into the recess in the lid. For a form, you must make two clamps that will pull the barrel, and you can pull any wire. Now we cover with a bucket and barrel all! Can be filled with concrete, it goes somewhere three buckets, concrete is growing three days. After three days, we turn over the form, remove the lid, weaken collars and to rejoice in what we have!

Conveniently, the form is obtained reusable bucket of barrels can be removed, but you can leave. Making a vase is a matter of taste and preference, molorik from spouse lumped flat vases pebbles and pasted by conventional tile adhesive. Products, of course, heavy, but especially turning over their site is not planned - they are designed to be installed on the lawn to "paint" its cascading petunias.

Original concrete flower pots are made of burlap, some dry solution.

Garkusha

Member FORUMHOUSE

Made for themselves vases for flowers made of concrete, rags and containers (from under coats and from under the paint). I prepare a rag (preferably thicker layer turned to good), try on, soak in water and strongly squeeze. Razvozhu solution - one part cement (M-500) and three parts sand. Water for at least, but in order to fully wet (drag) basis. Edge moistened cloth wrap (easier together) into the mold evenly draping folds. Outside hands do not touch anything, give a little dry workpieces and close the film for three days, soaking periodically. After drying, the pots can be painted - in acrylic primer add color (color at your discretion) and cover with a brush. After the paint has dried, varnished concrete for the stone and ready. Fill the earth (this is the wife did), and plant flowers.

In general - do yourself not only "eternal", but also an exclusive pot is quite real. Concrete, a little ingenuity and imagination and years of admiring not only the content but also the form.

In recent years become increasingly popular style loft, and with it the concrete not only in the gardening sector, but and in the interior. Concrete perfectly turns fully functional and very distinctive furniture. Not less interesting material such as tadelakt - is not only an ancient type of plaster, but also an excellent material for the coating of concrete sinks.

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