How to make the pier on the pond

If your backyard has a man-made pond or access to a natural pond, it is for you, for the owner, the question is relevant, how to arrange a convenient and aesthetic access to the water. And if you have not yet reached the hands of the coastal areas of improvement you, the ideas discussed in this article may be useful to you.

Home pier - it is not only a convenient dock for boats or small motor boats. It has a comfortable building construction for fishing, as well as an element of decor that can make a considerable contribution to the overall concept of landscape design. Therefore, to create it must be approached technically competent, not forgetting the creative component.

Domestic pier may be a capital fixed structure, based on piles.

Also pier structure may be floating. A case in point is a pontoon berth.

First, consider the features of the pontoon pier.

Pontoon hands. design advantages 

Why do we prefer pontoon designs when building a dock with his hands:

• simple structure;
• lightweight basic elements;
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• pontoon pier level in all weather conditions and at any time of the year will correspond to the level of water in the reservoir (ie, the builder creates like dock, do not have to wrestle with the following questions: what should be the height bearing piles, and at what level they should be tying);
• the ability to quickly dismantle the structure and move it to another suitable place;
• high service life;
• absolute protection from the spring break-up (if the pontoon pier apart and hide all his elements in the back room, no cold winter, no spring flooding will not threaten him decomposition).

salix (User FORUMHOUSE):

Piles of darkness alone. Take out of empty plastic bottles. At most a raft already 5 years. In the autumn we take out to the beach. It is easy to build, and construction will not carry away in the breaking of the ice.

In addition, if you are setting up a public pier on the pond (pond, river, etc.), local governments like the appearance of the object may not like. In this case, the dismantling of the pier will take you a few hours.

User salix It proposes to build a wooden pier on the basis of plastic bottles. On the one hand, the design aesthetics in this case can be questioned, but on the other - for this and needs master ingenuity! With a little imagination, a few hundred plastic bottles, boards to create the framework and the upper deck - all help quickly enough to create an elegant design, which can be based on a stable surface of the water surface pond.

Bottles can tie a metal grid.

And it is possible to pack them into polypropylene bags, as shown in the photograph.

Variant with sacks is more practical, because all fasten structural elements in this case by using an ordinary rope.

Consider the following version of the pontoon pier: pier on the basis of metal or plastic barrels.

To create such a structure will need a few barrels of 200 liters. Caps for barrels to be hermetically sealed. Between themselves the resulting "float" connected by a wooden frame, and attached to the shore by means of special pier struts.

hishouse (User FORUMHOUSE):

pier 3x3 m was made. For these dimensions sufficient to 6 drums (3 rows of two barrels in a row). Top was placed a light wood flooring of boards 40 mm. Barrels we welded together area 50-50, it is included and the board. There is also a corner of the jib fastened that go to the coast.

The pontoon jetty, no matter on which it is based (at barrels sealed plastic tubes or plastic bottles), connected to the shore by means mobile struts. The edge of the struts, which is connected to the pontoon must be raised or lowered in accordance with the change of water level in the pond. Pontoon will not stoop. Bond barrels together in various ways. In this you, again, will own ingenuity.

Sergey26 (User FORUMHOUSE):

Barrels need thick. Ears for their bonding cooked semiautomatic. Wooden beams covered with antiseptic. It is also possible to use thin-walled drums, and can be welded under the platform fences cask or use of band clamps, to which the weld corners (see photo).

To a floating pier does not apply over the side, it should be fixed with the help of an anchor.

Alabais (User FORUMHOUSE):

My neighbors did pier of 6 iron drums welded together. Located on top of the platform. Sunset on the pier - the ramp, pier itself is moored to the shore, and is drawn at anchor.

Here is an example of the pier from plastic pipes.

Pierce on the car cover

Berth disposed on supports of tires - durable construction, which construction does not require laborious operations for screwing or plugging metal piles.

Gorodets60 (User FORUMHOUSE):

Pier with supports of tire trucks in my 8 years worth. Interconnected wheels were fixed with stainless screws with wide washers. Inside sleep sand, t. K. He fills the cavity within the tire, and the structure becomes monumental. A year later, he added sand, t. To. It comes with time and tamping washout.

But what kind of structure built by the pier Alextr61 after consideration of all possible options.

It is based on the heavy tires on 40-ton BelAZ vehicles. The already massive tires author of the design is further secured with galvanized pipes and overlaid with stones. Here's a Pier turned him eventually.

Pierce on stilts

Consider the design capital berth which is on vertical piles, screwed or hammered into the bottom of the reservoir.

If you decide to do a stationary dock, this marina, the work should begin during the winter cold. More precisely - during winter frosts when the reservoir is covered with a thick layer of ice. It is standing on the ice, it is easiest to screw or to drive piles into the bottom of the reservoir.

SDP (User FORUMHOUSE):

Winter requires ice drill, hammer pipe weld metal frame, the frame lay wooden flooring.

Piles best to use screw. They are the least amenable to heave forces. Given that the pile will rely not too massive pier construction, screw them a sufficient depth can be two or three people forces, without resorting to the use of specialized technology.

Karavanbashi (User FORUMHOUSE):

It is not necessary technique. Spin is necessary in winter, drilled wells. The edges of the holes will help to sustain the level of verticality, as a further foothold. Spin should be at least two, but better - the three of us: two twist, the third stands with a level. And the water in this case a little help. It's not in the dry clay wrap.

After analyzing the best practices of our portal users can draw the following conclusions:

• Pile should enter the ground is not less than 1.5... 2 m (when the bottom is muddy, this parameter can reach 4 meters);
• Piles necessarily be a seal between the horizontal strapping (sometimes, reliability, equipped with metallic bracing piles);
• raising the level of the water surface relative to the piles need to determine in advance;
• The insides of hollow piles desirable pour reinforced concrete, which considerably increases the durability of the supports;
• Wooden elements of wharf should be treated with protective compounds.

OgneBioZaschita (User FORUMHOUSE):

Wood processing should be performed with antiseptics Group SAA. Their actions 10-15 years will be enough for sure.

The upper part of the piles must be above the maximum water level of 0.5-1 m Determine the level better spring -. During melting snow.

Using the above recommendations, it is possible to build not only a pier, but also small decorative bridge, as did one of our members.

KRN57 (FORUMHOUSE User):

Almost completed the bridge. Used tube - 57h3 mm yl scored in 1.5 m in sleep peskosmes pipe, after which it was rammed (winter was).. It turned hard. This spring, completed yet shed and lay the board.

And here is a photo.

If you would like more become familiar with varieties of home berths, as well as learn about the materialsOf which should be to build the coastal structures, it is recommended to visit the appropriate topic open to discussion on our portal. Having read useful articles posted on FORUMHOUSE pages, you'll learn how to make your own handsAs well as the screw screwed into the ground the pile. In addition we present you the video about how how to create a multi-reservoirThat fits into the landscape design infield.

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