A fence made of metal sheets. The third stage: welding and painting steel structures

After pouring the concrete ribbons on the posts of the fence, it was necessary to weld prozhiliny, the lag between the pillars. Or lock them to be here with the help of X-brackets:

In my opinion, the best solution - it mounts on the bottom photo. Fence can be clad metal sheets of the same logs on both sides. They are not as push fence plane of its center line, the sheets are metal sheets along the plane of the pillars, rather than being spaced from the pole to the thickness prozhiliny - 2cm. Do not steal space.

Alternatively, you can just weld the pipe lag to the posts. In the case of a solid metal profile joists fence post is welded to the front side. I chose a design with prominent posts. Therefore prozhiliny welded flush with the rear face of the column.

X-arms seemed to me unreliable because it is likely that the vandals could just unscrew spans and taken away in a truck. I decided to weld the lugs. For the convenience of pre-purchased at aliekspress's such a clamp, especially for fixing pipes on the fence:

At work do not need an assistant for welding with them. He gave the pipe welding picked, removed and then scalded clamp connection on the perimeter.

Because I've never worked with welding and welding machine I had - called for help a brother who has a and inverter welder and welding experience.

To work, of course, I needed a Bulgarian - trimmed logs in a well-defined size. Because Old Sparky M-750 burned for the second time (already changed the rotor), I decided to buy a new one: Kolner KAG 125 / 900V the regulation of speed. On pruning pipes - at the time.

Trimming the pipe 40h20mm remained quantity of 3-5 cm.

On welding work took about three full days (two days a week and one day to the next). While the brother was engaged in welding prozhiliny, I topped up the last few meters of the concrete strip.

It was difficult to scald the entire tube circumference in abutment to the post. Uncomfortable scald in the bottom of pipe joints - dripping the molten metal. But everything is done perfectly. Later, before painting, brought down the entire scale of the welds.

Council:

In the Internet met roller where the author further concrete pillars by pouring the solution inside the funnel. So too I did. But the effect of this was not followed. Poles did not become more stable. In addition, if after that will be on the pillars to carry out welding work, do it after pouring - and not earlier than 1-2 weeks, when the concrete is finally caught. Otherwise, water vapor, generated at a high temperature may deform the post.

Next, I began to paint metal. I bought the paint:

- primer enamel in 1 to 3 rust (manufacturer Sayver), gray 2kg - 2 pieces.

- Enamel with hammer effect (manufacturer Quil), green, 2kg zakolerovannaya - 1pc.

- White spirit, 5l - 1pc.

But before painting, I got a nasty job of removing rust and degreasing metal surface with white spirit.

Sandpaper to sand, nailed to the bar. He held every facet of pipes. Time spent on the job a few nights.

This will not be enough ink volume a bit and I bought additional then another 1 liter of each color. It was necessary to look for the green priming enamel metal sheets in color, color RAL6005. But because take in one place, the color picked from the existing and as close as possible.

Painted so. Post back and all prozhiliny covered with gray paint, and the front and half side - green after drying gray. Pasted narrow masking tape and it provides smooth vertical line of the color change.

Poles after painting stood out in comparison with the color of metal sheets. This gave greater contrast fence. I liked the fact that the green paint has the effect of powder coating. Later it turned out that the paint is still of poor quality, and after the first winter climb round start. It was necessary to cover the entire column of gray painted, and then this green.

Perhaps, in this ground-enamel on rust it was a little rust inhibitor. Tint the front of the pillars is not going to, because I came up with another, more interesting and beautiful solution. This will be later.

Gray paint keeps well. Only in some places stood out rust. You can buy 1 liter of paint and cover these places. Gray almost completely identical to the gray color of the back of the metal sheets.

View of the fence - the northern boundary of the site where it is planned to tighten the net. What kind of - to tell in the next article.

Ahead of waiting for the next stage of work - is the installation of a grid of poles and installation of metal sheets. The most notable part of all the work. I'm talking about what happens day to do the work, and it can not be seen ...

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