Brick fences for private houses

Properly chosen fence will serve you for many decades without complaints, while providing the most reliable protection against unpleasant visitors. With the construction of this original building you can handle yourself. The choice of the owner of the site offers various types of brick structures in an unusual design.

To make a completely safe area of ​​a private house, every man in the street seeks to build the most reliable fencing. In this case, the best type of fence is considered by many to be brick construction. Building a fence from this material, everyone will be able to choose the height of the new fence, its thickness and even shape.

The main positive aspects of brick fencing:

• This is the most reliable fence. Such a fence has a high strength, it can not only hide the site from prying eyes, but also protects from other external influences (if there is a certain height that you can choose for yourself.
• Impressive service life - the fence can serve for many years not only to you, but also to your children, and perhaps even to grandchildren, because the laying of this material is not afraid of natural disasters and frequent temperature changes in winter and summer.
• The fence looks solid and attractive. During use, such a fence will not require special care. If the material chosen by you is really high-quality and new, then no painting or other coatings will be necessary for it. You can lay out a stylish decorative wall with all sorts of patterns and amazing shapes. Ordinary brick canvases can be supplemented with arches and even columns.
• The possibility of transformation of any site and structure. A brick fence can be not only a very reliable protection, but also a stylish decoration of the landscape design, a bright completion of a full-fledged architectural ensemble.

A fence made of brick material has some drawbacks:

• quite a considerable price of both the material itself and the works on its installation (for this reason, many owners of cottages with homestead plots opt for combining modern brickwork with the most inexpensive materials);
• when using a brick that was already in use (to save), the life of the fence is much reduced;
• To get a really good brick fence, you need a quality foundation that will increase both the installation time and the general estimate for construction.

To build a beautiful and massive fence you need to first choose the most suitable type of brick for it. It is necessary to do this, based on their own tastes and the amount available.

Each version of this material has its own characteristics:

• Due to the popularity of decorative masonry in the construction market facing brick has a huge demand. In the masonry of such a product, you can add patterns and original colors. Often, to make the construction easier, wood supplements are used.The facing brick helps to imitate different materials and it does not need finishing treatment, it can be presented in the right colors and popular textures.
• Chipped brick used for decorating. Nowadays, it is often used to decorate solid fences. It should be noted that the fences are quite powerful and durable. A stab product helps to build unusual types of fencing. And the use of various forms and colors of bricks will give any structure a more elegant look that will ideally be combined with the garden plot.
• At installation of fences it is possible to apply and ceramic brick. It has a rough texture visible on the eyes. And the fact that you can choose products of different colors will allow you to give your fence a unique and unique look. As for the pillars, they are also often built of brick. You can choose the same type of product that was used for the fence.

• To save, sometimes the townsfolk choose silicate brick. Outwardly, such a product will quite seriously lose to fencing from other types of bricks, but in terms of reliability, a silicate product will in no way yield to its expensive counterparts.In addition, if desired, such a fence can always be beautifully revetted.
• Fencing out clinker brick - one of the most fashionable trends in our days. Everyone likes its stylish look and tremendous possibilities at registration. Clinker brick is produced from clay of slate species, it is of excellent strength, has no voids and does not lose its quality after many decades. But the production technology of this material is very complex, which, of course, affects its cost.
• Fence of hyper pressed brick differs in environmental friendliness, it is not afraid of frost, it has excellent compressive strength, it has strict conformity with geometry, close to the clinker brick - ± 1 mm. The hyper pressed brick is presented in various color variants, and also has interesting textures - stabbed and smooth.

There are a huge number of aspects that distinguish brick fences from each other on various grounds. By themselves, they are divided into types in direct proportion to the materials used, the selected type of foundation, a certain height of the product,the original method of construction and the desired thickness of the masonry and the strength of the pillars.

Today, fences from Lego bricks. This is one of the original types of this building material, which is in many ways similar to the elements of the popular designer for children "Lego". The special design of the product helps to install the fence much faster. And for this you will not need any special skills. You just need to connect the parts of the upper elements with the parts of the row below, and then glue the result with special glue.

Brick fences can easily be combined with many popular materials - wood and stone, forged bars and metal profiles. They are so versatile that they always adequately cover the walls with forging or wooden shtaketnik, with a gate or polycarbonate gate.

To enhance the decorative function designers advise to apply a figured or multi-colored laying of such a fence or decorate it with stylish columns. This is also a highly demanded design reception today.You can also use the so-called "false-panel" - an imitation of a brick pillar for the fence.

Brick fence can be combined with almost any known material. These types of fences are called combined. The most popular are:

• The combination of brickwork and wood. The pillars are built from the chosen type of brick, and all the spans are made of wood. Nowadays, you can often see a brick fence with a wooden picket fence, different widths of boards or even gratings of high-quality wood. The fence made of bricks and lining stands out for its versatility of use, a very wide choice of materials, shapes and colors, as well as an acceptable cost.
• The combination of brick fence and corrugated. Metal profiles are much more durable than wood, although they are slightly inferior to them in aesthetic qualities. Such an interesting look of the fence combines not too high cost and solid appearance. Sheeting is very easy to install, easy to use and durable enough.The bars between the corrugated board can be of various sizes in width and height, their colors have no boundaries. All this is kept on a solid brick base, which in color is in harmony with the color of the structure on the site.
• Combination of brickwork and metal picket fence. This material in combination with any type of brick is endowed with the best characteristics in front of other types of fencing. It looks especially stylish when the building is built of the same type of brick. For huge garden plots it is best to choose a metal fence with massive pillars. Then the original landscape will be available for a look.

• The combination of bricks with forging. Unlike other options, this may not be suitable for everyone, since such fences demonstrate the entire inner space of the courtyard. Forging adds refinement to such a fence. In combination with any kind of brick forging looks interesting and at the same time succinctly.
• The combination of conventional brick with decorative or pounded ("ragged").
• Rarely seen the combination of masonry with stone, because it is quite an expensive type of fencing. They are very reliable and beautiful, like any other type of product. The combination of strict forms of bricks with arbitrary contours of sandstone, granite or shell rock will create a unique artistic image.

Calculate the number of bricks that you need to build a beautiful fence is quite simple, but then you need to know exactly the total area of ​​the fence being erected, that is, its dimensions.

In this calculation, the dependence will be as follows: when laying a wall in 1 brick, approximately 100 elements will be spent on the construction of 1 square meter, and in the case of double laying, approximately 200 pieces.

Before you begin construction, you should consider the desired height of the fence and the thickness of its walls. If the fence is built only for decoration purposes, then it can be erected in half of the brickwork, installing the elements of their long side along the fence. When mounting into a solid brick, it is best to lay the product with a long face across the fence, thereby creating the desired width.

If the fence should have a protective function, it is better to lay it in 1.5-2 bricks. The height can be from 50 cm to 3.5 m and even more. The height and thickness of the walls of the fence are closely related: the higher the masonry, the thicker the fence should be.

The range of brick materials in our time will amaze you with a variety of choices. The rich and rich color palette of products, in particular, facade and facing, may surprise the owners of private farmsteads. A brick can safely withstand a single color spectrum and become an accent of the building and the entire adjoining territory. Also, such a fence can be finished with colored plaster.

One of the most commonly used options for the selection of bricks for the fence - duplication of the material that was selected for the construction of the facade of the main building. The choice of bricks of one color for the cottage and for the fence will lead to the harmonization of the entire house-building ensemble. The most common brick of almost all the colors of red, as well as with reddish and brown tones. No wonder today the beautiful red-orange color came up with the name "brick".

Brick can be not only the usual red colors. A yellow brick fencing will look very worthy. This will immediately make your fence extraordinarily stylish. This brick color will be much better in harmony with all sorts of decorative inserts. In addition, the yellow brick will look great if it is “diluted” with dark shades, so you will get a truly aristocratic picture.

A good replacement for a traditional product today can be a “torn” brick. Its use can open up virtually limitless creative possibilities for you. This material is excellent for decorating walls inside the fence, and for its design outside. This is a particularly durable and long enough serving material. The "torn" brick will amaze you with a rich choice. Most often, colors are chosen specifically for the building or for the design of the entire household plot.

A fence can be built as attractive as possible if instead of the usual red product you choose dark colors - black or even blue, a bright red-brown tone. In this case, the seams are rubbed with a white solution of cement. This technique is usually used if the brick fence needs to be given the appearance of an “old” building.

Red brick underlines the classic appearance, solid status of its owner. High and powerful fences of red brick shade like its inaccessible appearance to any man in the street. Red brick can be plastered at the end of the laying. However, quite often red fences are not plastered as conceived by the owners.

Bavarian masonry can be actively used for decorative fencing, when it seems that harmonious mixing of several brick colors at once, most often from the red-brown spectrum, is obtained by chance. This is one of the types of decorative masonry when playing with color material. Facial ceramic "Slavic" brick is available with both smooth and embossed surface.

The brick wall of the color of red wine or Marsala shade looks magnificent. A fence with such a color can be a catchy element of the entire architectural structure.

It looks interesting fence "perforated." Brick is placed not solid next, and in a checkerboard pattern. As a result, the fence is obtained with gaps, through them you can easily consider what is being done both on the street and in the yard.

A low, but stylish fence can play the role of a curb - to zone a section of a garden path, flower bed or garden bed.

Due to the properties of the material, it is possible to make an original figure from it, sometimes complementing it with a unique decorative image.

To learn how to build a brick fence with your own hands, see the video below.