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Usually country gazebos are built of wood or brick. If you make every effort, both materials will make an excellent structure that provides a comfortable stay. Wood is easier to process, cheaper, but does not last long. A brick building will cost more, however, if the construction technology is followed, a beautiful gazebo will last for many years. Making a choice between these two options, brick gazebos are more reliable, and it is worth stopping at them.
Advantages of brick gazebos
The advantages of the tree are undeniable, and this must be recognized. Wood craftsmen are able to beautifully carve each element of the gazebo. Drawings of wooden structures are simple and clear even for a novice builder. However, brick also has its advantages, and we will now consider them:
- The main advantage of brick gazebos is their durability. If the correct design of the gazebo was initially made, and a solid foundation was laid, then such a structure will be enough for the owner of the dacha for life.
- In brick gazebos, it is typical to build a device for cooking inside. The easiest way is to fold the barbecue grill or buy a ceramic grill. If you want to equip a vacation spot on a grand scale, then it’s better to make a stove. In addition to the traditional barbecue grill, you can install a cauldron on it, build a smokehouse, lay countertops, etc.
- Summer canopies, of course, we all build from wood. They do not require complex drawings, as well as professional building skills. However, wood will have to be treated annually with antiseptics, impregnations, or simply painted. The same procedure is needed if the gazebo is welded from metal. The possibility of using facing bricks with a decorative texture saves the owner from subsequent finishing work. The walls of the constructed gazebo only need to be treated with hydrophobic impregnation.
- If the owner does not have money for decorative bricks, do not despair. An ordinary white or red brick will go to the construction of the gazebo. In the future, the walls can be lined with decorative stone. It is important to understand that brickwork is in perfect harmony with forged elements and wood. For example, on pillars, you can use decorative stone as a finish, and build low racks from wood, mounted on a brick parapet.
- A brick gazebo can be equipped as a full-fledged room. In such structures, blank walls with glazing, powerful columns, floors, a stove with a fireplace, etc. are acceptable. For such a building, you will definitely need a project and complex drawings.
You can build gazebos for summer cottages of any type from bricks. The simplest model would be a four-pillar building with a pitched roof. It does not even require drawing drawings, but for a complex structure, you will have to develop a project.
When erecting a serious structure, builders independently make accurate calculations and make their own additions. In fact, a project taken from the Internet is a sketch. A gazebo built according to such a drawing can turn out to be unreliable or poorly fit into the design of the yard.
Study Projects
Now we will offer typical designs of brick gazebos for review. All drawings are correct, but experienced builders must calculate the dimensions of the structure individually.
In the photo, brick gazebos are presented in hexagonal and rectangular shapes. For any summer cottage, a roof is erected from a complex truss system that requires a separate calculation.
The main stages of the construction of a brick gazebo
A do-it-yourself brick gazebo built with your own hands should harmoniously fit into the architectural buildings of the country yard. It is important that during the development of its project, the following should be taken into account: the relief of the site, the composition and depth of soil freezing, the level of underground water layers.
Choosing the type of foundation
It is necessary to build a foundation for a brick gazebo at the same time as the foundation for a barbecue or a stove. At this stage, it is immediately important to think about how the floors will be made. The best option for a brick building is the foundation of a monolithic reinforced concrete slab. The base is a reinforcing frame filled with concrete with crushed stone. The plate serves as a ready support for walls, pillars, barbecue or stove. In addition, ready-made floors are immediately obtained in the room. On the slab, it remains only to lay the tile or other selected material.
On highly mobile soils, only piles can be an alternative to a concrete slab. However, it is impossible to make such a foundation on your own. Pile driving requires special equipment. On top of the protruding piles, it is additionally necessary to pour a grillage from concrete. This non-buried type of strip foundation will take a lot of materials, and floors cannot be equipped on it. Again there will be additional costs.
Nevertheless, in the case of moving soil, it is better to stop on a monolithic slab. The shallowly buried base is not afraid of heaving, it can be poured on a site with a high location of groundwater, and thanks to a powerful reinforcing frame, the slab will withstand the heavy brick walls of a gazebo with a stove.
If the cottage is located on a plot with fixed ground, and there are no high groundwater deposits, you can build a brick gazebo on a strip foundation. It is poured along the perimeter of the walls, brick structures for cooking, parapets. The floors are laid on logs. A composite or simple board made of wood is suitable. Alternatively, chipboard is fixed on top of the logs, and then ceramic tiles are laid.
If the structure consists of only columns by the type of canopy, you can do without a foundation at all. In the place where the pillars will stand, they dig holes, pour a sand and gravel cushion, and pedestals are erected on cement mortar from bricks. Continuing up the brickwork, the columns of the gazebo are formed, supporting the roof.
The foundation itself, like the pillars, can be built from used bricks, and the columns can be lined with decorative stone on top.
We erect columns
The columns of a brick gazebo are necessarily erected with internal reinforcement. The thickness and number of metal elements depends on the section of the support. As a reinforcing frame, four reinforcement bars are used, concreted inside the masonry of the column.
The easiest way is to lay out brick pillars around a rack made of a metal pipe or profile. It is buried in the ground by 80 cm even before the foundation is poured with concrete. A sand and gravel cushion is poured under the rack, after which it is concreted in a pit at the same time as the slab or strip base is poured.
When using a pile foundation, metal racks for reinforcing columns are welded to a steel head. It is put on each pile, previously leveled. Alternatively, a channel can be welded horizontally to the steel head of the piles. In this case, you get a platform like a strip foundation. On it, you can lay out the walls of the gazebo or weld vertical poles from the pipe, and lay brick around it.
Columns can be given any design. They can be laid out of cobblestone or facing bricks. When using old materials, the pillars are finished with facing stone. It is allowed to use even wooden racks as reinforcement. In this case, only part of the column is covered with brickwork, and its upper part near the roof remains wooden. To give beauty, the wood is painted to match the color of the roof.
You can combine brickwork with any materials. There are no special requirements here, and it all depends on the personal preferences of the owner. The main thing is to avoid technological errors when building a brick gazebo on your own. A solid foundation is good. However, for the strength of the brickwork, a reinforcing mesh is built in every 5 rows.
Glazing of a brick gazebo
For a winter holiday in the country, a closed brick gazebo with glazed openings is best suited. A simple glazing option is to use old window frames. For their installation in the building provide additional jumpers. The disadvantage of window frames is the rapid decay of wood. Double-glazed windows will help to make a modern recreation area from closed-type bricks. They not only protect the room from the wind, but also save heat. To keep the glazed building cool in summer, blinds are placed on the windows or curtains are hung.
In the summer version, pergolas for protection from wind and mosquitoes perform frameless glazing. Large glass is installed between the columns on a profile located under the ceiling and along the floor. If necessary, the glass can be opened by sliding it sideways along the profile.
To fix the glass, there are aluminum profiles with a rubber seal. The connection is so hermetic that this technology is suitable even for glazing the roof of the gazebo.
Roof of a brick gazebo
A brick gazebo is a serious building, and the roof for it needs to be made attractive. As for the shape, it is better to dwell on one of the types of four-pitched roofs with a slope angle of slopes from 30о. It is advisable to choose a roofing material that is not heavy, suitable for the style of a brick structure. Most often, ondulin, soft tiles, corrugated board or metal tiles are used.
The video tells about the construction of a gazebo with their own hands:
A brick gazebo will not be completely comfortable without communications. In addition to lighting, water supply and sewerage are laid in the recreation room. If the brick gazebo is glazed, then inside you can put good furniture and hang a TV on the wall.