Handymen in the different countries use the unnecessary or spoiled things for creation of the real masterpieces for a long time. To here take a touch a tire from a wheel, many throw out it, without thinking that it is an excellent basis for a beautiful bed. Today several options are known as to make with own hands a bed of a tire. It is a little works and personal plot it will be possible to decorate with beautiful and bright composition.
How to make a bed of a tire?
We bring to your attention several options simple, but at the same time original compositions which will decorate any territory.
Option No. 1. It is rather large-scale and many-tier composition for which it is necessary to allocate a lot of place. Prepare several tires of different diameters which need to be painted at first with aqueous emulsion or enamel ink, without having forgotten to degrease a surface previously. By the way, tires can play a role not only a flowerpot, but also a cachepot, only in that case, it is worth painting them and inside. When everything dries, we pass to formation with the hands, beds of tires at the dacha, having laid out tires a pyramid. That the earth did not drop out, it is recommended to put a grid and that water did not pour out when watering on a bottom, put stones. The next stage – fill the earth and plant the chosen plants, without having forgotten them to water at the end. If you do a cachepot, then fill tires with decorative pebbles or shells and just insert into them plants in pots.
Option No. 2. For production of a basis for the following bed of an automobile tire, it should be turned out therefore it is better to pick up import products as they are softer, so, and pliable. Besides, it is recommended to choose winter rubber with the most worn-out protector. For work surely prepare gloves which have to protect hands as to wash traces from rubber rather difficult. The knife to make cuts, has to be very well ground. Still the suitable tool is the high-quality fret saw or a hacksaw. To make a basting of the line of a section use a marker or swept. For final finishing of a bed of old tires it is necessary to use the paint intended for external works. The fine decision – enamel with a brilliant surface. For a decor it is possible to use different pebbles and other jewelry. It is the best of all to take a tire together with a disk which will play a role of a bottom and a drainage it is not necessary to use.
Step-by-step instruction of production:
- For a start the tire should be cleaned from the saved-up dirt, and then, to dry properly. If you found nails or other foreign objects on a surface, then they should be removed surely.
- From one outer side it is necessary to plan the line of future section. That the drawing turned out, at first plan an equal circle, and then, on it already draw waves. The most suitable length for petals – 12 cm, but you can do everything on the discretion.
- After that it is possible to pass to cutting on the specified line. Council of people who more than once did by the hands a bed of an automobile tire – a knife needs to be moistened periodically in soap water that will facilitate work. You should not throw out the cut-out part as it can be used as a support of future flowerpot.
- Let's pass to the most difficult part – reversing of a tire. Turn it so that the cut-out part lay on the earth. Then attack some regions, and pull up. Repeat the same, circling.
- It was necessary only to degrease a surface of two details and to paint them. After that establish a bed to the desirable place, fill the earth and plant plants.