Some vacationers adore to enjoy the murmur of the water and deliberately for the sake of doing for the fountains and streams for the sites. However, the variation is much easier to eat - rain chains. Byl, listen to the melody of the flowing jets you can just during the rain, everything is often for the sake of relaxing it all pretty. But to eat the hope to save for gutters and change them is an unusual, very rare in our region decorative element, who at once collects water from the roof and shows the beauty of its movement to all that is close.
The mechanism of rain chains
Simple, which the fiction of rain chains belongs to the inhabitants of the country of the rising sun, able to do near themselves the focus of relaxation. In their culture, the sight of water is considered one of the most soothing causes. Residents of the country of the rising sun invented instead of the usual gutter, in which, not necessarily the flowing jets, rain chains. These are open-type constructions, according to which water moves in a cascade, flowing from one container to another.
In most cases, pots are hollowed decorative pots in the form of a cone, located in the funnel upwards. To be a small rain of the jet flow into the through hole from below, to be large - flow from all the edges of the pot. Between the containers are fastened with a decorative chain, why the whole structure was called"kusari doi", which means"rain chains"in Japanese.
Apogee with is fixed weapon for the cornice, unswervingly near the water drainage site, and the bottom is firmly strengthened with an anchor to the ground, or the baggage is tied down and lowered to the bottom of the water intake (drums or deliberately excavated small basin, a mixture of dripping drops is much enough). This is necessary for the sake of that, in the time of strong gusts of the wind, the mountain did not swing and did not strike the building. In the design of the rain chain, an important element is a beautiful water basin, to which the edge of the chain is fixed for the sake of wind protection
For the sake of which climate is this building suitable?
Being all the original originality of the rain chains causes a lot of questions. The real thick - how they are relevant in a cool climate with severe winters, because if there is a sediment, then after a minute thaw, it can turn into a block of ice. And such an ice statue weighs a lot. Will she tear the cornice? For the iron chain with ornate patterns, the water medicine looks great, and in winter it acquires the appearance of a chic chill pillar
In fact, all the time depends on the choice of the form of the rain chain. In the Land of the Rising Sun, where the climate is mild, the designs in most cases use abundantly similar containers, but in the northern countries the view is quite different. For example, in Norway, where they like a similar decor element, sometimes pots are used in kusari doi. Usually an unusual large mountain is suspended, with convolutions and ornate patterns, which itself is a masterpiece of forge art itself. The water flows according to it more beautifully, resembling a murmuring stream, but in winter it has nothing to delay. The skeleton slightly icy, covering with icicles and frozen drops, which looks especially and very presentable.
You see, rain chains are allowed to hang in any climate, choosing a design taking into account the severity of winter. In order that the ice chain does not increase in the winter for a rain chain, it is permissible to select a sample from large links without using containers
The most unique forms of Kusari Doi
Find the form and paint of the rain chain on sale, which the desire to answer the design of the site is quite difficult, because in our country this element of decor is still a rarity. In most cases, cone-shaped standard pots are offered without any pretensions to the highest art. Models of light work of copper are very expensive. It remains one thing: to make the product by yourself. And this is very good for many gardeners. Let's consider more worthy attention forms of rain chains, which you can make yourself. The most popular model of the rain chain is the structure of iron copper pots, reminiscent of flower pots, because it looks organically in any landscape
Buildings from kettles or children's crayons
From old kettles or ordinary plastic leks it is allowed to design an unusual mountain for the sake of country style or at least one of the village styles. The basis for which the entire structure should be approached is to begin the decorative chain. It can be freely found in any flower shop (like protection for the sake of flower beds or paths).
To her for an equal distance, teapots or watering cans are suspended for no reason, so that the spouts fall like above the hole in order to collect water in the lower container. Here, water enough to fill the kettle before the time until it starts to happen from the spout. And thence to the next container. And for no reason - until it reaches the bottom kettle of the chain. The final spout (bottom container) is located above the barrel or groove of the storm sewer. To develop the rain chain from the teapots is proud to correctly fix the capacity, so that from the spouts of the upper water flowed like a hole in the bottom
A sample of"Tea pair"
A good version of the rain chain for the sake of a veranda or another small structure can begin to look like a tea mist. For this, the iron environment, like those made in the old days from copper, iron, etc., is useful.
The beginning of the construction (i.e., the vertex) is to make the kettle, tie it up with a handle, with a spout downward.
Near the handle of the kettle, drill a hole for the body, through which the water is sufficiently to enter the container and drain through the nozzle further.
Glue it with cool welding of the saucer and cup according to the pairs.
Drill a hole in each tea pair, which must exist a little more than the size of the chain links. This is necessary, in order to freely pass the tea pair through the whole chain and fix it for the proper place.
Inside each cup, weld a short police officer, who is pretty much identifying a tea pair for a chain-based.
Suspend the finished elements at regular intervals.
Now you literally can"serve tea": fill the water from the hose with a high kettle to see, it's fine to flow fairly fluidly from one cup to the other. If the house has ancient tea sets made of copper or other metals that have not been used for a long time according to the purpose, turn them into a rain mountain.
A rain chain of zinc-coated buckets
The usual, however long-term option is considered to be a structure of small zinc-coated buckets. They are shiny, showy, and perfectly mixed with a gutter system made of metal. The chains with the volume of buckets in front of 3 liters look more and less defenseless. That the rain mountain from the zinc-covered buckets looked fashionable, without any additional elements (chain, hooks, water receptacle) must also exist shiny and metallic
The view of their installation is:
Count the required number of buckets, so that the gap between them is equated to 3-5 links of the chain.
A drill makes a hole in the bottom of each container, through which the chain-base freely passes.
All the barbs in the drilled hole are cleaned with a ratfil.
To each handle, buckets are fixed with iron pliers by the pliers, in the form of a letter S, because of who will hang the container for the chain frame.
Tie a chain-base to the cornice.
Every weather passes through it and fixes it for links with hooks, trying to refrain from a monotonous gap between elements.
Secure the bottom end of the chain with a weft or a couple of large nuts and hide them for a day with a huge container for collecting water. In this situation, it's a good idea to look 15-liter zinc-coated weather or an iron 40-liter flask made of stainless steel.
The rain mountain from small buckets looks great for small country cottages and verandas built in the spirit of a rustic style
Chain options without containers
To exclude the possibility of ice impinging for a drain in cool areas - make a rain mountain without containers. The decor options for the database chain can exist fairly:
Plastic grape clusters (usually they are purchased for the decoration of the kitchen or dining room). Tie them up in bundles, and for a full year your drain is pretty suggestive of the vine.
Iron leaves. They are cut out of copper, because it has the attribute of overflowing and giving different colors of bronze-brown tones, which is reminiscent of the fall foliage paint. Be sure to cut through each leaf veins-hollows, in order to increase the degree of water permeability according to the chain. The leaves are fixed for the chain-based groups, according to 3-4 pieces.
Calorie balloons. The mountain of big balls looks fashionable and rich, mainly if they have gold or metallized colors. To find such balls you need in the department of Christmas-tree toys, and then festivities, if they depreciate and cost several times cheaper. The balls are suspended by a cascade, to each link of the chain - according to 2 pieces from the opposite sides.
Umbrellas and fountains. Occupation umbrellas can play bottoms through plastic bottles. They have a relief shape, similar to the petal. The bottom of the bottle is cut, leaving a 7-10 cm high, and an iron hot-tempered object makes a hole in the day. The prepared elements are threaded into the chain with the bottom up, fixing a separate element with hooks fixed from the 3 sides of the umbrella. In order to perform the fountain, you need to block only the upper part of the bottle, and everything else, in fact, before the bottom, cut into thin strips. Make holes, like described above, but fix the elements not upside down, but down, so that the stripes perfectly arched.
For cascading iron leaves, petals and similar forms of water, it is difficult to linger, therefore in winter they sometimes grow over ice
If you want to decorate the veranda with a rain chain for the playground, try to design unique and joyful shapes from plastic bottles.
Any owner can come up with his own icon of the rain chain. The bottom line is to own a little imagination and the will to perform your own part inimitable.
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