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Typically, summerhouses are built from wood or brick. If you make the most of your efforts, both materials will create an excellent structure that will provide a comfortable rest. Wood is easier to process, costs less, 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. When choosing between these two options, brick gazebos are more reliable, and they are worth choosing.
Advantages of brick gazebos
The advantages of wood 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 to a novice builder. However, brick also has its advantages, and we will now look at 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 last the owner of the dacha for a lifetime.
- In brick gazebos, it is common to build a cooking device inside. The easiest way is to put up a barbecue grill or buy a ceramic grill.If you want to arrange your vacation spot on a grand scale, then it’s better to make a Russian stove. In addition to the traditional barbecue grill, you can install a cauldron on it, build a smokehouse, lay countertops, etc.
- Of course, we all build summer sheds from wood. They do not require complex drawings or professional construction skills. However, the 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. The construction of the gazebo will use ordinary white or red brick. 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. Let’s say you can use decorative stone as a finishing on the pillars, and build low racks from wood, mounted on a brick parapet.
- A brick gazebo can be equipped as a full-fledged room. In such buildings, blank walls with glazing, powerful columns, floors, a Russian stove with a fireplace, etc. are acceptable. For such a building, a project and complex drawings will definitely be needed.
You can build gazebos of any type from brick for your dacha. The simplest model could be a building of four pillars with a pitched roof. It doesn’t even require drawing drawings, but for a complex structure you will have to develop a project.
When constructing 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 may turn out to be unreliable or may not fit well into the design of the yard.
Introductory projects
Now we will offer typical designs of brick gazebos for your reference. 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 country house building, a roof is erected from a complex rafter system, which requires a separate calculation.
The main stages of constructing a brick gazebo
A self-built brick gazebo should fit harmoniously into the architectural buildings of the country yard. It is important that during the development of its project the following were taken into account: the topography of the site, the composition and depth of freezing of the soil, the level of underground water layers.
Choosing the type of foundation
It is necessary to build a brick foundation for a gazebo at the same time as the foundation for a barbecue or Russian 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 a foundation made of a monolithic reinforced concrete slab. The base is a reinforcing frame filled with concrete and crushed stone. The slab serves as a ready-made support for walls, pillars, barbecue or stove. In addition, the room immediately has finished floors. All that remains is to lay tiles or other selected material on the slab.
On highly mobile soils, only piles can be an alternative to a concrete slab. However, you won’t be able to make such a foundation yourself. Driving piles requires special equipment. On top of the protruding piles, an additional grillage of concrete must be poured. This shallow type of strip foundation will require a lot of materials, and floors cannot be built on it. Again there will be additional costs.
Still, in the case of moving soil, it is better to opt for a monolithic slab. The shallowly buried foundation is not afraid of heaving, can be poured in an area with high groundwater, and thanks to the powerful reinforcing frame, the slab will withstand the heavy brick walls of a gazebo with a Russian stove.
If the dacha is located on an area with stationary soil, and there are no high groundwater levels, you can build a brick gazebo on a strip foundation. It is poured around the perimeter of walls, brick cooking structures, and parapets. The floors are laid on logs. A composite or simple wood board will do. As an option, chipboard is attached to the logs on top, and then ceramic tiles are laid.
If the structure consists of only columns like a 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 erect brick pedestals on cement mortar. Continuing upward from the brickwork, pergola columns are formed that support 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
Columns of a brick gazebo must be erected with internal reinforcement. The thickness and number of metal elements depends on the cross-section of the support. Four reinforcement bars concreted inside the masonry column are used as a reinforcing frame.
The easiest way is to lay brick pillars around a stand made of a metal pipe or profile. It is buried 80 cm into the ground before the foundation is poured with concrete. A sand and gravel cushion is poured under the stand, after which it is concreted in the pit at the same time as the slab or strip base is poured.
When using a pile foundation, metal posts for reinforcing the columns are welded to the steel cap. It is put on each pile, previously leveled. Alternatively, a channel can be welded horizontally to the steel pile head. In this case, you will get a platform similar to a strip foundation. You can lay out the walls of the gazebo on it or weld vertical pillars from a pipe and cover it with bricks around it.
Columns can be given any design. They can be made of cobblestones or facing bricks. When using old materials, the pillars are finished with facing stone. Even wooden racks can be used as reinforcement. In this case, only part of the column is covered with brickwork, and its upper part near the roof remains wooden.To add 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 mistakes when building a brick gazebo yourself. A solid foundation is good. However, for the strength of the brickwork, a reinforcing mesh is embedded every 5 rows.
Glazing of a brick gazebo
For a winter holiday at the dacha, 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, additional jumpers are provided. The disadvantage of window frames is the rapid rotting of wood. Double-glazed windows will help you create a modern recreation area from closed brick. They will not only protect the room from the wind, but also save heat. To keep a glazed building cool in the summer, blinds or curtains are placed on the windows.
In the summer version of the gazebo, frameless glazing is used to protect against wind and mosquitoes. 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 secure the glass, there are aluminum profiles with a rubber seal. The connection is so tight that this technology is even suitable for glazing the roof of a 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 choose one of the types of hipped roofs with a slope angle of 30O. It is advisable to choose a roofing material that is not heavy and matches the style of the brick structure. Most often they use ondulin, soft tiles, corrugated sheets or metal tiles.
The video talks about building a gazebo with your own hands:
A brick gazebo will not be completely comfortable without communications. In addition to lighting, water supply and sewerage are installed in the recreation room. If the brick gazebo is glazed, then you can put good furniture inside and hang a TV on the wall.
