A sun canopy for the beach, simple in design, will be appreciated by many vacationers. Unlike an umbrella, it creates a lot of shade; costs less than an umbrella, as it is made from scrap materials; The design itself is light and collapsible, thanks to which it can easily fit into a hiking backpack.
Materials
To make a sun canopy with your own hands, prepare:
- hand drill;
- rubber hammer;
- inch PVC pipe (4 pcs. 90 cm each and 4 pcs. 60 cm each);
- inch PVC adapter – 8 pcs.;
- inch PVC couplings – 4 pcs.;
- plugs – 8 pcs.;
- 0.5 inch bolts and hex nuts for them - 4 pcs.;
- washers (2 pcs. for each bolt);
- paracord;
- tarpaulin;
- tent pegs.
Step 1. Modify the four plugs. Drill a hole in each for a bolt. Insert the bolt, washers and nut according to the diagram shown in the photo. Tighten the bolt thoroughly.
Step 2. Place the resulting plugs onto two long PVC tubes and two shorter tubes. To ensure they sit thoroughly, hammer them in with a rubber mallet.
Step 3. Attach PVC adapters to the ends of the same pipes on the other side. Also, for strength, go over them with a rubberized hammer.
Step 4. Thread plugs without bolts onto one end of the remaining four pipes. On the second - adapters.
Step 5. This will give you support structures for the awning. Using a coupling, these parts are converted into two tall poles for the front of the canopy and two small ones for the rear. You need to drill holes in the top of the assembled parts. You will pass paracord through them when assembling the structure on the beach.
Step 6. To assemble the canopy, you need to spread a tarpaulin or prepared fabric at the installation site.
Step 7. Run paracord through the corners of the tarp, pulling it to the sides.
Step 8. Tie the ends of the rope to the stakes and drive them at an angle into the tarp.
Step 9. Install a long pipe in one of the corners of the front part of the canopy, and a short pipe diagonally. Adjust the tension of the tarp using a string, passing it through the holes in the top of the pipes and through the bolt.
Step 10. Install two more pipes and readjust the paracord. The bolts should pass through the cutouts in the tarp, increasing its tension. Secure the resulting fastening with another nut so that the tarpaulin covering does not fly off during gusts of wind.
A sun canopy for the beach, simple in design, will be appreciated by many vacationers. Unlike an umbrella, it creates a lot of shade; costs less than an umbrella, as it is made from scrap materials; The design itself is light and collapsible, thanks to which it can easily fit into a hiking backpack. How to make such a canopy with your own hands, watch and read the step-by-step instructions.
Materials
To make a sun canopy with your own hands, prepare:
- hand drill;
- rubber hammer;
- inch PVC pipe (4 pcs. 90 cm each and 4 pcs. 60 cm each);
- inch PVC adapter – 8 pcs.;
- inch PVC couplings – 4 pcs.;
- plugs – 8 pcs.;
- 0.5 inch bolts and hex nuts for them - 4 pcs.;
- washers (2 pcs. for each bolt);
- paracord;
- tarpaulin;
- tent pegs.
Step 1. Modify the four plugs. Drill a hole in each for a bolt. Insert the bolt, washers and nut according to the diagram shown in the photo. Tighten the bolt thoroughly.
Step 2. Place the resulting plugs on two long PVC tubes and two shorter ones. To ensure they sit thoroughly, hammer them in with a rubber mallet.
Step 3. Attach PVC adapters to the ends of the same pipes on the other side. Also, for strength, go over them with a rubberized hammer.
Step 4. Thread plugs without bolts onto one end of the remaining four pipes. On the second - adapters.
Step 5. This will give you support structures for the awning. Using a coupling, these parts are converted into two tall poles for the front of the canopy and two small ones for the rear. You need to drill holes in the top of the assembled parts. You will pass paracord through them when assembling the structure on the beach.
Step 6. To assemble the canopy, you need to spread a tarpaulin or prepared fabric at the installation site.
Step 7. Run paracord through the corners of the tarp, pulling it to the sides.
Step 8. Tie the ends of the rope to the stakes and drive them at an angle into the tarp.
Step 9. Install a long pipe in one of the corners of the front part of the canopy, and a short pipe diagonally. Adjust the tension of the tarp using a string, passing it through the holes in the top of the pipes and through the bolt.
Step 10. Install two more pipes and readjust the paracord. The bolts should pass through the cutouts in the tarp, increasing its tension. Secure the resulting fastening with another nut so that the tarpaulin covering does not fly off during gusts of wind.
The canopy is ready!
Awnings are used for many purposes. With their help, they protect the car from rain during the warm season. An awning over the porch makes the house cozy and attractive. Every summer resident dreams of building a tent over a picnic area.
A tarpaulin awning can be assembled in a matter of minutes.
First, let's talk about a do-it-yourself awning for non- experienced builders.
We quickly build simple and reliable awnings
You can make the simplest portable tent from thick fabric in a few hours. Tarpaulin is ideal. Metal rings need to be sewn along the perimeter at a distance of 35-45 cm. The places where the rings are sewn are reinforced with square patches. They are made from thicker fabric. The diameter of the rings can be from 5 to 8 cm. This will allow you to easily attach the mobile tent to the trees. If there are no trees, use wooden stakes 180 cm high. The stakes are tensioned using a rope, like a tent. To prevent the fabric from sagging, a support is installed in the center - a stake 2 m high. Its top must be made smooth so as not to tear the fabric. You can simply wrap the top end with tape or pull the bottom of the peg over the plastic bottle suitable diameter for a tight fit. We also make the center of the fabric compacted.
An original tent from the sun and summer rain is made from two PVC pipes and a regular shower curtain.
A shower curtain awning will provide good protection from rain and sun.
Pipes 6-7 m long should be bent in the form of arches. Two opposite edges of thick oilcloth must be covered with fabric loops. Now the canopy can be pulled over both pipes and the structure can be installed in tension.
Do you want to give the fabric covering of the awning water repellent properties and make your canopy reliable protection from the rain? You can do without buying special fabric, but make it yourself. Choose one of 3 methods:
- Dissolve casein glue (250 g), lime (12 g) in water (750 ml). Make in a separate bowl soap solution– 15 g of laundry soap per 1.5 liters of water. Pour soapy water into the first solution. Soak the fabric and dry completely.
- For cotton or linen fabric take gelatin (125 g), laundry soap(125 g), alum (300 g) and dissolve in 8 liters of water. The mixture is brought to a boil with constant stirring. The fabric is kept in the solution for 2 hours and dried without twisting.
- For 3 liters of water you need to take 100 g baby soap, heat the solution to 50° and soak the fabric in it for half an hour. Then soak the material in a 10% solution of potassium alum twice for 20 minutes. After the first and second immersion, the fabric should be rinsed in cold water and dry at the end.
Each of the impregnation options makes ordinary fabric waterproof.
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Tent for more experienced builders
It is easier than other structures to attach an awning to an existing wall of a house or fence. First of all, we choose a place, prepare the territory and make all the necessary calculations.
Attention! First of all, rely on your strengths; do not take on the complex construction of a stationary awning without experience. You can make a good awning on your own only if you have a detailed drawing.
Many summer residents are interested in how to make a canopy at their dacha, because such a design is an excellent protection against negative weather influences at any time of the year. The canopy is a practical and cost-effective design, which is classified as architectural forms small size.
If we consider a canopy as a construction object, then it is worth mentioning that it is a roof that can have any shape. This structure is placed on supports.
What types of awnings are there?
Depending on the design, country canopies can be classified as follows:
| Freestanding or attached to a country house | The extension of canopies is usually carried out to external wall building, as well as above a balcony, porch or front door. Free-standing structures are located separately |
| Sloping and straight awnings | Single-pitch and double-pitch, and structures complex shape, which are arched, arched, pyramidal, polygonal, dome-shaped, etc. canopies. |
| Decorative or functional products | Decorative designs are real artistic compositions, which often act as elements landscape design and are a real decoration of a summer cottage. Functional structures perform their protective and enclosing functions, while possessing fairly simple and ergonomic shapes |
Note!
For example, a canopy over a car in a country house can serve as a free-standing structure, protecting it from the sun, rain and snow.
Classifying factors
Pictured is a bicycle shed
Exists whole line factors and characteristics by which different canopies can be classified.
These factors include the following:
- Materials used for the manufacture of structural parts. Thus, wooden, metal, stone and combined canopies are distinguished;
- By purpose finished product , because the canopy can be intended for a car, for a recreation area, for a porch, swimming pools, etc.;
- According to size there are large and small structures;
- By location hanging structure.
We are building a canopy for a summer cottage
Advice. It is advisable to make a canopy that matches the style of the main buildings in the dacha, and for the roof of the canopy choose the same materials that cover the dacha itself.
Polycarbonate today is considered the most popular material for the construction of such structures due to its flexibility, which allows you to easily construct canopies of the most unexpected shapes. Originality can be added to the design if we provide for the presence of a forged author's ornament or coat of arms in the decoration.
The main advantage of polycarbonate is its light weight. The thickness and power of the supports directly depends on the weight of the roof itself. And with the help of such an easy roofing material You can easily and quickly build a sun canopy at your dacha with your own hands.
Advice. When you take on the task yourself, remember that the design must be created taking into account parameters such as wind resistance and snow loads.
The angle of inclination of the roof and the thickness of the supporting structure used directly depend on such indicators.
For example, consider the process of constructing the most popular structure - this metal carcass with a polycarbonate roof.
Materials and tools
To work on creating a polycarbonate country canopy, you will need the following basic equipment and materials:
- To cut a sheet of roofing material you will need a circular saw with a round nozzle containing small teeth;
- Electric drill and drills necessary for drilling holes;
- To carry out sealing you will need: perforated tape, aluminum tape and a profile for polycarbonate;
- For fastening: self-tapping screws, thermal washers, screwdriver or drill;
- The profile is detachable or one-piece, for connecting polycarbonate sheets to each other.
After you decide on the shape, you should consider what will act as load-bearing elements.
It can be:
- Wooden beam;
- Reinforced pipe;
- Metal corner;
- Brick pillars.
Manufacturing jobs
The instructions, which stipulate the stages of work in order to independently construct country sheds, consist of the following set of actions:
- Marking the territory for development;
- Construction of a building foundation: laying bricks, pouring concrete into a monolith removable formwork etc.; (See also article.)
- Installation of supporting structure;
- Installation of roofing sheathing, taking into account the final covering and load;
- Roof sheathing coating protective compounds. The choice of product directly depends on the material from which this sheathing is made;
- Arrangement of roofing;
- Arrangement of finishing covering for the floor under the canopy.
Advice. Do not forget that the floor, whether it is wood, stone or living grass, must have a certain slope to ensure water drainage.
Finally
Canopy on summer cottage an absolutely necessary thing. You can spend time under such a structure on hot summer days, hiding from direct sunlight. sun rays, listen to music, receive guests or spend romantic evenings. If you make a canopy for your own car, you will be able to reliably protect it from all kinds of weather phenomena for the entire period of your stay at the dacha.
And also such a structure, built with your own hands, is a real reason for pride and an opportunity to save money, since the price of the product will not include installation work. The video in this article will tell you even more about what canopies can be country houses, and will reveal some editing secrets.
Today you can buy tourist tents the most different forms and sizes, but you can sew it yourself. And the point is not that it will be half the price, but that you can sew an awning to suit your needs and do exactly what you need. Well, I just like to do everything myself, because the process itself is interesting. And today we will talk about how to sew camping awning with your own hands.
The first thing you need is to find a suitable fabric. In small towns this can be a serious problem. You don't often find travel fabrics in stores. I had a hard time finding green, as I was told, “tent fabric” without a name. Most likely it was an Oxford. Price 75 rub. behind linear meter was more than attractive and I bought 8 meters. Fabric width 1.5 meters. If you sew two pieces of 4 meters each, it will work out just fine awning 3x4 meters, which is what I need.
Please note that in stores the fabric is often not cut, but rather torn from the roll along the fibers. But the weaving of the threads in the cut does not correspond to the parallel-perpendicular axes of the roll. This way, the torn edge of the fabric will not be perpendicular to the side of the cut. And, if you need the exact geometry of the product in finished form, take the fabric with a margin of at least half a meter and cut it strictly at right angles.
I cut my piece of fabric in half. Along the edges there is a strip with punctures and deformation of the fabric, which remains during production. All this needs to be cut off, at least from those sides that will be sewn together in the middle of the awning. If the fabric has a front side, then we fold the two pieces face to face. The bottom layer should protrude 5-6 millimeters from the top.
We wrap these 5 millimeters up and stitch them on a typewriter.
Then upper layer bend it towards the seam, as if unrolling an awning. And we sew so that the line goes along the edge of the wrapped strip, retreating 2-3 mm from it. For convenience, you can turn the awning over and sew from the wrong side.
The seam must be treated with some kind of impregnation so that it does not allow water to pass through. There are different recipes for self-breeding, or you can use store-bought products.
Now you need to process the perimeter of the awning. We turn the fabric from the front side to the wrong side by 5 millimeters, then stitch it again in exactly the same way.
To make it easier and faster to install the awning, I decided to sew loops around the perimeter. I don't like eyelets in this regard. Over time, they tear out under good load. The places where the hinges are attached need to be strengthened. To do this, I cut 6x6 cm squares from thick leatherette and sewed them into places under the loops.
Then I cut identical pieces of tape used to hem the trousers, folded them and ironed them a little to fix the shape. All that remains is to sew the loops onto the squares around the perimeter of the awning.
That's basically it. The tent is ready and you can try it out on your next trip.
The tent turned out to be approximately 1.4 kg. weight, which is quite comparable to some store models. 600 rubles spent. with a little (2015). Time-wise - several hours of cutting and sewing. The result, I think, is very good, except that I would like to make the weight a little less.
An awning with this arrangement of loops can be easily installed