Sandbox with lid-bench with your own hands
The contents
Supporting the idea of developing a healthy holiday for the smallest members of the family became so popular that often one or two kids are made whole playgrounds. If time and money is not as much as necessary, it is possible to confine an extremely useful and versatile sandpit with bench and lid. If you wish, the result will appear in any case.
According to the tradition the most interesting projects for children are built in our country the old fashioned way, from wood. Even intricate version of the sandbox – transformer with cover shop. Design with a bench convenient for parents. Children arrive at his own discretion, and sit on the bench and on the lid.
What you need to build for innocent childhood fun sand is not turned into headache for parents or educators:
- For a child’s sandbox cover is essential, especially if the design is near the house, trees or when a large number of domestic birds and animals;
- Use the highest quality sand, with regular cleansing and replacement of the contents of the sandbox;
- Very sandbox must be equipped with benches, better with their hands.
- Children’s sandbox should not be a monument, but it should be reliable, childish pranks should not disrupt the bench or tear the cover.
It all depends on the availability of material and imagination. For example, a miniature log cabin from logs, stumps – benches, be sure to suit the tastes of the children, moreover, it is the most durable and safe design. Cover can be made from plywood.
When you drop the baby on Board or angle of the structure sloped surface does not pose a threat to health. The current design of the bench will be less to interfere with play. Often the adjacent surface of the poured a thin layer of sand or plated ornamental lawn kind of grass.
Allowed, and large «monumental» boxes for many of the kids. The advantages of such designs include simplicity, large space for whole group.
Building a sandbox with a cover and two benches ↑
If there is at least a small carpentry practice, it is possible to rent a jigsaw and sander, buy pine boards, screws and choose the design of the sandbox a simple square shape with hinged lid-bench.
The beauty of a similar design:
- Light cover folds sandbox recline with very little effort, therefore, to open and close them even for a 6-7летним guys;
- Fold the sandbox is easily converted into the backrest, which adds comfort;
- The construction is easy to repair and upgrade if necessary.
Wean children from the habit to climb up on any available surface is practically impossible, and to withstand the weight of the baby folding cover option may not always.
Special difficulties in the manufacture of roof-monosite does not happen, but to remove it from the sandbox and set it back only to adults.
Step one – collect and process box primer ↑
Cut to length and polished by machine Board processing primer can pentaftalevyh varnish or just varnish. Lacquer usually requires several layers and thorough drying.
Joined with short bars and wood screws installing corner braces at the top and bottom of the boards. Thus, a durable and reliable connection. Turning fasteners with a screwdriver or a drill, be sure to check that heads of fasteners included in a tree flush and could not scratch hands.
Step two – make the sash and benches ↑
The roof consists of two wings, each of which is made of two parts – moving and fixed. Fixed, composed of two planks, sewed to the box with screws. This is the basis of cover and benches.
Next, you need a movable part of the sash – benches connect with still. To do this, put it next to the box and «surubim» pre-purchased sheds. Watch to connecting halves was a small gap of a few millimeters, ensuring the normal rotation of the cover folds. The result is a folding accordion, are easily transformed into a bench.
Known addiction kids jump on the lid, Pay special attention to the strength of the cover and benches, strengthening its additional spacers. This bench can easily withstand the weight of adults or three kids.
Children’s sandbox in place ↑
The question is, where should be a children’s sandbox is very important for the health of babies. Sometimes kids just give up the game due to uncomfortable conditions. Do not have to open both benches. Half cover might be a wonderful game stand.
It is necessary to consider several conditions:
- For normal state of health in the summer children’s sandbox should be purged is small, a tiny breeze, but not cold draught;
- Ideally, the sand in the children’s sandbox should have a good warm up, from morning to midday heat, you must open the lid, this will free him from the night’s condensation and heat to an acceptable temperature;
- Close to the Playground should not be tall trees and dense thickets that can serve as a refuge for insects, in these cases, the cover will only serve external protection;
- Better if a children’s Playground and sandpit removed from the road and shielded from prying eyes, and are not in the path of the rainwater.
- The bench will allow you to delay things or toys and not lose them.
Put the design on the ground ↑
If the design of a child’s sandbox has a canopy or elevated above ground benches, the installation should provide additional bracing for stability. This will help not to overturn the sandbox, if on the bench sits an adult.
For the installation of such sandbox rip small bayonet spade, ditch, and after the installation of the box it level and poured the ground with a small podrabotkoj of soil along the perimeter of the sandbox. Please note that the bench were recorded with a force and she could not arise and injure the child.
In the network there are many different positions on the need for extra floor in the children’s sandbox. The main argument of the proponents is the need to prevent the germination of various grasses and weeds whose seeds will be inside, sometimes the presence of bottom motivate additional protection from dampness and contamination of the sand.
Installation bottom is considered mandatory if the soil moist, and the height of the sides of a child’s sandbox does not provide the sand necessary for reliable waterproofing. One of the most practical options for bottoms sandbox is a pair of the usual tourist mats.
Final procedure – fill a sandbox with sand ↑
The filling of the box sandbox sand is not is to die and fall of the entire mass inside, and so the matter is finished. Any sand, river, from the pit, or a secondary product, packaged in bags, requires sifting, washing and disinfection. For sifting often use the old building tools – old metal bed mesh. At the time of loading the cover and the bench can be covered with fabric.
Flushing should be performed before the beginning of each spring-summer season. You can use tap or rain water covered sand to spread out the canvas and the Bay rainwater. After washing the sand to lie in the sun at least 6 hours for drying, complete decontamination from pathogenic microflora. Don’t forget to wash the lid and the bench, they also need care.
To summarize ↑
Wooden sandbox with lid and benches become almost standard among enthusiasts proposed the construction of children’s playgrounds for more than half of the cases have the design of the sandpit with folding benches.
The schematic of a children’s sandbox with bench and cover can last a dozen years, provided care, regular cleaning and disinfection. The cover will keep the dirt and leaves and even heavy rains. For wintering this sandbox is enough to close it tight film.