Varieties and options for gratings on the windows. The purpose of the grate on the windows, the features of its manufacture. Tips and recommendations for making gratings with your own hands

In order to protect their own housing from ill -wishers, people are increasingly using window grilles. This metal device performs not only the protective function, but also perfectly decorates any window outside. You can not only buy bars on the windows, but also do it with your own hands, approaching work creatively. How to do this and what will be needed for this, we will consider in more detail later.

Table of contents:

1. Methods for making gratings with your own hands
2. The main varieties of structures
3. Features of simple and sliding grilles
4. Tools and equipment necessary for the production of gratings on windows with your own hands
5. Preparatory work
6. Tips for specialists in making gratings on windows with your own hands
7. With your own outer metal frame with your own hands
8. Features of manufacture
9. A grate in a metal frame with curly elements with your own hands

Methods for making gratings with your own hands

You can choose a large number of diverse models of the sieves that the modern market rich in a window of any size and shapes. In the manufacture of these security structures, several methods are used that are split in cost and equipment.

So, in the manufacture of gratings with your own hands, you can use two ways:

1. Welding.

2. Forging.

The first method is the so -called budget option. Welded models can be diversified by geometric shapes or use round motifs.

The second method has established itself as a more durable and reliable. In addition, forged details are always more expensive than welded. Such models represent a huge assortment. Forged lattices can be made with the display of any ornament and individual wishes.

The main varieties of structures

No matter how the window grilles complement the exterior of the house, nevertheless their main purpose is to protect property from attackers. It is customary to separate window structures according to two criteria: by type of fastening and by the opening method.

By type of fastening, window grilles are divided into stationary and removable. The first option is considered more reliable, since such devices are attached directly to the window opening, and not in the walls, which provides the longest ministry and the minimum chances that the grate is deformed or falls out. The second species is characterized by its unreliability and the probability of quick curvatures.

The second criterion according to which the main varieties of structures of window grates will be distinguished is the opening method. They can be characterized as follows.

When installing window grilles, it is important that they not only protect the house or store, but also have accessibility, mobility and simplicity of operation.

Features of simple and sliding grilles

The most popular in use are sliding grilles. They consider more reliable. Unlike simple (deaf) designs, sliding are absolutely safe, according to fire norms. Sliding grilles for windows have a lot of pluses:

• along with swing structures are universal in operation;
• in the case of a fire, the windows on which sliding grilles are installed can be used as an additional emergency exit;
• sliding grilles are easily lend itself to design design and harmoniously fit into any exterior of a residential or commercial facility;
• have compact dimensions compared to other window structures;
• unlike other species, swing grilles are installed indoors for safety;
• due to the sliding mechanism of this type of structure in the open state, they occupy a minimum of space;
• absolutely do not disrupt the functionality of the window structure.

Tools and equipment necessary for the production of gratings on windows with your own hands

With your own hands, the production of gratings on windows is actually possible without using special tools. To work with metal, the master needs to equip his workplace. The workshop will need a table with a countertop and goats. To fix the metal material you will need a vice. Also, the number of necessary tools include:

• welding machine;
• bulgarian;
• punch;
• mountains (for working with hot metal);
• blacksmithing forceps;
• metal bending machine;
• an anvil and a hammer;
• spanners;
• roulette;
• files and a metal brush;
• eskaric paper, etc.

High universality when working with metal is characterized by a welding machine, without which it is impossible to make the lattices.

For cutting a metal sheet and reinforcement, you will need a grinder, which can also be performed by cleansing work from rust. For hot forging metal, a mountain is necessary, with which you can warm up the material and make forged figures-decorations for gratings. In order for the lattices to not lose their presentability and expensive appearance, you will need a machine for bending metal rods to work.

At the final stage, you will need brushes for priming and painting the gratings, as well as the primer itself and the paint for metal.

Preparatory work

Before starting work with the material, you need to remove the measurements from the window and make a sketch of the future lattice. It is important to consider all the nuances: the model of the grille (sliding, deaf or intense), the castle version, etc. Drawings should be performed on a scale in order to exclude any flaws and, as a result, do not get a curve structure.

It is worth paying attention to the construction of the building, for which metal fences are supposed to take into account the rules of fire safety.

Only after the sketch is finally created and all amendments are made can be calculated the required amount of consumables, as well as how much decorative, shut -off parts and hinged loops will be. At the stage of preparatory work, it is better to consult with professionals, or get acquainted with some advice of specialists in making gratings on the windows with your own hands.

Tips for specialists in making gratings on windows with your own hands

Tip 1. To make the lattices even, it is recommended to use a sufficient number of stiffeners, which should have horizontal and vertical elements.

Tip 2. Welded work must be performed according to the sketch and always on a flat surface.

Tip 3. If the master plans to make a sliding grill, then he will need special rivets and wheels to create hinged nodes.

Tip 4. When the design is intended for attaching to the wall around the opening, it is better to mark the boundaries of its location with chalk, and only then remove all the necessary measurements.

With your own outer metal frame with your own hands

The easiest, in terms of manufacturing, a design of a window fence is a design without an external metal frame. In addition, it is also called the most budgetary. This type of lattice usually speaks of simply, but with taste. First you need to measure the window for which the workpiece is intended, and accordingly make a sketch. For design without framing, you will need steel stripes and reinforcing rods. Such lattices in most cases are installed on wooden windows. We learn more about the features of installation and installation of grilles without an external metal frame with our own hands.

Features of manufacture

In the process of working on a lattice without an external frame, you will need:

• metal strip;
• smooth reinforcement;
• threaded hairpin;
• roulette;
• clamps;
• gas key;
• construction mittens;
• punch and metal drill;
• welding machine;
• iron brush, etc.

For a high -quality final result, it is best to perform work in stages. At the first stage, metal stripes of the desired length are cut, which will become the horizontal base of the grill. The stripes are reliably clamped with clamps and turn 90 degrees. It is important that all the bends on the metal stripes are the same and proportional, since in the future they will be used as a site for fastening.

At the second stage, slaves with metal stripes are drilled with a perforator of holes, it is important that they are located at the same distance from each other. Prepared holes are intended for reinforcing bars.

The third stage can be called welding. After the workpiece is assembled, reinforcing bars on a non -combustible surface are inserted by connecting, welding work. It is worth paying attention to the fact that welding should not be point, but a continuous seam. Threaded studs are welded to the bent edges of the metal strips, on which the nut is wound.

The fourth stage is the processing of a metal structure against corrosion. With an iron brush, all possible rust is removed. The finished product is covered with a primer, it is well dried and only then it is opened with paint for metal.

The fifth stage is the last, consisting in the installation of the grilles without an external metal frame to the expected place.

A grate in a metal frame with curly elements with your own hands

The advanced species have grilles in a metal frame with curly elements, which can also be made with your own hands. Such designs are often installed in private mansions, in apartments of high -rise buildings, etc. To make this type of window structure is much more difficult than the previous option. In addition to working with welding, the locksmith skills are needed.

The process of making a grate on the windows with your own hands requires the presence of the following tools and materials:

• reinforcing rods;
• profile metal pipe;
• bulgarian;
• welding machine;
• roulette;
• forceps, hammer, etc.

The complexity of these designs is the manufacture of curly elements that must be done strictly according to the sketch. A metal ornament is made from reinforcing rods of various shapes (round, square, etc.). In order for all the details to be proportional, it is very important to correctly remove the measurements from the window and carefully display them in the sketch, which is best done on a scale of 1:10.

A profile pipe is used for a metal frame. It is cut at an angle, cleaned and connected by welding. The quality of the gratings depends on the quality of welding work, namely on the set sutures.

Reinforcing crossbars are placed in the frame, on which figured elements according to the drawing will be placed according to the sketch. For the production of the ornament for the grilles, the metal must be well heated. Typically, for this purpose, stoves and mountains are used, at home the material can be heated simply on open fire. As a holder, special forceps are used. This type of work is best done by dressing building gloves.

Initially, finished forged parts are interconnected by point welding, after which they check the level and correct assembly. Next, all elements are boiled by applying a continuous seam. The finished ornament is welded to the inside of the frame.

Depending on what ornament is chosen by the master, the type of connection of curly elements depends. They are connected not only with welding, but in two other ways. This is the first mount using scobes, the second with rivets. In a finished form of this type of fastening, they look like curly elements of a window grill. The metal product can be opened with paint immediately after assembly, or even after the grate is installed in the window opening.

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