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 camping 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 pieces of 90 cm and 4 pieces of 60 cm);
- 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 is how you can do it 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. At the top assembled parts you need to drill holes. 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!
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 a 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 folded 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. Eat 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
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 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.
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 a small architectural form.
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 buildings, 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
There are a number of factors and characteristics by which different awnings 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;
- According to the purpose of the 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 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: brick laying, pouring concrete into a monolith with removable formwork, etc.; (See also article.)
- Installation of supporting structure;
- Installation of roof 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 finishing coating for floors under a 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
A canopy on a summer cottage is absolutely necessary. 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.
