Country street washbasin - design features

The use of a plot outside the city limits not only for recreation, but also for obtaining environmentally friendly products, expands its functionality. In addition, work in the garden for many becomes a way to manifest their hidden abilities. In any case, there must be free access to water at the dacha, so today you will learn how to make a street sink to give your own hands, as well as other useful information about it.

Manufacturers of products for country sites have taken care of this and offer various options for washstands that can be installed not only in the house, but also on the street. We will definitely talk about some of them below. In addition, you will be offered the design of the washstand, which you can make yourself actually from scrap objects and tools.

Features of a country washstand

Before we begin to choose a ready-made washstand or make it yourself, you need to understand that a slightly different model is needed in the open air than if we were talking about a city apartment. Here, everything is completely different from what you can imagine in the greenhouse conditions of a megacity.

Your sink will have to perform many functions, sometimes about which in the city and did not think.

Here are some of them:

• wash hands of dirt and soil, which is stuck after working on the beds. In this case, it is necessary to revise the waste system;
• quick rinsing of berries, fruits, and vegetables just picked from a shrub, bed or tree;
• washing dishes, which remains from evening gatherings around the fire. Note that dirty water should also be diverted in a special way so as not to “poison” the area.

There are other tasks for this device, so we recommend that you take its choice with all responsibility. In this case, he will serve a long time, and will fully meet the tasks assigned to him.

Types of sinks

As mentioned above, manufacturers offer a fairly wide range of washbasins that can fully satisfy the request of any summer resident.

Usually the choice stops on “three pillars”:

• what volume of the filler tank;
• the appearance of the device;
• product price.

Let us consider in more detail what kind of wash basin we can purchase or do on our own:

Washstands

Another way to get in the country the opportunity to use water. It should be recognized that not all gardeners prefer washbasins because of their bulkiness and stationarity.

In contrast, washstands can be quickly installed in one place and then also quickly transferred to another. Very often they have no shell, i.e. water just pours on the ground.

On sale you can find various modifications of such devices. You can choose a difficult option or limit the simplest. Their cost will mainly depend on it.

They can be from:

• stainless steel;
• plastic.

Volume - up to 17 liters, with a water heating unit up to 60-70? С and without, with a valve or pressure valve.

There is also the most common option that each of us has ever seen in his life, and maybe he used it. It is a cast-iron or plastic rounded tank, in which there is a so-called pressure cock below.

In order for the water to flow, you need to lift it up and then the valve holding it will open. The device can be mounted anywhere - on a tree, fence, greenhouse. With it, you can quickly wash your hands, the cost of such a washstand is the lowest.

From portable washbasins, you can select the structure on the rack, on which the water tank (up to 15 liters) with a faucet is mounted. You can serve it there permanently or just pour a bucket.

It is possible to fix the construction on the ground with the help of racks and crossbars between them. When you push it, the device is rigidly fixed on the ground.

Tip: for quick and easy entry into the ground, the ends of the rack should be cut at an angle.

You can use a single pipe, but we recommend the design to make two. The distance between them is about 300 mm. It is best to fix the parts with a welding machine.

We make a washstand by yourself

If you have interruptions in the water supply in the country, you will definitely need such a simple device. You will be able to wash your hands after working on the ground, and the dishes, and fruits, and vegetables.

Advice: it is best to rely on the construction for the street at once, since there is hardly any free space for country houses in it.

Choose a place under a canopy or build it from the material at hand. You can make it so big that a table can fit under it, then the place will turn into a kind of summer living room for meals. Washbasin in this case will have just the way.

Tip: if you make a portable structure, then for a cold period it can be brought into the room to increase the life of the product.

Process

Before you get to work, arm yourself with a tape measure, a pencil and paper. Imagine what kind of wash basin you would like to have - tank volume, bedside table, doors or not, mirror, additional shelves.

Thereafter:

• make a general drawing, and then for each part separate;
• select material;

Tip: a mirror is better to buy a new one than to cut it out of the old.

• prepare the tool;
• make according to the drawings all the details;
• attach a mirror to glue or use staples;
• decide you should buy a heater;
• use the drain or bucket under the sink to drain.

Conclusion

Any place can be turned into a comfortable place, if you approach this sensibly. Even a suburban area to which you leave less often with the help of an ordinary washbasin will become one where you can spend time with amenities similar to those in the city.

It remains only to choose the right place for its installation and material. The video in this article will provide an opportunity to find additional information on the above topic.