Garden Wooden Bridges add a rustic charm to your garden

Planning to beautify the open garden space overlooking your house? You have already got the garden layout and sketch ready. Well, with just the right patch of greenery including a fresh green grass patch, trees on the garden border and a wide variety of potted plants, all you require is a garden bridge over the stream or pond which your garden already contains.

Good quality and well done Garden wooden bridges do accentuate the overall appearance of the garden as well as the house. With a couple of varieties of Garden wooden bridges available in the market, you could easily decide upon what would go best with your garden décor.

Garden wooden bridges are available in different shapes and designs, popular ones being arched bridges, base bridges, rope bridges and spindle bridges. Arched bridges are the basic and most popular. Arched bridges do contain a slightly arched plank with railings at the side. The railings do have a multipurpose task to perform, giving a design to the entire structure; they provide support and also prevent the children from slipping down from the bridge in case they walk too much near the edge of the bride.

Whilst ordering a wood bridge you are required to give great attention to it beginning with -

The size of the bridge - Most of the bridges readily available in the market come in sizes 4' 11", 5' 11", 6' 11", 8' 6" and 9' 10". However if you have any special requirement you could always place an order for the same.

The quality of the wood - Ideally wood used for making garden bridges should be treated and durable enough to withstand rough and harsh weather conditions. In most cased pressure treated or tanalised wood in used. Popular shades of tanalised wood include brown colour and natural brown colour. The best part of the tanalised wood is that it does not require much care, maintenance or even painting. Painting tanalised wood however increases the lifespan of the bridge.

The quality of the metal components - The metal components used in fixing and installing the garden bridge should not rust or corrode quickly, apart from being of extremely good quality. This ensures that bridge will function well and last for quite a life time.

The Installation procedure - You need to know the exact layout and preparatory base required before you even order the bridge for your garden. Well, you will be requiring a professional or an extremely competent person to install the bridge for you. In case you are planning to prepare the foundation, you should make sure that you make the foundation 10 cm wider on each side.

On the overall, you do need to go for a good quality, durable and garden bridges. With the garden bridge installed and ready, you could always go about highlighting your garden bridge with plants and lamp posts too. Also the space below the bride - lake or pond should contain attractive and eye catching plants for the accentuating the garden bridge in a special manner.

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