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Gabion for Garden

Jul 25 2020
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Several kinds of gabions and cages can be used for your garden decoration, the most popular one would be PVC coated and galvanized steel cage due to their long-lasting feature. At the same time, they are also good performers in term of aesthetic and resistant to multiple conditions such as raining, ultraviolet (UV) from sunlight, dust, dirt, chemical, a scratch from birds and more. However, the cage of gabions must be calculated properly from its wire thickness that is measured in diameter since it is indirectly affecting the strength of overall to hold the loads imposed by the infilling materials. Since the infill materials such as rock, stone, concrete, sand and soil are all heavy in weight, the strength integrity must be there to prevent unnecessary occurrence of any potential incidents.

Gabion cage has also another specification point must be paid with attention, which is the distance between wire gap, because if your infilling components have a chance smaller than the gap, the materials will also fall down that after causing unwanted risks. Even without the danger, the falling down of smaller-sized stone will also make the gabion cage loosen up and not nice to be viewed externally. Gabion cage is a wonderful protective layer to whatever material you wish to enclose it but at the same time, displaying it for garden visitors or family members to enjoy their activities at your house. PVC coated and galvanized cages for those gabions also decide the useful life of the garden decoration when it is being compared to untreated gabion surfaces.
Owners can change the gabions according to the garden concept, for instance, some owners might have a larger space of garden that even surround their bungalow. In this case, the gabions length can be extended and cover every single corner of the outdoor space for the house at their edges. the height can be adjusted too. The height estimation shall always refer to the original wall or fence of your house, although gabions can be applied as a retaining wall for your safety and privacy purpose too. When gabions are being put up as retaining wall, its specification for the wire including wire gap, wire diameter, wire coating, wire material and the size to be fitted nicely with the stone or rock. However, there are more than what we discussed here to make sure the safety of the mattress for this protective wall.

Garden types can also be categorized by its plants, from vegetable, flower, butterfly to mixed of one or more. Various gardens can make gabions theme to be unique too as in contemporary garden might want to have some garden that is more modern instead of old-school looking while classical England authentic garden that emphasizes on the traditional floor, wall and hardscape materials will be more right to use gabions that can be matchable with flower colours and species in the garden of overall. Nevertheless, tropical or subtropical gardens are very common in countries such as Malaysia which has its place right in the equatorial region of Asia just like Indonesia. Gabion design for these gardens must be comparative to plants based there, where the fountain and other furnitures are also key in determining the concept.
As we can see during a visit to a public park in your community or some tourist places, there are some gabions that nice to be coupled with fountain, chair, a historical statue, monument, memorial structure and more. In fact, for all commercial, residential or industrial types of buildings can put gabions to your designs too. For instance, you can be organizing a barbeque (BBQ) party at your premise and the gabions cage can be fabricated with a cylindrical shape. The cage will be then filled up with stone, rock, soil and decorative products, the colourful base is later topped up with your grilling equipment. Just like olden days, the stone in the cage can act as the support for firewood to burn and the gabion materials with high tensile wire mesh are definitely resistant to water, fire, heat, oil, stain, food chemicals, detergent and more.

At the meantime, other gardening setups such as combining with fountain or waterfall make another awesome feature to your garden too. High-rise condominium or serviced residence will be installing this as their common recreational area for their tenants too, imagine how wonderful it would be in those shared space with the natural stone caged by gabion, together with flora that is diverse in species as well as colours. While office tower will also put similar concept at the certain floor where occupants can enjoy their break time, morning walk, lunch or evening talk, including meeting casually at these community built-up level. Nowadays, shopping mall landed or multi-storey properties including industrial parks will include more and more green space, the gabion is without doubt one of the leading specified material for architects to include in their lists.
Garden Gabion


Park Gabion

Garden Stoned Cage

Gabion for Wall

Fence Gabion

Gabion Fountain

Retaining Wall



Types of Gabion


PVC Coated

Galvanized

Hot Dipped Galvanized (HDG)

Wire Mesh Cage

Customized Gabion Cage

Protective Gabion Wall



Explore today for your Gabion for Garden, Protective and Wall Decoration in Malaysia.