A useful hand-craft - a broom from a plastic bottle with your own hands
How can I use conventional plasticbottles? They serve not only to store liquid drinks in them, sometimes we make artifacts from plastic bottles that are useful in everyday life. The needlewomen and needlewomen never miss a chance to turn an unnecessary object into a practical and necessary thing in the household. One of these useful products is a broom from a plastic bottle, created by oneself.
Useful home-made in everyday life
Why do you need such homemadebroom? Naturally, to clean rooms such a broom will not be useful, as it can not qualitatively collect fine dust or crumbs. But it will be very useful in the garage, in the country, in the yard. Most often such a broom is used to clean large debris. It is convenient to sweep dry leaves in the autumn period.
What you need to make brooms from plastic bottles
The first thing we will do is prepare everything that can be useful to us in our work.
The main material is about 6 plasticbottles. Depending on how splendid you plan to do the sweep, you can take more or less. Some are satisfied with a broom from four bottles, and others need eight. Usually two-liter or one-and-a-half-liter plastic containers are used: the larger the liter, the longer the broom will have the bars.
To make a handle, you can take a woodensmooth stick or use a plastic tube. The length of the holder is determined at its discretion, but its thickness is better to do so that it corresponds to the diameter of the neck of the bottle.
Also, a dense rope may be useful, for example, twine or twine.
You should take care of the tools that you might need in your work. They will be easy to find in any home. These are sharp big scissors, awl, nails and a hammer.
How is the broom made from a plastic bottle?
With your hands, such a thing is easy to make. It seems that even a child can cope with this task. So, we have already prepared everything necessary, now let's find out how the broom is made from a plastic bottle with their own hands.
- Sharp scissors cut off the bottom of each prepared container.
- The whole lateral surface to the point of narrowing is cut into strips 1-2 cm wide. The rigidity and elasticity of the broom will depend on their thickness.
- Now it's time to cut the neck of all bottles, except for two.
- We take one billet with a neck and put on it all the other plastic "skirts". Last we attach the second bottle with a neck.
- The next stage we crush our broom to make it flat.
- Shilom make several holes and stretch through them a rope so that the broom does not break up. Instead of twine, you can use a flexible wire.
- We got an almost finished broom. But now there is nothing to take. Two neck from the inner and outer bottles - this is what will be fixed on the handle.
- We pass the holder and fix it with several nails. Try to fix as secure as possible, so that the broom does not hang during operation.
As a result, we got a wonderful broom from a plastic bottle. With your hands, you can do this thing in 20-30 minutes.
The disadvantage of this product is its shortlife time. With intensive use, the broom quickly softens and becomes ineffective. But it's not so scary, given the simplicity of its production and the availability of materials.
Other useful articles from plastic bottles
A plastic bottle can be easily discarded, many do so, but you just want to, and this unnecessary thing turns into a useful thing.
Most often plastic containers of different volumesare used in gardening. Florists use them as flowerpots for plants. Vegetables grow seedlings in half-liter bottles cut half. They can save the trunk of young trees from attacks of wild animals and cover cuttings for rooting growth. It is easy and simple to make a kind of lampshade, which protects the lamps from the outside of the room from the rain. If you pierce a plastic bottle in several places with an awl and put it on the watering hose, it will serve as an excellent sprayer when watering.
Using imagination and ingenuity, you can definitely find the original application for a plastic bottle.
