Covering the shaft

We all know that the shafts in our outdoor house area are necessary. Electrical, drainage, sewage, plumbing, etc. All of these things need sooner or later a shaft. When the direction is changing, when there is a 90 degrees angle or just simply for accessing the channel for maintenance. And there is a good way in the house yard with which upper cover can we hide this shaft as much as we can. It is a sort of INOX cover (made from stainless steel). We usually get them in most often dimensions: 30x30 cm, 40x40 cm, 50x50 cm, 60x60 cm and 80x80 cm (and also others). With those dimensions we can usually cover mostly all of the shafts.

The best thing of these covers is that the aesthetics is not corrupted. If it is well installed you can barely see the cover. We use these kind of covers usually when we are laying the concrete bricks or plates but can be also used when laying other materials.

Chech lower pictures for a better understanding (these house yard was made approx. 3 months ago):

A cover is installed (layed on a concrete) and we also fill the inner part with a concrete. Along the sides of a cover we cut the bricks so they fit to the cover.

We start to lay down the inner bricks

Almost finished

All the bricks are layed now.

Grouting...

Done! There is a cover on this yard. Can anyone find it? =)

Ok, you've probably find it. But still, pretty good looking isn't it?

In this case we couldn't install the cover in the same direction that the bricks are layed down because of the shaft. But that really isn't such a bad thing. All you have to be carefull is that you use a strong concrete in the cover so it can be driven over a car (or something bigger =D ).

Have a great day! ;)