Senior technical editor Mark Powers demonstrates how to assemble a bench between two planters made from stacked cedar boards. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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How to Build a Cedar Bench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg-QHu29W4w&list=PLkJADc1qDrr_0NxtmzECiOWkr5de82kXV&index=240
How to Make a Concrete Planter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DgWAysEICg&list=PLkJADc1qDrr_0NxtmzECiOWkr5de82kXV&index=308
How to Plant a Raised Garden Bed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzuuavHTq6c&list=PLkJADc1qDrr_0NxtmzECiOWkr5de82kXV&index=315
Shopping List for How to Build a Planter Bench:
– cedar 2×4s. Get twenty 8-foot boards to make the 16[FRACTION 12]-inch planter pieces and the 82 1/2-inch-long seat frame.
– cedar 1 1/4×6s. Get four 6-foot boards to make the 63-inch-long seat, and one 8-foot board to trim the tall planter.
– 3/4-inch gravel, for drainage below the planters and to fill the assembled planters. Get at least 1 1/2 cubic feet (three bags).
– potting soil, to top off the planters filled with gravel. Get four 32-quart bags.
– construction adhesive. Get 4 tubes.
– 3-inch stainless-steel deck screws
– 2-inch stainless-steel deck screws
– 3-inch galvanized siding nails
– 12-inch galvanized spikes Get eight
Tools for How to Build a Planter Bench:
– 4-foot level
– miter saw
– circular saw
– jigsaw
– Speed Square
– drill/driver fitted with a 3/8-inch paddle bit
– garden spade
– hammer
– hand tamper
– caulk gun
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Go to woodprix webpage if you'd like to know how to build it. Good solutions for everyone I think
Go to woodprix if you'd like to build it yourself.
I made it too. Want to know how ? just go to woodprix webpage.
Im sure you can build it too guys. Just look for woodprix page
I can make it myself. Just got instructions from woodprix website and I'm ready for do it 😀
Hi. If you want to build it yourself just google for 'woodprix' . I know you'll find good solutions for your idea.
I am sure that you will find good way to make it on woodprix Webpage.
Nice movie. However you can make it yourself. Just google woodprix and learn how to do it easily.
Im sure you can build it too guys. Just look for woodprix page
This is incomplete. You didn't show you added additional stringers to the tall planter. You screw the long boards on the left but how is that possible since you didn't put boards underneath!!!
You should go to woodprix if you'd like to make it yourself guys.
It is very expensive for the MAKE A FLOWERPOT
Hi. At 2.33 minutes, you say "Add an additional stringer", but it's not quite clear where you are attaching it. can you clarify please. Thanks!
Neat project, but mighty spendy–cedar ain't cheap. Oh well, the price of quality.
I wouldn't put that second plant space on the lower part. I would just make the only part with plants the elevated part
It's January, wouldn't a hockey rink project be more fitting ?
Wow, it only took 3 minutes to build…
Shouldn't you use a pressure treated lumber for the first 2 courses?
Cool