New Year New Projects

Hi all.
Its been a long wet winter so not a lot going on in the garden with pallets.

I do hope the interim facebook posts have been of use, I'll continue to post these now and again, if I see anything if use.

However, the weather is turning for the better, so its back out when the opportunity arises. As it turns out I've already started on the first project of the year - a garden planter.

Keep an eye out for the garden planter post to read about it.

Keep posting those pallet project to the Facebook page....

So now the weather has changed

Firstly a big hello to all the people who have liked the page, and to those who are new to the page, a big thanks from me.

I must admit it did catch me by surprise in how many people have liked the page and recently we also had a big increase.

Not sure where you've all seen the page from, it would be good to hear where you or how you found the page. Just leave a message in the comments box :-)

Anyway, the weather now seems to have well and truly changed here in the UK. Rain and cold weather isn't usually very good for pallet work, and this is also the first winter for the children's playhouse I've built. So far so good though, all the rain seems to have stayed on the outside, which is always good, so now let's see what else gets thrown at it.

Throughout the winter, rather than leave the page lie dormant, I'll  post links to ideas ready for next year, so please let me know the sort of thing you'd like to see.  I'm thinking pallet projects and ideas as well as garden ideas, but please leave a comment if you'd like to see anything else.

Look forward to hearing from you, and as always, please feel free to share the page, as well as any pictures of what.you've been up to.

Thanks again for following the page.

Bryan

Children's Playhouse - Day 9

OK, so work had been continuing, despite the lack of updates on the playhouse.

The exterior us just about finished, with just some sort of window shuttering to do.  My wife and u settled in not having a door, but we may revisit this decision at a later date.

The outside had been painted (with the assistance from three little ones 8, 5 and 2) a brown colour which to our surprise, has belnded the whole thing into an almost invisible structure - quite a feat for something so big.

Work continues in ernest on cladding the interior to hide the pallets and weather proof the inside, as well as reducing the risk of all those nasty splinters.  Any gaps around the roof have been filled in using expanding foam - works a treat.

Pictures below of work so far......

The helpers painting the outside of their playhouse

Side view of painted exterior

Front view of painted exterior, partly hidden by shrubbery

Washing Machine Drum Firepit

I've seen a few homemade Firepits on Pintrest, Facebook and google searches, which were made from various things, but it was the one made from an old washing machine drum that caught my eye.

Lucky for me, I was told that a friend of ours had just bought a new washing machine, and they hadn't yet taken their old one to the dump, so that was it. I'd have to give it a try.

Unfortunately, I was so eager to get this one done, I only remembered yo take three pictures....

Step 1

Take one old washing machine, and strip it right down. Therr are several videos on YouTube which show you how to do this, but take care when removing the big counterweight stones. Those bad boys are heavy.

Step 2

Once you have everything stripped out, you should be left with the drum , which will be inside a thick plastic casing. 

On the reverse side you should find a single bolt, which once undone, should separate the casing. Unfortunately for me the bolt just wouldn't budge, so after two days of sawing, I finally removed the casing to reveal the drum

Step 3

You can spray the drum with heatproof spray (usually used for spraying the artificial coals on a gas fire), but that's an optional thing. I had run out, but decided to go ahead and try it out anyway.

Have some dru wood and pop it inside. Once you have a he fire lit, you should have something similar to the picture below.

Hope you like the post.

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Thanks

Pallet Wooden Boxes 2

I had to strip the wood from the frames of some pallets I had which left the frames.

What better way to use these crimes than to make another box

Pallet Wooden Boxes

Decided to take a bit of a break from the playhouse. Well when I say break I actually mean I had an hour spare.

So rather than start anything on the playhouse and pull all the tools out for the sake of an hour I decided, with the assistance from my 2 year old helper, to make a box from some leftover pallet wood.

Here's the result......

Question is, will they sell if I make more ??

Children's Playhouse - Day 8

Well it's been a busy weekend on the playhouse, but here's what's now been done;

Stairs now fitted
Old windows boarded up
New window cut out (first one)
Entrance to the secret den cut out (awaiting a door)
Cladded one side
Soft play tiles now laid in the secret den
Kids have also tried and tested the stairs, new window and secret den. The difficult part was getting them back out again...

Here's the pictures;

Newly installed stairs

Entrance to the secret den. Also with soft play tiles

Side view showing new window and cladding.

TOTAL COST TO DATE £3.50 (needed some screws)