Hi I am Craig Phillips and in this video I am going to show you how to build your own
vertical garden using reclaimed pallet wood.
The tools you are going to need are cordless screwdrivers, clamps, screws, drill bits,
tape measure and a hand saw.
Now there isn't much dismantling to do on the pallet.
Take your skids off, we are going to cut them down and use them later on.
And then you are left with the back section of the pallet which is going to be the kind
of spine of your wall garden.
So we keep this into position, what we want to do next is create a kind of ladder effect.
So we are going to use sections off the pallet which is the full length and then we are going
to cut some smaller pieces.
Once this is fixed together it will be mounted on to the base of the pallet and that will
create the shelves where the actual pots are going to be housed.
So we do this by measuring up the length of what we want it which is 1 meter.
We cut 2 pieces at 1 meter in length.
So that now gives me my two sections here.
Place them into position right in the very centre of the pallet and take your measurement
between there for the shelves.
So we will cut four of these down.
So that is our four now cut to size, we will fit one it at the bottom which is going to
be flush to the bottom.
The other two in the centre we will equally space out.
But the top one, we don't want to set it at the top, we want to pull it down a fraction
because we are still going to put pots on there and off course we will are then going
to use other cuts which are going to be mounted on the front and stop the pots falling off
there.
So we set the top one first, and then get an equal gap between the two centre shelves.
The next stage is to actually screw these to connect to this side here.
So we are going to start off by putting pilot holes in the wood.
We will only need two screws in it of course we don't want the wood to split.
We do the same on all four shelves.
We will apply some glue where the pilot holes have come through to add that extra strength.
Use a cordless screwdriver with 40mm nails.
Start to screw them through your pilot hole, that is your four shelves all fitted to the
one side now.
So the next stage is to fit this one again to that side keeping it flush at the bottom
and set back at the top for your extra shelf here.
Great so that is one ladder section now made, what we need to do is make one exactly the
same size to put on the opposite side.
So now you have got your second piece cut, built and fixed together the same as the opposite
side.
Place it into position, double check it is flush on all sides of the base of the pallet
and then we want to fix these to it.
So we can just mark a little line first where they are going to go.
If we take that off for a second and run our line of glue along where the two sections
of wood are going to meet.
Place it back on, offer it up so it is flush on all corners on here.
We can drill a couple of pilot holes through the underside.
So place the second one on top of the glue and use a couple of little small clamps to
squeeze it together so there is no gaps in the centre there.
And then slide it off, re-drill some pilot holes on the underside like we did on the
opposite side.
And before you turn this over and screw the underside on to there you must take off the
clamps.
But what you can also do is pop a little screw between the two sections to hold them nice
and tight together and take off the clamps.
So now that middle section is screwed into there we can release the clamps.
That is holding it into position in there, that's fixed from one side and what I am going
to do now is turn it over to the back of it and now screw it again into
there so it holds this section in position.
And then putting a fixing in between every slat of the pallet to add to the strength.
OK, so now that is fixed on all the underside lets turn it back over again.
We have got the shelves firmly fixed into position, the next stage is to get four more
slats off the pallet.
Now these are the standard size, there is no cutting down required on this.
And of course they are the length of the base of the pallet underneath.
What we need to do is place all four of them directly on top of the individual shelves
that are holding your pots.
Once they are held in to position and you are happy that they are there, line them up
and take your pencil to mark exactly where they are going to be going because you want
to remove them and apply some glue.
Then we can apply our glue where we put our pencil marks.
Now they are placed in to position on top of the glued areas, using our 40mm screws
once again screw them down to the sections below.
Always making sure that you have got two screws in the end of each slat.
In the centre pieces here I have drilled two pilot holes, one is going to screw in to one
piece of timber and one is going to screw in to the other.
That is now all the slats fitted to the front of the wall garden.
If you lift it up in to position now you can see you have got the shelves here which will
house your little pots, stop them falling out with the face piece.
You have got the back section nice and secure to all of these rails, all you have got to
think about now is bolting it to the wall because when there is many pots in there with
plants in there it could become heavy as well.
So when you are screwing through these you want to screw through the back slats here
and the centre pieces as well.
Drill some clearance holes, probably about 4 each side and even some in the middle as
well.
Get them firmly bolted to the masonry wall.
So that is how easy it is to build a vertical garden, if you would like to see some more
pallet projects please visit the website, silverlinetools.com.