welcome to steve rob reviews well the title today is thinking outside the mailbox and right in there
is a mailbox so i'm going to show you kind of a unique uh thing that i've done
to uh my house where i put a mailbox out in front of my house for uh the mailman and
today is going to be an improvement now inside here is a mailbox much larger than the one
that i had before and this is one of these deals you get from amazon called uh amazon
warehouse deals the regular price for this at home depot is 140 the regular price on amazon
is just over a hundred dollars i paid 43 bucks but it says may have up to 5 damage on it this
kind of stuff but my you know in my experience on amazon most of the stuff that i bought i've
never found a defect on and i think they're just returns but we're gonna open up this one here
let's take a look and see if this thing is all dent and smashed and everything else but uh
it's a much larger one and i'm gonna show you what i have outside now and i'm gonna show you
how thinking outside the mailbox well it's a huge improvement in what i have right now
okay you ready now this hasn't been opened up before but you can see it's a return box
and it's been taped up like a couple of times i'm just going to open it up here
and see what we have
okay so we got it right here oh man that is a huge one okay
i'm gonna go get this out
okay let's just try this
there we go right there
okay i'm going to get you a better shot of this mailbox because we're going to see if this is
dinged and dented i'm i'm telling you is this heavy or what but you take a look at that is
that is that you see any dings or dents in that anywhere does that look dinged and dented to you
what about that side this first time i'm looking at it
it looks pretty good to me and the whole idea behind this mailbox is
it's got like a cast well as you can see this door is on backwards right take a look
at this knob here come backwards so i think what i got to do is reverse the door around
because you know the knob should really be on the outside right
so maybe there's some uh destructions inside but i don't see anything on this
you know and this is pretty well useless nobody ever uses these flags and that but
look at the size of this it is like i mean that's pretty huge and this is all cast on both ends
and i really don't see any things no dents no nothing on this so
okay i'm going to turn that door around it must be able to turn around i think they just have it like
that for shipping but it looks like brand new to me and uh you know i don't do fancy guys so i mean
if it's had a couple of dings and dents in it like uh c'est la vie right so what i'm gonna do is i'm
gonna show you the mailbox that i have now and the reason why i'm changing this is i tell you
something the amount of packaging that we get today like i get flyers in a bundle like this
you know the person can barely stuff it inside my mailbox because my mailbox is only like like
this big but i'm going to show you and my mailman said to me one day he's actually a friend of mine
and he said you know he said i'd like to be able to put some packages in there but your mailbox
is just too small save me from you know bring it all the way up on the steps and that kind
of stuff because sometimes i get you know like packages that just just won't fit right so i said
no problem i can fix this that's what we got right there that's the fix so let's go out and
take a look at uh my mailbox and what i have now and uh you're gonna see some huge improvements so
let's let's go take a look okay so we're out the front of the house this is the mailbox that i have
and as you can see if you take a look in there you just see a couple of carriage bolts in there
you can see it's definitely smaller than before and all i have is a pipe pounded into the ground
and if you take a good look right here i do have just a little bit of a set screw here put some
caulking on here and a pipe that telescopes inside and if we take a look at the bottom i'll get a
shot of the bottom here yeah you can just see that there's a couple of carriage bolts hanging down
well we're gonna make a huge improvement on this today and we're gonna actually cover this whole
pipe and i'll bring you back when uh when this is all switched over well this is one hour later
and it's all complete i'll take you out to the front and i'll show you how it looks and see if
you can guess what the outside casing i use to make this with and then we'll come back in the
shop well there we go right there can you see a huge difference in size between the both of them
and uh you know i put the knob on the outside here you can see how that's all bolted in and then i'll
i'll show you how this is all done underneath
and look at that i just bolted the board on the bottom there and uh it's uh it's it's
kind of dark but you know what that's it right there and i just bolted it on there and that's
it now of course you can't see where i bolted it here and here like you've seen in the frame before
so well that's it right there and i think it looks pretty swift and can you guess what the
outside covering is there so let's go back in the shop and uh i'll explain how i actually did this
well all i used was pvc downpipe now you can get this in white or you can get it in brown
you know it's up to you what color you want to get but i chose the the white and to tell you the
truth when i was looking over there i i didn't see anything like i bought this at home depot and it
was like 13 bucks i didn't see no brown now i can change it to brown anytime it would only take me
a couple of minutes to swap it out so how do you actually do that where you don't see no hardware
well i the top of the mailbox is 41 inches i mean to the top of where the fasteners are 41. i read
the instructions and i didn't know that there is actually a specification where you got to put your
mailbox because up here in canada very few people have mailboxes at the front of the house they
always have them up on their steps or somewhere around there and uh well you know the male the
male people well you know it's hard in the legs going up and down stairs all the time right so
i have a 41 inch height from the grass to the bottom of the mailbox so i dug it 47 inches deep
put the pipe over top now i got all the access to the fasteners underneath lift up the pvc here
cover it with dirt and bob's your uncle and that's it so that was a very easy job took me an hour to
do right from the beginning to the end and that's a project that most people could tackle themselves
and you just gotta pound a you know a pipe in the ground make sure you know where you're putting
your pipe right and uh then telescope another one inside and this time i put in a couple
more fasteners on the side to really lock it in tight and of course i don't need no caulking to
go around the lip of the two different pieces so water doesn't get in there and it's it's there for
good i mean for that's probably going to be there for the next 25 years i mean that is a really good
heavy duty mailbox i don't see too many that's that big and my mailman's gonna love it so thanks
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