Hi I am Craig Phillips and in this video I am going to show you how to build your own
shoe rack out of recycled pallets.
The tools you are going to need are, a tape measure, set square, cordless drills, screws,
a chop saw, if not a hand saw, and an electric sander.
Measure the pallet slats and cut them down to size the length you want your shoe rack.
Now all four corners are cut to height, I have chosen a meter in length.
I have also cut these to the length of my shoes, which one is going to be placed on
the top like that.
And then you can start to place these where you want the shelves.
Of course on e on the very bottom, and then my next shelf up is going to be around 200mm
gap between them.
Same again with the next one and that will leave me with a larger space at the top for
any boots.
OK what I am going to do now is drill some pilot holes in the wood to stop them splitting.
Put a small amount of glue on here, and drive some screws through to hold it firmly together.
Do the same on the opposite side, a couple of pilot holes.
And drive a couple of screws right the way through your pallet slats.
Perfect!
That is in position.
Double check your sizes that you are happy with them.
So the three side ones are all set the same.
The top one we are not going to place on the side, we are actually going to place it on
the top using the same method, drilling some pilot holes in to stop the wood from splitting,
glueing them and screwing them in.
Now on your opposite side, once you have fixed the top bit in place, line it up with the
opposite side and then you want to use your pencil just to make a mark exactly where them
slats are fitting on both sides.
That way you can be sure your shelves are going to be level.
So that is our two sides now complete.
What we need to do is work out what length we want the shelves.
Now I have chosen my length of the shelf to be a meter long.
And so I am going to slide that piece in, square it up to here and square it up there.
Get another section also a meter in length, check to see if it is flush with my corner
there.
And same again on the opposite side.
And then the third piece will be going in the centre like this.
Like with all the fixings with do with the pallet sections we are going to drill some
pilot holes in them first, put some glue in position and then firmly screw them down.
Right, that is the three main bottom slats put into position.
We do the same again on the next shelf and so on up.
Now that is the top almost complete.
We have just got some small little sections in here, what I am going to do is get an off
cut, mark that up and simply cut four pieces to slot in between there.
Then we can sand it all down and then it is ready to varnish or stain.
Now a
great way to sand these old pallets is by using a belt sander.
If you don't have one of them of course a sanding block with some course sand paper
is fine.
And that is how easy it is to make yourself a shoe rack from old pallets.
If you want any more pallet projects please visit the website, silverlinetools.com.