Hi YouTube. My name's Geoff and I'm the VegOilGuy. This week, the wife’s had me busy building
some privacy trellis. I could have bought some but everything I looked at was thin and
flimsy, so I built my own. It’s very easy to do, so I thought I’d
share the process with you in a quick video. I started off with roofing battens. These
are fairly sturdy lengths of treated timber used by roofers and the standard dimensions
suited my needs perfectly. I spent an easy half an hour cutting the lengths
I needed and I purchased these Stainless Steel screws to hold everything together.
I’ve already got these small posts and I’ll be spanning these.
I began with gluing and screwing two lengths together to give me an L shaped bottom support.
This gives me something to rest the verticals on and helps to keep things nice and consistent.
I screwed this spanning the all three posts, though the trellis won’t go all the way.
I screwed on a temporary upper support and this allowed me to clamp a temporary vertical
piece. The horizontal battens simply butt up to this, and it’s a useful and simple
guide. Spacing the battens couldn’t be easier.
The bottom piece is already fixed in place. On top of this, a dummy batten is lain, then
a batten is placed upon that one and fixed. The dummy batten can be removed and the process
repeated. This enables consistent horizontal spacing.
It’s worth noting that stainless steel screws must have a pilot hole drilled. They’re
excellent at resisting corrosion and can be used and re-used for years, but the heads
are very soft. It’s very easy to tear out the head with a screwdriver bit. So a small
pilot hole is a must. It slows the process down, but it’s worth it.
Now at this point I’d run out of post height, so I switched to fitting the vertical battens.
Thanks to the original temporary vertical guide, the first length is already nice and
true, but I secured a spirt level in place just in case.
Just as before, the first length is fixed, then a dummy batten butts up against this,
and another batten gets fixed alongside that. This creates a pleasing mesh of small squares,
ideal for privacy trellis. For me, I then had to add in the remaining
horizontal battens in the same way, but again this was nice and easy.
It’s worth noting that I tend to be a bit over the top when it comes to fixing. As you
can see here, I screwed every second batten and alternated this throughout. It’s up
to you if you want to do the same, but trust me, this is beautifully strong trellis.
It’s then just a matter and adding a little fence preservative, but before that…
Don’t forget to look out for the upcoming Casting Challenge. This time the challenge
is to cast a Viking Axe, so look at for that! And here’s the finished trellis after a
quick splash of paint. I hope you’ll agree, it doesn’t look too bad. It’s very easy
technique to create this consistent small square look, and it creates an effective privacy
screen. I hope you enjoyed this one guys and if you
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other videos on my YouTube Channel. So that’s it for now guys, take care and
thanks for watching.