hello my name's Mel welcome to my world and for those of you that are new
to my channel I'm currently turning this Mercedes Sprinter into an off-grid go
anywhere asleep anywhere kind of stealthy camper van today
I'm gonna be building a baby seat now a lot of people have said to me we don't
actually see you make any think milk so I'm gonna film the entire process but
don't worry I've already pre-cut the wood pre-drilled it all of God do is
assemble it so that's not moving today I'm gonna assemble my bench seat
hopefully less than five minutes I'm gonna film the whole process and the
only tools I've used to create this entire seat use one saw with a broken
tooth or to do need to get a new one and a power screwdriver and that is it just
two tools and some wood and some screws well created a whole bench seat so it's
getting the vein and I'll put the whole thing together
hopefully in less than five minutes if not I'll have to edit that little bit
health so this is where my base seats going to guys a real simple bench seat a
real simple design luck always I keep it simple keep it safe now the purpose
who's been seat other than sitting on it's also going to be it's a fight more
cooler and I want my cooler to slide underneath it so the front this seat is
gonna be open but also I'm gonna have it so I can lift up as well just in case
later wanna check in mind and I want to break it off at the front that way it
gives me the option of opening it and using it as a chest because you can just
shut eyes of stuff in there that way and my cooler I would even put underneath my
fireplace now the height of this bench has gotta be high enough for my cooler
to fit underneath but low enough that my cushions don't come above the fireplace
that's sitting light to them when it gets hot so I want it as low as possible
but it's high enough to pick my cooler underneath so I've put my cooler there
I've drawn a straight line across the US on our fire that's going to be the
actual construction of the bench is gonna be really simple gonna four legs
and a frame on top a simple as that I'm gonna put it all together keep the
camera rolling and you'll see a quick and easy B C's right so this four legs
that's what make sure those screws in
there same that side so pre couple days and pre-drilled the holes middle just to
save a bit of time on camera didn't want to put you through that pain mobs nice
or wood with my broken saw
luckily I'm running out tiles we're not doing me fireplace I've got to go back
down to the shop and get some more tiles I'll pick up a new source a little more
on there and then I should carry on the filming how I'm making me fireplaces has
one it's half finished I think we like something to go to high
gear anyway that's another video completely that's me to back legs so
this isn't a flick support so far so good
now the reason I'm using these thick pieces of Timberlake's fighting off
can't be easy at the forehead this is 44 by 34 same stuff as I used for me
kitchen these Timbers what I use for my bench the nice thing about this the top
of this is exactly the same width of two of these put together okay so well I put
them on the floor like this and use them as legs that goes across there like that
one I mean when I put that there kind of it's all nice and symmetrical
and flat as you can see so that's why I'm using a stick of wood for the links
I know my perfect sense now I'm not touching these legs to the floor just
jacks I want to make sure it's all nice and square first these are all going to
stay floating the only ones I've attached to the back ones the one that
goes here I'm not going to touch that one
put this off top
so I'm just using that offcut as a guide to make sure
trousers are you timing this is taking more than five minutes put that on top
of you move just make sure I've seen it I've seen it I've done how many times
I've said this but you really don't need this big workshop 8c tools just just
think about how you're gonna construct stuff make it easy and slow obviously
this is on top - wrong that's not gonna let fancy joins it's just really simple
for posts and a frying room top I can't wait to get my
give it some strength double up on the screws at each end so I've got two
screws on each ain't that meat sauce just to give it a bit of drink there you
go a really simple frame and we'll need there's the top be right back is what I
cut earlier there you go so that now it's my big thick done and I'm gonna put
hinges at the back on every slightly forwards some hinges on the back
they're not gonna lift it up get in or I can also
very good enough clearance for me to put laminate flooring down should be enough
room and the reason for that reason I'm going right down on top of this because
I want to put laminate flooring down once I put them the flowing down that'll
raise the height slightly so it should be just enough so I can put a front on
that if I want to and use it as a chest this lifts up I've got chest
bench traditional or I can just accept down I'm not gonna fix it down because
I'm gonna what I'm gonna do now is get foam I'm gonna get some phone cut to the
size of this and then cover the phone and staple the covering to the back of
this that is the easiest way to make any cushioning is to actually rather than
try and make like a messy pillowcase if you like for your phone cushioning it
going to get some plywood like this get your phone cut to the right size
choose the material you want to use I mean you could even use and I will cover
anything like that cover it I have a font two corners nice slide it round
I mean stifle the fabric from this side I mean hey presto you've got you've got
your cushioning basically so that's what I'm going to do with this
and once I've covered it put the cushion on top covered it stapled it around
hopefully my quick video about there and I'll set this on here with hinges some
little clips stopping jumping up and down as I Drive and there you go there's
my seat simple as that so let's talk a little bit about my
fireplace agency's half done the reason his half down is because I'm Brody
sometimes these tiles are super fixed super strong and I did struggle to cut
them but I found a really neat way here I cut these tiles on the cheap as well
and now I'm not using me saw I don't think that's not help right the tea for
me saw so if you want to see me finish off me fireplace bunts I've brought some
no tiles don't forget you're gonna need to subscribe to my channel and hit
notification bill that way you won't miss me finishing off meets fireplace
now before I go I want to say really messy thank you a lot a little big thank
you to Gary Howard from uni struck after made my uni struck video about how to
make us a roof wreck Gary sent me some in caps free of charge
as well so I think you're going I really appreciate that and if you haven't seen
that video you don't seen the video of me making my roof right now have you
nice truck and please do check it out I'll leave a link around about there
somewhere anyway thanks for watching and if you
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