- Welcome to Mother Daughter Projects.
I'm Steph.
- I'm Vicki and today we're building this.
This is a C-Table and we've been wanting
to make one of these for quite a while now.
We eat a lot of lunches out here
and I had a place to put my food but Steph didn't.
So this solved the problem.
- So the reason why we did this,
we actually had to do it really quickly
'cause we recently got a sponsorship with The Home Depot
to use this new Olympic Elite Solid Stain
to paint my outdoor furniture.
And we wanted to have this table
so we could show it in the final reveal.
So one thing to note is we didn't actually
have time to wait for this wood to fully dry out
before we started working on this project.
As you can see from the first cut here,
there's definitely still a lot of moisture in the wood
but it's all good.
- Come along as we show you how we built this.
- [Steph] We're gonna be using two landscaping timbers.
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Here we're cutting one set of pieces for the table
to check the height.
We're using a C Table we made previously
to check the height.
When we were satisfied with the height,
we cut the remainder of the pieces.
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We're using a miter saw to make the cuts.
You'll notice I'm wearing gloves and a mask
because this wood is pressure-treated,
as it's made to be used outside.
And you need to protect yourself from the chemicals used
in the pressure-treated process.
Here are all the pieces cut and in place.
The next task is to sand all these boards smooth.
Mom is using an orbital sander clamped to the table
and is sanding each piece to try to take off the roughness.
She started at 60-Grit followed by 120-Grit.
Again, she's wearing gloves and a dust mask.
Next, we're staining these
with the Olympic Elite Solid Stain.
This is the same product we used on my porch furniture.
It goes on really smoothly
and keep be used on damp wood,
which we know this wood was.
With that stained, we laid out all the pieces
and cut five pieces of slotted flat bar.
Here I'm cutting the bar
with a battery-powered DEWALT band saw.
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Mom cleaned the bars with Krud Kutter
then applied some stain to it
and stained the top of the screws that we'll be using.
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Then we got to assembling the table.
Here we're using wood glue between the pieces
but we do not recommend it
because after this dried,
it started to fall apart.
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But in this step,
we did clamp it and attach the metal bars
with hex head screws
and we're using an impact wrench
to get them quickly in place.
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So the next day, we took the remaining wood glue
off the top and bottom pieces
and replaced it with construction adhesive.
This is a much stronger bond for different materials
and ultimately worked way better than the wood glue
and we would've used this from the beginning
if we had thought about that.
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We're reattaching the metal bar in place
and our impact wrench is at mom's house
so I'm using a hand wrench for this step.
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And we're reattaching the ends
with more construction adhesive.
I was concerned about the white showing through
and as you can see, it does show.
But it was really easy to add stain over that
and it blends in perfectly in the final piece.
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We added some weight
to make sure the adhesive dried in the proper placement.
Because we're not taking any chances this time
of this falling apart,
we added long screws to the top and bottom pieces.
And I'm using an impact driver here
which makes quick work of this process.
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- What we learned. - What we learned.
- So we used two landscaping timbers to do this build
and there's a couple reasons we did that.
First, they have a really cool look to them,
the way that they're kinda designed,
so we really wanted that look.
But one of our concerns is that they're pressure-treated
because they're meant to be used outside around landscaping.
But as we thought about it,
we knew we were gonna fully stain them
so it should really seal in
that concerning pressure-treated part.
And we are gonna eat on this surface
but not off the surface
so we weren't super concerned about there being
kind of contamination.
And then the last reason is that
they are typically pretty straight,
the landscaping timbers that we found
when we purchased them in the past.
So that is always a plus when wood working.
- That's exactly right.
Now you saw in the video that we did paint the metal parts,
the nuts and the bars.
And we know it's gonna come off
'cause it's not meant-
- [Steph] It already has a little bit.
- It already has because it's not meant for metal.
But that just adds to the rustic look
and we're okay with that.
- Now if you're wondering why the wood glue didn't work,
we have a couple theories.
One, we already know, the wood was wet.
Number two, we had fully stained the wood
so we weren't really connecting two pieces of wood anymore
because of the stain.
Number three, we have really bad humidity here in Florida,
especially during the summertime.
It's actually been raining during this filming
if you haven't noticed.
It could've been all those combinations but ultimately,
we realized we needed something that would also be thicker,
that would fill in some of the gaping
because this is obviously not perfect,
which is the whole reason we like the look of
this particular wood.
Ultimately, construction adhesive was the ticket here.
- We love the way this looks.
It really reminds me of our past visits
to Disney's Fort Wilderness
or Disney's treehouse villas.
So really gives that rustic
cabin vibe that we really are enjoying.
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- I don't even know what to do with my hands.
- Yeah, we all know. (laughing)
We can see that.
Just hold them right here.
(laughing)
Just hold them like a lady.