You remember those old tractor tires our parent filled with sand when we were kids?
Well this is the next best thing.
Nostalgia is a good thing, if it's energies are directed towards the future.
Thats what I'm doing with this weeks project and building a DIY covered Sandbox.
I'm also preventing a bunch of holes from being dug everywhere. My kids are worse than gofers.
I've got a couple of two by eights that I'm cutting to size for the sandbox base. But
Stan, how do you know what size to cut them
you ask? That's easy. I went to simply easy diy dot com and got a complete list of cuts
and materials.
Made my life simple. Check the description. I'll have the links.
I'm just using a circular saw and a combination square to make short work of all that.
Once my four sides are cut to length I'll use this piece of scrap to mark a line the
width of my material on one of the sides
That helps me to better keep my pilot holes centered for the adjoining board.
Flip it over, do the same thing.
Lay those four boards out and drive some three inch deck screws.
That's one side now the others.
Simple and easy. Just the way I like it.
So far so good lets, build the top. I'll use some one by fours for that.
Alright the first part of the sandbox top is too easy. Just lay the boards on top of
the base frame.
Flush the ends.
No when your working near the ends of boards like this drilling pilot holes is almoast
a necessity so that you don't
split the ends. Then drive some screws
If you wanna know what I'm using and when i'm using it. Head off to my website.
Simply easy diy dot com.
All that information. Its going to be over their.
Measuring when you don't have to is a wasted venture. Spacers between the boards will help
me keep evan spacing without even trying.
I'll do that for three of these boards because the top cover is going to be in three segments.
So thats one. For the second section I'll lay all three boards out with spacers. Then
attach a couple two by twos just inside
the sides of the box frame. How far inside, that doesn't really matter.
Now I can just flip that over like so. Some strap hinges
will connect those two sections.
Time to assemble the final top section.
I've taken some two by fours and ripped those in half
to make a couple two by twos. You don't have to do that you can just buy 2x2's but you
probably won't get these rounded
over corners like this. I want these to be facing down when I attach
the slats. I'll butt those up against
my spacers then lay out the remaining slats on top of the 2x2s. The reason I wanted the
rounded over corners to be facing down
now is so when I flip this over and attach it to the other two, those rounded corners
will be top side.
Since this is a kid project and I'll be having very tiny ones playing
around it I don't want a bunch of harsh edges all over the place. Now you you could run
all your pieces through a router
with a roundover bit but I figure since the profiles are already there I'm going to take
advantage of them.
Now when I flip that over it'll get attached to the other two sections like this.
Alright so I remove that for the time being and set that aside. Flip that over onto the
first. Attach a couple more
hinges. Just make sure the knuckle of the hinge is overhanging the boards like so. Now
I'll fold those back on themselves.
Spacers are handy dandy things. These are quarter inch, maybe a little thicker. About
the thickness of the knuckle on the hinges,
that's what you'll want. Place those so they overhang the back. Then set the final section
on top of the spacers.
Now the hinges can just be flipped up and attached.
Remember I said I didn't want harsh
edges. A sander with some
80 grit paper makes short work of those.
Now the design plans on my website are actually
going to have an additional
elements to it that you don't see here in this video. It's a shade canopy. I have actually
decided to do something
slightly different and I'll showcase in a future video. Simply easy diy dot com to find
all that information out.
Until then.