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| Garden Bench DIY |
| Make your own garden bench using treated pine. |
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Start by assembling the front legs, cross-rails, back legs and armrests. Then glue and screw together. This will give you the ends for your garden bench. (See Diagram 1.)
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Assemble the seat and back support frames. Use a halving joint for strength. To make a halving joint, place the seat support over the back support, mark both pieces and cut out half the thickness from each piece.
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Next, screw the seat and back slats to the support frames. To make things a little easier, position the frames upright on the bench or floor. Screw the front edge slat on first. Then screw the slat onto the top edge. Now you can screw on your first back slat (making sure it overlaps the top slat). Then screw on the first seat slat (making sure it also overlaps the front edge slat).
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Now you can continue screwing on all the seat slats. Then add the back slats (leaving about 10mm of spacing between each). Tip: Before you screw on all the seat slats lay them all out loosely where they will be screwed in and adjust them so that the gaps are even. Do the same before screwing in the back slats. (See Diagram 3.)
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Attach the bench ends (Step 1) to the seat and back as shown in Diagram 4, making sure that the angle between the back leg and the bottom of the seat is 100o.
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Now attach the front crossbar from the back of the front legs.
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Varnish with a coat of decking oil.
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Materials
22m of 100mm x 25mm decking
2.4m of 50mm x 50mm decking
6m of 100mm x 38mm decking
Sikaflex glue
Galvanised course thread screws: 75mm, 48mm, 65mm, 35mm
Cutting List
100mm x 38mm (for the two arm rests)
50mm x 50mm (for the four legs)
100mm x 25mm decking (for the two crossrails and 14 seat slats and front crossbars)
100mm x 38mm (supports for the seat)
Cut off shaded areas as in Diagram 2.
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More Info
All materials available from your hardware store.
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