Wood benches are not only meant parks. With every passing day, more and more people are investing in wood benches to decorate their gardens or their balconies. Variety is the spice of life, thus wood benches are so much in demand these days. You can get one made out of wrought iron, Parisian in style, with a reclining back and a curved seat for four people or you may go for the austere, modernistic, plywood bench.
Benches are now boasting a stripped down design, one intended to provide maximum comfort and yet go low on the material costs. However, you might want to fuse ideas of furniture from different eras. You may want to draw your own design on a piece of paper or put it down with a 3d modeling software. Handing over the same to the carpenter might not result in the finished product not entirely being up to your satisfaction. Thus, it's advisable you invest in a build it yourself furniture kit. Making one's own wood bench might be a very time consuming process but it pays of in ways more than one. Quite often we see that the bench a carpenter provides is not entirely up to our expectations and they charge a lot of money, for a work that's slipshod to say the least. Here we have provide with an easy to do guide of compiling together your own furniture, using some power tools and easily available materials.
What will you gain from following this guide? Being so user friendly and devoid of glitches, you can comply to obtain your desired results and end up with a bench, which you can proudly proclaim as your own vision come to life.
Certain precautions you should take while trying to put together wood benches with the help of an easy-to-do kit are as follows-
Take all the safety measures suggested in the manual, including wearing rubber gloves, protective face masks from the wood shavings flying into your eyes or your nostrils. Try working in an environment which is clutter-free and there is no fan blowing the wind about you. Keep small containers at your disposal, where you can keep the small parts in while you work. Otherwise at a crucial moment of putting together the furniture, you might not find something and lose time over it.
This guide has been put together keeping in mind that the bench that you wish to construct is meant for a park or a garden.
First of all decide where you want to place the park bench. Get hold of post hole diggers and make 2 holes which re thirty-two inches apart and almost 32inches deep.
Now your kit should provide you with a treated post which normally is square shaped and comes in sizes like four inches by four inches.
Once you are comfortable working with a circular saw, use it to cut the treated post into two equal halves of forty-two inches each. After you have done this, insert them into the holes you have dug.
You have to see to that the posts are level to each other and to ensure that use a plumb line and check their heights. If they are not in one line, use dirt or fillers to bring them to the optimum level. This should be completed with the quick dry cement mix that's provided; it will help you secure the wooden bench in place.
Once the concrete or cement has dried, now slip in the post brackets to see if they can easily fit in. don't screw them in, because the bench measurements have not been taken yet.
Take the wooden bench and place it on the posts to see where they after the leveling is done. Mark the position of the posts fitting into the bench, with a pencil.
Now slip in the post brackets and place the bench seat on top of it. Finally screw in the posts into the benches with those you have been provided in the kit. Now sand the edges and seat, or use a water sealant to varnish the top of the bench. Now even you would say that making wood benches is easy.
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