Make a Pallet Wood Trash Can screen CHEAP & EASY | TA Outdoors

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Graeme Pullen shows you how to build a trash/bin screen from pallet wood. This simple and easy step by step video shows you some great DIY tips on making a home made screen to keep your bins from view and give a more aesthetic look to your garden! We hope you enjoy the video.

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welcome to totally awesome outdoor show and when I'm outdoors I'm outdoor because I enjoy it unlike the views everywhere and every time I go on that back of my house to take the crash to take the rubbish out I see this bin they're looking at me and it really annoys me because it stands out is plastic and horrible and there's got to be a reason that I can do something to make it look visually better surely I can the different areas sometimes have them in green but even so I just don't like this you know it's just unlike the colour of it I know it's blue for idiots like me that they can say gosh this is the recycling one I know it's a recycling one but what can I do now you can get those stickers that they put over them they actually sort of camouflage them or you can make your own surround for them let's get in the totally awesome workshop okay first thing you need to do is obviously mate its around going to make three panels the wood I'm going to be using I managed to get ahold of some old scrap so if anyone's scratched up this but for the full main core supports you want something like this I've got some two by two this is just a setback you buy - okay it's too short back the panel we're going to do is overlap them like this name them just top and bottom consider what's going to happen is as I put them down like this and this side panel the crossbars are going to use of yes cheap free over there pallet wood that's been stripped down old pallet we'll use it for the paneling I don't nail those two so you just need a full inch nail here and here to lock it in position and I will bring it down to just above the Hammers there okay so not gonna have a lid to this give me the literate because it'll actually actually wants to be able to open it up throw your rubbish your trash your recyclables in there so I'm going to make this just about the height of the handles which is in this case everybody trashed how is different it's 42 inches okay so going to make the for support post first just out now you can use anything if you've got have to do it this way I'm just doing it this way because this is all I got in one would store okay so if you've got one long big Lent great I won't want to use anything much much bigger than about what four by twos big really you know that's quite quite heavy think two by twos enough just to give you some pork to put your side pounds on let's nail these together first and I'm going to start laying those panels there and cutting them for the width and make at least one side panel first okay I got my pre-made app supports any old scrapbook will do but I have managed to find one piece a 42 inches the height of the bin because I want to put a hinged all on one side so that way of doing it will just do for the three side supports but the main one I want to put the hinge on I want to go straight so it's dead lucky there so look around and use one single piece for your end pillar now I'm going to start to build one of the side panels there are some of our UK refugee foods are tapered so make sure you measure not just the bottom but you want the widest point for the two sides and allow for the handles and obviously allow for the two by two at the front you want a bit of space a couple of inches each a will go for 34 inches for the side panel here and that's going to be the 42 inches high which is just covering around about the handle so there we go cover inches either side because you do want to push it in and out obviously yeah 34 inches to be there another pallet wood comes in different sizes if you get thicker than normal pallet wood just put it on the bottom so when you pan like the white bits or at the bottom it really doesn't matter the woodcutter nothing anyway and it what sizzle stand up it's still going to be just a wood screen now to know these touching balls like this to make one of the side panels I say side panel one is done

you see straight on board in Teddy's interview make the other side panel and then I'll go put the back spars in okay so got I've got both side panels done now you could panel in the back as I'm going to have a door just to pull where in the front you need to visually see that that would finish from the front you're not going to see the back any when the bins out when you're emptying it so I'm just going to leave this open and I'm going to put three spars across there 30 inches wide allowing so it's wide enough at the top and for the bottom for the wheels so when it comes in that's going to open back and this gives it the rigidity at the back so three spars any palate will do for this pop off the back of that 2x2 bottom middle up towards the top and then we can start on the front like I've got the three support pounds that hold those two sides apart up there and it adds a good deal of rigidity to it make it a lot stronger you can handle it all of you want is really nerdy too because obviously the pins going to be in there and your doors going to be at the front so you won't be able to see through it so that's what the back done I've now made the front door and door panel we call it Joey I've got it on a couple of hinges and come around there I'll show you what I felt that one front panel it may be exactly the same obviously I've got two main supporter have a single piece along the edge here should be adjusting on the edge there and it might it might just crank in so it's fixed at the back of the spars it might be out it might be in so make sure that you measure the bat first either inside or outside and the same here so they're both exactly the same so you get your door panel the same width and also don't forget you need to measure that bit as well just to make sure he goes into there okay there's nothing worse than making a crash can screen like this and you can't get the trash can in there okay all panel all nailed there now just nothing inside here I have put a couple of little short hinges there if you're going to leave it outside done use just regular metal hinges because obviously they go to rust eventually if you use brass hinges you'll finally last a little bit longer but also make the point of suspending one of the door about an inch or so just above the ground you don't want it catch it on the grass obviously if you got Tufts of grass and stuff there make sure you all have shovel it off flatten the grass or if you've got gravel to scrape the gravel away so everything's nice and level so the door can actually hear you know it can swing back with and forwards like this you want it to be able to close nice and easily perfect like that so I'm going to fire the rest of those screws in and what I'm done as well to make it easy I've got just a bit of this half-inch pallet wood and I put it under the front edge and the back edge Justin to make a week that I know I've got clearance because it's very easy just to screw the hinges on and it drags and catches at the bottom of starches puts it on a talk when it starts twisting you get problems you know when sweet simple easy so that's what I'm going to do there fire those screws in but I'll show these bits at the bottom here just put those little bits in the bottom just off cut some wood there just zoom in so you can see them and it gives you that clearance gives you a little bit of extra clear and say and that makes sure that door can swing closed let's put those screws in now

now you can reduce the talk setting on your drill here because you're going into pallet wood which is quite soft so you're going basically the screw won't fall right through but what it will do is strip the thread on the wood it will cut into the wood too much so you can reduce the setting the talk setting on your cordless then you can fire it in come up a bit there you go and you you've got a nice tight bite on the screw in the wood the thread of the screw into them when it doesn't go so hard

they're absolutely strips are screwed last one goes in here the talked setting but just right and that's all flush one little final thing now you can also do with a little bit of support across the front here so I put another piece of pallet wood there okay and it just goes it and that tips back and also enables that door to swing closed because he's tipped back all the time but I put a shrimp for either side now two way to do this I'm just on a rough one just quickly for this to show you using the long blade of reciprocal saw you can do a much neater one just using a jig so I'll show that in a second but this is just so it allows you to bump over the wheels of the bin easily can bump it in a bump out sure with the bins empty it goes straight I'd be important lifted over when the bin is actually full of recycling or waste material it's heavy it's going to be clunky to bring out so from putting a champ on there to get that chef an angle on the baseplate the base support so the Wolves bump over it nice and easily you can use your reciprocal blade which is at the long one here which is bendy flexible and that's the wood cutting blade standard wood cutting blade just obviously have it canted over an angle like this the Keith create your chamfer or you can use a regular jig saw like this but what you can do and some guys might not know this I don't know but you can actually adjust this underneath by adjusting the screws here and and twisting that over at 45 degrees some of them you know I guess work some of them actually have marks of 90 degrees 45 degrees or degrees degrees in between that marked on this you can adjust it that way that you know the actual blade will cut an angle the both plate the support plate goes along flat but the actual blade is counted over like this that comes on right round get a nice new cup but you know what you've got all that stuff done but the fact that I actually put that support on it does two things it's twofold you actually adds that bit more rigidity to the front end of the unit though because it's tilted back by only half an inch it allows the door to swing close much easier so it will actually close up and you can put a little loop of fishing line and attack if you want to stop the wind blowing it open and of course after that is any one other thing to do get working with the old stain and a brush and get it toned down to either nice dark green or dark wood brown I'm just using a screw don't quite pinch it up tie a knot with a bit of fishing line get up nice and tight slide the knot round see the voila don't overcook the screw just a little bit and then you put your other holding screw just in the front loop I've made there you can see I'll try and do it that way for you that was just going to keep that door closed and you won't get it blown around that's side

I don't bury this girl just leave it proud so the fishing line just goes in the loop around the front of it and you can see it's fake stops it blowed around just cut that tag end off there we go hope you enjoy that on a totally awesome outdoors show keep watching for other tips

this one's easy to make it's a crash can stroke dustbins we call a mini UK just a shelter a screen keeps it out of sight make it nice and neat and tidy so easy to make them close it up does that not look better in your garden or anywhere in fact then a bright blue beam and of course you can you can make a double one if you want one for your regular refuse and trash a one for recycling easy in over the top no need for a lid and then when you want to get it out take it out lift it rolling that job done keep watching the totally awesome outdoors show

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