From furniture to home: it can be made from pallets

The first question that comes to mind when the product in question from the pallet - where to get the stuff? The answer is simple: almost any distribution center or warehouse of household goods. Most likely, it will give them for free or for a small fee. Get hold wooden pallets and wooden bars from the rubber and automobile glasses as possible and in the automobile.

Better to use the so-called pallets, but note that they are harder to dismantle than containers produced domestically. Pay attention to the width of the boards. Standard - 120-125 mm, thickness - 12 mm.

How to disassemble the pallets?

Dismantle - not to build. However, in this case, you have a lot of patience and time. After all, if you use pallets not for rough walls, but, for example, for furniture, you need to get even and without significant flaws board.

As forum users pointed out to the dismantling of the pallet takes 15-20 minutes. Like - not much, but it is - if you're going to do, say, garden table. What about the whole house? It was then, and think about. Speed up the process, you can - if the appropriate skills to develop and reserved the right tool.

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You will need: Nail Puller (better authenticity and with the flat end of a width not less than 3 cm), hammer, pliers, pliers, perhaps - and an ax. Work better in cloth gloves. Also prepare containers: nails of different sizes just sort of jars. Straight and slightly curved nails (once they can be straightened), for sure come in handy on the farm. The rest can be filled in with pouring concrete mortar or foundation unit garden paths.

Before disassembling pallets dry well. More often than pallets made of pine, aspen, birch boards. Less common oak or exotic hardwoods: quebracho, Hevea. Snatch rusty nails from the boards of more complex: a claw hammer pulls her hat and mites snack nail. Carefully inspect the pan on all sides, turn. If nails are punched through, sunk or bent, this product is better to postpone. Most likely, you will break during disassembly transverse board.

If the bent nails are many, nothing to do, have to work with them. Validating advised to remove such nails as follows:

Take thick nail (120-150 mm) or M6 bolt. Put it on a hat knocked out with a hammer and hit a nail - so hat the last bit drowned, and got hooked end of the board.
Right bent end pliers or cut, for example, grinder.
Knock nail back the rectified striking tip.

Straight nails are easily pulled out a claw hammer for just raised bonnet. To pick it up and gently pull on the board, and then hit return it into place.

So, we proceed to disassembly! Turn the pallet and stand on her feet. Claw hammer at an angle to the cubes, pull it toward you. If you want to keep the cubes, push away from you. Pulling hard, extend the arm. Does not work? Then chop the cubes ax. Remove the center board with the dice. Keep in mind that some of the nails remain in them or pull out from hats through both boards.

The resulting shield put into another pan. Straighten the bent nails and knock them with a hammer.

Slightly bent nails comfortably beat by pliers.

Furniture

Validating wends uses pallets differently. Bad sawing firewood, of making good furniture. Houses had gathered a whole collection of such products: chairs, stools, benches, chairs, shelves (in the bath and dressing room), a box for dirty linen trolley. Furniture collected in the screws, cover the stain and varnish parquet. Curly cuts made jigsaw.

Chairs crafted enamel for exterior use. All furniture for bath varnish for a sauna, with the exception of parts which contact with the body. They were covered with oil shelf. First, all details are handled, then collected and the product is already in finished form, once again covered.

flower beds

The tray treat sandpaper, process protective structures from rotting and insects. Then wrap film or landscape fabric sides, bottom and back side of the pallet. Leave the top open. The film can be attached staple gun. Pour the ground, gently tap. Now it is possible to plant the plants. Effectively vertical flower bed will look frizzy, for example, ivy and bindweed. Suitable stonecrop, alyssum, loosestrife, young, thyme and other ground cover.

Do not rush to put a flower garden vertically immediately after planting. Wait a couple of weeks until they take root. Water the flower bed from top to bottom.

Of wooden pallets can be made and raised vegetable beds. Then, for the crops will be easier to maintain.

garden house

Fence, rough interior walls, Booths for dogs, chicken coop, garden furniture, toilet - where only forum users have not used pallets! And here Kobluha built a house! Initially it was used as a shed, with time (when the main house is ready), it becomes a guest. Building Size -. In addition to 5x4 m pallets also used lumber - "weave" (for the lower and upper strapping), insulation, siding, metal roofing, flooring, tile battered (plinth).

Houses stands in nearly a month, and about 40 thousand - along with interior and exterior trim. For comparison, construction trailers are 70,000 "wooden". His views are not pleasing to the eye, but here - cheap and nice!

Summer residents live in the house from May to November for three years. In the summer it is cool, early spring and autumn the building is heated by an oil battery. House withstood even the strongest hurricanes, while at the neighbor's blown away. Slightly later extended living space: home they built a veranda and a kitchen, hereinafter plan and attach bath.