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It's fourth dimension for some other DIH-Workshop!
Yes friends, i to a greater extent than wonderful workshop happening this Thursday, June 15 @ 6:30 pm at your local Home Depot: Learn how to construct a concrete serving tray. Register right HERE.
In the hateful time, a grouping of bloggers got together to practice a like version of the concrete tray, inwards hopes of give yous ideas for your ain project. At the terminate of this post you'll abide by the link to the other trays my friends accept built.
First, allow me nation yous close my project, because I actually dear it! It was my start fourth dimension working amongst concrete together with it was fast together with easy. I decided to lessen the mutual depression temperature component the concrete gives yesteryear adding pieces of forest for an overall industrial look.
The most of import stair for edifice your ain concrete tray is creating the tray form.
The materials I used to practice the form:
- 1- 22" x 14" x ½" Plywood
- 1- 1" x 2" x 8'
- 1- ½" one-half circular x 5'
- 12 - 1¼" forest screws
- ¾" brad nails.
The materials I used to practice the concrete tray:
- Wooden Form
- Rapid Set Concrete
- 2 Door pulls
- 2- 1" x 3" x 14" pino material
- 2- ½" x 2" x 14" poplar material
- 4- Flat caput Phillips screws ¼in. - xx x 2½in.
- 4- ¼in - xx tpi Zinc plated cap nut.
- Crazy glue
- 1- ½" one-half circular x 5'
- Mixing pail
- paint stick for mixing concrete
- spray cooking oil
Tools:
- Circular saw
- Miter saw
- Drill
- Brad Nailer
- Tape measure, square,
- Sanding block
- Trowel
- Countersink bit
- ¼" carbide drill bit
DIRECTIONS:
Mark the surface area for the 1" x 3" fabric on both ends of the slice of plywood. Then, depict 45-degree lines every 4" inwards the mid role of the plywood.
Cut the one-half circular fabric to encompass the 45-degree lines. Set them inwards identify amongst the pneumatic nailer.
Use 1¼" forest screws to install the 1" x 2" pino fabric all around the plywood, to consummate the form.
The most of import thing when yous are laid upwards to function amongst concrete is having everything ready!
Follow the manufacturer's directions together with mensurate extra quantities of what yous mean value yous mightiness need.
As the advert implies, it's a rapid laid mix, close 10 min. to harden.
* earlier pouring the concrete into the form, I sprayed it amongst cooking crude to forestall both materials from sticking up. *
I wanted to endure extra certain the concrete was good laid together with waited 24 hours to drill the holes for the handles. I used a 1/4" carbide drill bit
Drill holes into the wooden pieces too. Then, it's a affair of sandwiching the concrete inwards betwixt the ii pieces of forest on each side, locomote yesteryear the screws thru the 3 layers, top them off amongst the handles, together with securing them amongst the cap nuts.
The terminal stair is to cutting novel pieces of one-half circular fabric together with gum them inwards place.
Those handles are strong! together with I dear the squeamish finishing touching on the cap nuts give to the tray.
I mean value the improver of the forest warms upwards the apartment concrete surface.
This is a potent tray that's going to serve me together with thence good for a long time!
It's instantly YOUR plough to practice a
Thursday, June 15, 2017
6:30 to 8:00PM
The Home Depot offers Workshops at all of their locations for do-it-yourselfers of all ages together with sense levels.
There are 3 types of Workshops offered:
- Do-It-Yourself (DIY)
- Do-It-Herself (DIH)
- and kids.
Share your really ain projection through your social media channels using the hashtag
#DIHWorkshop
Now, let's come across all the awesome creations my blogging friends created!
Click on the links below to come across lots of Concrete Tray inspiration:
Click on the links below to come across lots of Concrete Tray inspiration:
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