Projects For The Board.
A while ago a friend of mine was replacing the flooring in his bungalow. I am keen on woodwork so I asked him what he was doing with all of the old floorboards. They we still in good condition and I was pretty sure that I could make use of them. He told me that if I took them away I would actually be doing him a favour; he’d been planning to get a skip and just throw them all into that.
It turned out that there was a lot more wood than I expected, but this was okay because I am always making things in my spare time. When I got it all back to my house I stacked it up on some bearers in the back garden and sheeted it over for the winter.
When the weather improved I went out to the shed and got started on my first project; I had ideas for a few different things and had drawn up some plans already. Because the floorboards were tongue and groove I was able to slot them together and create good joints. The biggest (and most boring) job was to sand down each board before I used it, but they looked really nice when they were done.
I managed to build all kinds of different things from the stack of boards in my garden; a TV unit for the front room, a wardrobe, a small tool shed and a coffee table. Not bad going when you considering that all of this wood was just going to be thrown away!
So, if you are doing some work in your home and there is a lot of ‘waste wood’ have a think before you just get rid of it. If you can use it to make something then it will give you a tremendous amount of satisfaction.
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