A self-made wooden garden bench can be an excellent addition to the exterior of a summer cottage. It will be aesthetic and comfortable to use. Some people buy similar furniture in their respective stores, but if you decide to do this, you will realize that it’s very difficult to choose a bench in terms of size and design. For this reason, it is recommended to make such a design on their own. The instructions below will be useful to both private home craftsmen and professionals.
Preparation of a core set of materials and tools
A garden bench made of wood with your own hands can be done only after the master succeeds in preparing the materials and tools listed below, without which work will be impossible. Thus, you will need to prepare:
- screwdriver;
- drill;
- a circular saw that can be replaced with a hand saw;
- center drill ;
- a chisel;
- grinding machine;
- hammer;
- pencil;
- square;
- level;
- roulette.
It will not be possible to securely fasten if you do not use glue intended for working with wood during the work. You will need a primer. After manufacturing, the bench can be painted, for which purpose an appropriate composition should be used, which will not only ennoble the appearance of the wood, but also make it more resistant to external manifestations. Do not forget that putty is also useful. But in order to make the pores closed, you need to purchase a composition that contributes to this.
A garden bench made of wood with your own hands should be treated with sandpaper, you need to use one that has a grain size of 120. For fastening, use self-tapping screws with a length of 5 and 6.3 cm.
Material preparation for construction
You will need to prepare four bars whose dimensions are 5x10x244 cm. And also a couple of bars with dimensions equal to 2.5x10x244 cm. Another bar should have dimensions equal to 2.5x5x244 cm. After you manage to prepare the above elements, it is worth cutting them out smaller, the dimensions of which will be presented below. To do this, you should use a circular saw, but you can also cope with the work with a hand saw, but the process will be somewhat longer.
Sawing parts of a shop
A garden bench made of wood ( it is quite possible to make it with your own hands ) will have four legs, each of which is 5x10x42 cm in size. You will also need wooden gaskets in the amount of two pieces. Each size is 2.5 x 10 x 5.7 cm. The edges of the frame should also be made in duplicate with a size of each 2.5 x 10 x 15 cm. The spacer should also be two (5x4 x 30 cm). The sides of the frame (2 pieces) must have the following parameters: 2.5x4x155 cm. You will also need the same number of internal partitions of the frame with dimensions of each within 2.5x4x24 cm. But the supports must be cut out five pieces, their sizes are 2.5x5x24 cm. Board , which will form the basis of the design seat, there should be four, their sizes are 5x10x165 cm. At the end, you can also cut edge boards in the amount of two pieces, their size should be 2.5x10x35 cm.
Manufacturing recommendations
Before you make a garden bench of wood with your own hands, you need to think about whether it will be used in tandem with any table. This is important for the reason that the bench should be in harmony with the rest of the furniture in the garden. In order for the bench to look in the general exterior, its surface after manufacturing can be painted to the color of the rest of the furniture on the garden. After the master sawed out all the elements, among which one can distinguish the legs; seats bars under the frame, etc., you need to work on cleaning the surface of all elements in order to rid them of roughness and chips, it is necessary to use sandpaper.
Bench assembly technology
If you are thinking about how to make a garden bench of wood with your own hands, then at the first stage you need to do the legs. In the process, the master should try to take care of the stability of the structure. To do this, it is provided with spacers. Using a chisel, it is necessary to make in the bars, which are intended for the manufacture of legs, excavations. In tandem with a chisel, a hammer should also be used. Each leg has two bars in the structure, which are strengthened between themselves by glue intended for working with wood. In addition, for a stronger connection, it is necessary to use mechanical fasteners - self-tapping screws. The recesses must be made so that their depth is equivalent to the thickness of the bar of the leg. At the next stage, it is necessary to begin fastening the gaskets that are installed on the inner surface of the legs. In this case, it is necessary to use self-tapping screws, the length of which is 5 cm. Additionally, the details are attached to the adhesive.
Fixing plates to gaskets
When a garden bench is made of wood with your own hands, the drawings of which are presented below, at the next stage, you can proceed to fasten the spacer plates. In this case, mechanical fastening and glue should also be used. The length of the used self-tapping screw should be 5 cm
Work on spacers and frame
Now you can strengthen the legs together using spacers. It is necessary to use the same screws and glue. Then you can do the installation of the frame. To do this, a pair of 155-cm bars and a pair of 24-cm boards must be strengthened with self-tapping screws and glue. In this case, the master must use a square, which will ensure the correct arrangement of the elements in relation to each other, as for the bars. Spacers must be installed, and then fixed with screws and glue to the bottom edge of the main frame, this will ensure stability of the frame.
Fixing legs and seat boards
Making garden benches and benches of wood with your own hands, at the next stage, you can proceed to fixing the frame to the legs. Now it is necessary to use self-tapping screws, the length of which is 6.3 cm. Fastening is additionally carried out with glue. It is necessary to install mechanical fasteners very carefully, this will eliminate the likelihood of damage to the bar, the body of which can simply split.
In order to be able to correctly install the boards for the seat, you must first determine the center of the supports, and then attach them. If you make blind holes, then the design seat can be mounted separately, only after doing fixing to the frame. When a garden bench is made of solid wood with its own hands, the drawing scheme of which is presented in the article, it is necessary to make the grooves between the boards minimal, to ensure that the boards are close to each other.
Work on edge boards and decoration
Only now you can do the edge boards. They need to be screwed to the legs of the structure with screws. But if you make blind holes, it will be possible to strengthen the edge boards at a distance of 6 cm from those that lie at the base of the seat.
The garden bench with its own hands from solid wood should be finally finished with high quality to protect its surface from the negative effects of the environment. Initially, the product will have to get rid of burrs, it should not be on the elements and chips, for which the design should be well sanded using sandpaper. The holes that remain after installing mechanical fasteners must be filled with a putty compound. After the wood has to undergo treatment with a pore-filling composition. This will not only protect against moisture, but also from drying, the last of which can cause a violation of the original dimensions of the bench. For high-quality paint application, the wood is pre-treated with a primer. After it dries, you can begin work on the application of paint. In this condition, the bench should be left for the time necessary to dry the paint, only after the bench can you start to use.
Of course, a combination of wood and metal is a great option. Do-it-yourself garden benches made of metal and wood are not only aesthetic, but also durable, but in order to make a steel bench, you must have the skills to use a welding machine.