DIY Garden Bed Edging anybody can do

Hey guys, thanks for signing up today, let's jump right into this now. I've already gone ahead and done some work. Obviously I took out all my old stones and things like my

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and myself. I added a little bit more topsoil and I also went ahead and dug just a little trench and then I added some rock as a base and tamped it down and leveled everything out now we're just going to go ahead and start adding your four by four now you're just They will be our base tables. Make sure one is longer than the others so that we can stagger our joints later, but yeah, we're just going to go ahead and lead our four-by-four in double checking that the four-by-fours are level, nothing moved, nothing moved because this is obviously your starting point, if you start on the level everything will be uneven and out of control so let's just get started.

Make sure everything is good and then we're going to cut our last board to the final length. Now this is a little trick you can use if you don't have a miter saw or anything out there. Just use your comedy or your square and then we'll just hold it tight and then we'll run the circular saw along the square, just make sure everything's nice along the length and then we'll add a little bit of construction adhesive, now you'll just want to to add this into a bunch of little spots all over the place, actually don't just make a line, this thing actually flattens out and then it will expand into the pores of the wood and grab that way afterwards, also make sure you pull the two four-by-fours apart and you add a little bit of glue to the end joints that way, they'll really stick together when you go and place the four-by-four on top of the one before you put it in there and then work from one side to the other. another one there's kind of a flat note, the glue, make sure you have a really good contact patch all over the place, then from there you're just going to add some five or six inch screws, whatever you have on hand or whatever. that you have access to, and just bury them in there now, you only need a couple of these.

These are not intended to be structural in general, they are intended to basically act as a mechanical anchor until the glue dries. The glue actually exerts all the anchoring force on it. Same as before, add a bunch of glue to the end joint and then along the board, put the next 4x4 in there, press it against the end and make sure there's good contact all over the place. Now I realize that I should have taken Removing that sticker first would have helped, but anyway, yeah, go ahead and make sure you have good contact and then, same thing, put some screws along the entire length of the warp, just to I guess I act like a mechanical anchor now.

Let's move on to the end, so this guy is really simple. I already cut the board to size. Now I'm going to check my measurement again. I'm using a four by four so they should only be three and a half inches longer but double check if you're not sure cut that guy to size and then we'll do the same thing as before you'll add a bunch of glue to the ends and the two four-by-fours that are on top. one from the other and then you'll also notice that I have the four by four joints in the corner staggered which will add a lot more structural rigidity to the corner itself so one board is longer than the other and one board fits on top of one board fits on the inside at the bottom from there same thing I said just glue them and screw them now we're just going to add two additional screws one that goes from the end of each board to the four by four behind it.

I'll look at it here in a second, so this will basically help position the corner into the main frame. Now this part is pretty simple, there isn't much to it so it's just seven inch 2x4 pieces that I have. I'm cutting out and these aren't structural at all, they're just cosmetic to give it a 3D look, give it some depth, these are just going to sit on the face of the entire frame, just like I said, style it out a little bit more. What I'm doing is I'm putting one on each end and then I'll find the dead center, put one in the center and then I literally keep finding the center over and over and over again between my halves, I guess, and then my quarters. and then like I said, these are literally just a 2x4 for cosmetics, so it's just two screws, go ahead and just screw all of those into the corner.

I'm going to put in my outside corner first and then I'm going to overlap the front with my front block and kind of drill mice that come across a little bit at an angle, so when you look at the house and the

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from the street, you see the whole front block now right here yeah the block doesn't absorb the frame move forward a little, remove the screw all the way after putting it in and then put it back in, which will absorb the block tightly at the end, although you should have something like this. The corner joints are staggered. and the joints are staggered in the center, so now we're going to go ahead and work on the top Takao, so that's just five quarter deck boards, so five quarters times six gets you the longest run you can, so the longest board you can.

Obviously, the less I seem to have, the better I have access to a smaller truck with a shorter bed, so I couldn't get very long boards. I had to end up using 8 foot boards so I needed two seams at the top, but go ahead and make the seams at a 45 degree angle to help visually hide them at the end. There I'm just going to mark, cut it a little bit more and use my square again at a 45 degree angle. cut my corner again, this is one of those things where you want to sneak up on the corner, mark it again the second time when you're not trying to hold on to an 8 foot board and just make a second cut in that extra minute or two will just save you a lot of hassle again, you can always take more off but you can't put more wood back in so once you cut too much it's rubbish so sneak up on that end joint and make sure everything is okay. now use the cut piece as the end there, basically we're going to lay the corner all the way to the house and then we're just going to mark it to our exact length and then we're just going to cut the end that way.

I don't have to try to fight with all the miter joints and everything, so yeah, basically just turn the board around, put the butt in the house, cut it off and then turn it again, double check your fit if anything needs to be adjusted now. It's time to do it, so make some adjustments, adjust the cut as much as you need and then go back to doing the same thing as before, a bunch of construction adhesive gloves, put it down and just a few screws on top of these guys again that's all we need. I'm going to need it, so I'm just marking it flush with the back of the side of the 4x4 and just inserting some screws through the top again.

The screws are just there is a mechanical anchor until the glue dries for the most part, so one thing. I also like this design - you'll have a little bit of overhang over the 4x4 so it ends up looking like a really nice frame cap and then like the other joint if you have any where you've had that. to extend the length of a span and you have multiple 45 degree angles like that, make sure you add a bunch of glue that will end up holding those miter joints together so they don't come apart over time and then add a screw to your miter joint also, if you want, that will help hold it a little tighter, same thing on your corner, add glue to the joint, add glue to the top of the 4x4 glue and screw in just like that, right now.

I just want to make one thing clear and right away: this is not a retaining wall by any means, it is not designed to withstand a large amount of force pushing it back, so if you have a higher area or something like that, you need to reinforce this now. I know that with the type of cut dirt I have around here and how low it is, there isn't much pressure to push forward, but if you have even a little pressure to push forward, what can you do once you've You've lowered your first 4x4 and you've just laid it on the ground once it's level, all you take like a quarter inch drill bit and a drill, drill some holes through the 4x4 and then all you can do is take some of these 12 inch spikes and now you can stick them through the 4x4 into the ground, that will help give it a little more lateral stability so it doesn't push forward as often, that's just if it has a little bit of pressure, yeah you have more pressure than that, like I said, you're going to need some sort of retaining wall, dig a bunch of dirt beforehand into long channels and then take a 2x4 hole that goes laterally against these. to the bottom 4x4 and you're going to want to bolt that 2x4 into the back of the 4x4, drill a couple of holes in the 2x4 and you're going to take and nail that 2x4 into the ground and then bury that 2x4 and that helps give it more anchoring strength so you don't want to push it forward, but yeah, like I said, this is not a retaining wall, it's literally just a really nice

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bed border, it's all this, I just want to make it clear and there It's as simple as you said, It's not too difficult, but it's a little different from what I at least see here, so I'm very happy with the result if you give it a like and a thumbs up it would be a big help if you guys enjoy this, consider subscribing too and the I'll see in the next one.