Lumber Dealers Hate This Raised Garden Bed Hack!

thanks to trade coffee for sponsoring this video hey guys today i'm gonna be making raised garden beds out of something i've never seen used before ta-da wait ta-da that's right cement backer board sometimes people may just refer to this as durock which is a brand this is wonderboard which is another brand either way these are three by five sheets that are a half inch thick it literally says on it for use in wet dry areas and indoor outdoor use we're going to find out does this work or am i an idiot spoiler alert could be both [Music] one of the great things about cement backer board is that it's easy to work with as long as you're doing straight cuts you can cut it pretty much just like drywall you score one side bend it flip it over and then cut in the seam to get the other side the first planter i'm going to make is for kim to plant her raspberries in and she just wants that like a foot tall and i'm going to work with the dimensions that i have on this cement backer board which is three foot by five foot so i'm actually going to make this two foot by five foot long but let's come to the first problem with cement backer board you see how flimsy it is because it's not made to take on any weight and i don't know if you can hear that or not but there's some cracking going on so let me get the rest of these pieces cut out and then let's see if we can tackle that issue [Music] here in lies the key to either my success or failure in this endeavor that's right construction adhesive power grab i'm using power grab because other construction adhesives can take hours to set where power grab usually sets oh how about that zero seconds instantly so i really like using this i think when i bond these two half inch sheets together it's going to take a lot of that flex out hopefully take almost all that flex out but we'll find out [Music] [Music] now i won't know how well this works until it's totally set up which is probably tomorrow even the power grab grabs instantly it doesn't fully set up for about 24 hours and if i try to test this too much it's just going to slide on itself so what i'm going to do is set this one to the side let it dry and in the meantime i'm going to go ahead and cut out the pieces so that i can make one more five foot side and two two foot sides [Music] i kept feeling like i was forgetting something and then it hit me i wanted to thank trade coffee for sponsoring this video trade delivers coffee to your home from the nation's best roasters at peak freshness so you're never stuck running to the grocery store take a quick quiz and trade curates matches just for you i was matched with madcap cognition and uh let me just say hold on a second oh i'm sorry i'm being rude do you want to smell that smell that rate your coffees so that trade can continue to send you amazing coffee every month that you'll love like really smooth has a almost a milk chocolate kind of like a cherry type flavor good stuff and just because you're a hacksman 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time i'm going to try it with a longer screw and see if that'll make any difference since this is actually going to be doubled up anyway this is more accurate to how it would be [Music] that's definitely definitely stronger but it's still got that movement there i don't know my backup plan is to use these torque washers and carriage bolts [Music] this would definitely be stronger the only issue is that i don't know if i want to see this on the outside of the planter the reason this works so well is these torque washers dig into the substrate or whatever you're using and then they have that square that matches up with the square on the carriage bolt so that way it locks the carriage bolt in my sides have set up now and there's a couple spots where it was a little uneven on the break there so i'm just going to take a grinding stone concrete grinding stone all righty let's make some concrete for this project i'm going to be using fast set all crete by quikrete i've never used this before so uh just another part of the experiment okay here we go [Applause] [Applause] and these rocks killing me the mix doesn't have rocks in it it's just that because i left it by the garage door and it got rained on i have all these hard clumps that i thought i could kind of just work through but now i'm not so certain i'm letting this dry and now i think i'm pretty confident this is gonna work while this was drying i ran to the hardware store picked up another bag or two of all crete so that i have you know because the problem i was having was the rocks from where the rain hit the bag that was causing me a problem and i tried to start out using the trowel i thought i would need to really shove this on with the trowel that didn't really work so hot uh what worked best was just using my hand and a pair of gloves what i'm going to do now is set up all the rest of the pieces up here and go ahead and give them a coat on the one side and probably go ahead and put a second coat on this one that is much more like it smooth as butter [Music] one thing i also want to make sure that i do while i'm doing this is fill in the gap the seam uh between the two pieces kim just came out here and finished what she was doing which is a big help because i got to tell you one thing about working with kwikset cement and filming yourself is you feel a little bit like a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest so uh lots of glove changing or lots of concrete on the camera i'm just ringing that sponge out almost totally all the water out and then just barely barely touching the concrete so the sides of our concrete raised bed planter are set up but they feel like sandpaper so i'm going over them with this grinding stone you don't have to do that but i just don't want it to feel you know super rough like when kim's working out here in this [Music] so i thought i was going to be able to use these stainless steel screws to hold everything together but turns out not that's not going to hold like i thought it did in the test i'm going to have to go with the carriage bolts [Music] [Music] oh he's so heavy there we go the original plan for this was this is for kim's raspberries and the thing is though now that the whole thing is completed um i don't know cameraman what do you think about this i love it so uh so i may end up building a bunch of these to hold all the vegetables we'll have to see this whole area out here beside the house is going to become the garden area and we're going to put a greenhouse out here and everything these carriage bolts it might even look kind of cool to go back and paint these black i really didn't want these to begin with but kim actually likes them so really i really like them and i hope they rust because i really want that old dirty look some people may look at this and say well it'd have been easier to just pour slabs and maybe maybe not but that would not have given kim the look she wanted she really wanted that old world been there forever look she's probably gonna end up smearing dirt on this to make it look older uh and i'm probably gonna end up making a bunch more of these hey guys be sure to use my exclusive link below to get your first bag from trade coffee for free and i'll see you next time

Channel: HAXMAN

Views: 1,503,113

Keywords: raised garden bed, raised garden beds, diy raised garden bed, concrete raised garden bed, how to build a raised garden bed, concrete planter, how to make a concrete planter, how to make a planter bed with concrete, how to, diy garden boxes, diy concrete planter, garden boxes for vegetables, how to make a planter bed, diy vegetable garden planter boxes

Id: S6B33pAZHvA

Length: 13min 46sec (826 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 19 2021