Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

[gtaus]

I decided to redo parts of the kitchen and have been trying to use pallet wood in places that I can. I needed to hide the bathroom pipes in the ceiling so I made a drop ceiling type thing from pallet wood.

Well, you did a great job because I cannot tell where you used pallet wood for the drop ceiling. It looks really good - but I'm partial to that kind of wood look. Very nice.

 

[gtaus]

Pallet Wood Backer Boards

It finally warmed up enough here in northern Minnesota that I can move the car outside of the garage and start working on some pallet projects again. Happy days!

Over the winter, I picked up a few items that would be great wall-mounted. One was a plastic tool organizer shelf that I got at the Thrift Shop for about $1.00, and the other was a new fast charger for my Ryobi batteries. I wanted to mount them in the garage, but the problem was that everything is sheet rock and the holes in the tool organizer were not made for 16 inches on center studs. For some reason, the closest I could find were some holes that were 24 inches on center, but honestly, it just looked like the holes on the organizer were placed were convenient for the plastic shelf.

I found a nice pallet wood board and cut it to length for the tool organizer shelf and cut another piece for the charger. I took the pallet wood and screwed it into the studs of the wall. Then it was no challenge to mount the items to the pallet wood because I could put those screws anywhere in the wood.

I'm not the first to think of this idea. I found out it's called backer board mounting. You just put up some wood on the wall, securing it into the studs, and then you are free to mount your items easily anywhere on the wood.

I tossed some items on the tool organizer for a picture to give you an idea, but it will get filled with screwdrivers, pliers, tape measures, etc... later.

That stuff got mounted in a place that has easy access year-round. So, my plan is to put my most used items on the tool organizer. That new Ryobi fast charger charges both 18v and 40v batteries in 2X-3X times faster than my other chargers. I don't usually care about how fast the battery charges because I have lots of batteries, but this charger can charge both the 18v and 40v batteries in one unit. That's nice. Plus, my other chargers and battery shelf on my main workbench are harder to get at in the winter with both cars in our garage.

Well, it's not a big pallet wood project, but like I say, sometimes these small projects have great value. The concept of using free pallet wood as a backer board was what I needed for this project.

Future plans...

Dear Wife has put in an order for some more pallet wood planters for her flowers this spring. Our ~25-year-old half whiskey barrels are falling apart and will be retired this year. She likes the fact that she can special order how many and what size(s) pallet wood planters she wants. And I like making them.

I also want to make some kind of low garden bed around the chicken run where the run litter naturally overflows through the wire fence. I don't know if that will be another pallet wood project or if I have enough salvaged landscaping timber for the project. But I'll share some photos of that project if/when I work on it.

Hope to hear about pallet projects others are doing this year. Share what you can. Later.

 

[akroberts1085]

Pallet Wood Backer Boards

It finally warmed up enough here in northern Minnesota that I can move the car outside of the garage and start working on some pallet projects again. Happy days!

Over the winter, I picked up a few items that would be great wall-mounted. One was a plastic tool organizer shelf that I got at the Thrift Shop for about $1.00, and the other was a new fast charger for my Ryobi batteries. I wanted to mount them in the garage, but the problem was that everything is sheet rock and the holes in the tool organizer were not made for 16 inches on center studs. For some reason, the closest I could find were some holes that were 24 inches on center, but honestly, it just looked like the holes on the organizer were placed were convenient for the plastic shelf.

I found a nice pallet wood board and cut it to length for the tool organizer shelf and cut another piece for the charger. I took the pallet wood and screwed it into the studs of the wall. Then it was no challenge to mount the items to the pallet wood because I could put those screws anywhere in the wood.

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I'm not the first to think of this idea. I found out it's called backer board mounting. You just put up some wood on the wall, securing it into the studs, and then you are free to mount your items easily anywhere on the wood.

I tossed some items on the tool organizer for a picture to give you an idea, but it will get filled with screwdrivers, pliers, tape measures, etc... later.

That stuff got mounted in a place that has easy access year-round. So, my plan is to put my most used items on the tool organizer. That new Ryobi fast charger charges both 18v and 40v batteries in 2X-3X times faster than my other chargers. I don't usually care about how fast the battery charges because I have lots of batteries, but this charger can charge both the 18v and 40v batteries in one unit. That's nice. Plus, my other chargers and battery shelf on my main workbench are harder to get at in the winter with both cars in our garage.

Well, it's not a big pallet wood project, but like I say, sometimes these small projects have great value. The concept of using free pallet wood as a backer board was what I needed for this project.

Future plans...

Dear Wife has put in an order for some more pallet wood planters for her flowers this spring. Our ~25-year-old half whiskey barrels are falling apart and will be retired this year. She likes the fact that she can special order how many and what size(s) pallet wood planters she wants. And I like making them.

I also want to make some kind of low garden bed around the chicken run where the run litter naturally overflows through the wire fence. I don't know if that will be another pallet wood project or if I have enough salvaged landscaping timber for the project. But I'll share some photos of that project if/when I work on it.

Hope to hear about pallet projects others are doing this year. Share what you can. Later.

That's so cool. I wish my husband could/would build me custom planters but all I get from him is I am not a carpenter.