to drain, water will collect in the bottom
with nowhere to go. We need to find a
way for the water to drain out. The
solution that we came up with is to drill
small drainage holes through the bottom.
We drilled six ½” holes spaced evenly
over the bottom. Make sure that the
holes don’t go through the feet because
they touch the ground and won’t allow
the water to drain out properly.Step 5
Now that the bottom is completed we can attach the panels around it.
Take a long and short panel and wrap them around the bottom section,
(make sure you’ve flipped the bottom over so that the feet are against the
ground.) The long panels overlap the short panels. We also used scrap
pieces of cedar underneath the panels to raise them off the ground by ¾”
while we nailed them to the bottom. This extra space makes sure that
the bottom edge of the panels won’t sit in water for long periods of time
helping the wood to last longer. Measure up from the bottom edge of
the panels to the center of the bottom boards and use your combination
square to draw a line across. This line will mark where to place your
nails to make sure they go into the bottom boards. Along the bottom
edge use the same 8d galvanized nails you used in building the bottom.
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