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- Herausgeber: Books on Demand
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Serie: Wooden garden construction
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
A few tips, tricks and instructions from a carpenter, for garden hobbyists. Volume 1 is about animal housing so that your pets feel really comfortable. So that you can give them a home by heart. The considered space requirement laws of the individual animals, where they exist, have the status as in Germany, January 2023. "Garden buildings for you" and "For fruit, flowers and vegetables" are also planned.
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Do it yourself wooden garden constructions including wood and tool knowledge
Book 1-3
1.) Building materials - wood
2.) Weather protection products
3.) Tool knowledge and maintenance
4.) Become one with the wood
5.) Timber framework connection types
Book 1
6.) A chicken coop for up to 6 chickens & 1 cock
7.) Rabbit stable for up to 2 – 3 rabbits (in the construction example)
8.) Custom made dog house
9.) Cat tree
10.) Bird cage for 1-2 Birds
11.) Feeding houses for birds in the winter
12.) Nesting box
13.) Insect hotel
14.) Garden pavilion
Book 2
15.) Tool Shed
16.) Garden bench with table
17.) Children's swing
18.) Garden swing for the family
19.) Garden windmill version 1 and 2
20.) Bending and turning of wood (for experienced domestic craftsmen)
21.) Tree house tips
22.) Hybrid greenhouse
Book 3
23.) Raised bed row
24.) Floor beds (leveled beds) 5 meters
25.) Composting box
26.) Winter garden
27.) Front porch
28.) Construction and animal husbandry law as in Germany
Book 1-3
29.) Project planning
30.) Sources
31.) Other books by me
Preface:
I am a carpenter, trainer and writer. In this book you learn something about the material wood and the tools you have at home when you do home improvement work because you enjoy building something yourself.
Of course, this book can also awaken the love for wood crafts.
Our motto is: “Make your garden a personal paradise, I wish you a lot of fun.”
Recommendations: Read the book up to the first construction projects, choose your next project from the instructions and read it through. Then read the project planning chapter. Follow these two guides, start your project and then dig deeper into the other guides if you have time or want to tackle a new one.
The animal enclosures are for garden animals except for the cat tree and the bird cage.
Note: Right-handed people attach the door hinges to the left and work with their right hand in the stable.
Left-handed people attach the hinges to the right (doors, windows... open to the right) and you can then work more easily with your left hand in the barn.
As a result, you have the door, the window... not on the side of your arm where you working hand with..
1. Building material knowledge - wood
When it comes to wood, there are two major distinctions. Softwood and hardwood can be both, conifer and deciduous tree.
Hardwoods are usually a bit more expensive to purchase, but they are not as susceptible to weather influences and/or pests or fungi' s.
You should remove the bark, because most insects or wood fungi romp in between wood and bark.
If you want to keep the bark, for aesthetic reasons, carefully separate the bark, paint the surface after you have rubbed it off vigorously. Brush the bark and dip it in lacquer for about 5 minutes so that the lacquer flows everywhere and seals. Then, after drying, glue the bark back onto the wood. Press the bark firmly so that each gap is closed. Then go with the paintbrush again over the connection points between bark and wood. By this way, you have preserved the aesthetics and still protected everything.
Most of the wood used in the constructions here comes from pine and spruce. This wood is very light in weight and workmanship. It is pale wood and can therefore be easily painted with all colors. Walnut, on the other hand, is an expensive hardwood that has a strong dark tint.
Of course, you can also opt for other woods because of the tint.
Hardwoods are heavier than the soft woods.
So You can build a garden bench from mahogany wood or from pine wood. If you paint the latter with mahogany-colored lacquer, you will hardly notice the difference except by the weight, if you paint it well.
Of course, hardwood is harder to work with. Birch can almost be scored with the fingernail, but is not suitable as a wood for tables or even the pavilion floor.
2. Weather protection products
There are various lacquers and stains. Choose the waterproof means for gardening.
But beware, do not use any protective products in the "interior" of animal buildings, especially not for the ground. Birds scratch and peck on the ground and cats, hamsters, dogs and rabbits scratch on the ground. None of these products are suitable to be found in the stomachs... of the animals.
Think of the animals as your infants, who have to put everything in their mouths and maybe bite on them.
Stains and paints are usually not fireproof, (pay attention to the label).
Galvanized nails are also not recommended for animal constructions.
The tarring of dog- and other animal house roofing is highly dangerous. The tar (bitumen coating) becomes soft in the heat of the sun and glues the skin/feathers/fur of the animals. These then get movement difficulties and shortness of breath. They must then be taken care of by veterinarians.
Treat replacement parts on the outside first, allow them to dry and then replace the part.
3. Tool knowledge and maintenance
Saw blade for wood saws (fox tail and / or bow saw)
The toothing differs from that of the iron saw, except in the case of the jigsaw. This toothing is easier to clean of any resinification.
Chisels, planers and pull plane
Surfaces are smoothed and/or worked out with this. A pulling knife is used to remove the bark (peeling). When planing, peeling or punching, you always go with the stroke as with shaving. Go with the grain, otherwise you tear the wood open instead of removing small chips. Sometimes, wood can react more sensitive like a chin.
Rubber hammer/wooden hammer and carpenter's hammer
Rubber hammer or wooden hammer (mentioned as a rubber hammer hereafter), is used for working with chisels so as not to damage them or, for example, joins like a dovetail joint so as not to damage the surface of the wood.
The carpenter's hammer is suitable for hammering in nails, clamps and bolts.
If the nail has gone wrong, you can remove it again with the designated cow foot on the hammer. The extended claw/tip of the hammer is used to prick under clamps, bent nails or the like and lift them up until they can be removed with the entire cow foot. The effort required for hardwood is much greater depending on the hardness. The same applies to planing or punching out.
Note, working with hammer, is a work that also puts a lot of strain on the wrist. If you are not used to this, it can lead to joint pain that recommends a break.
Angle iron, tape measure and solder, pencil, tear nail, spirit level
