I'll be posting on those as soon as we have some updates. In the meantime, I thought I would share my compost bin project.
After tearing down our deck, we ended up with a big pile of lumber.
I put up a post for free lumber on Craigslist, and I was able to find one guy to pick up this entire pile. But, I kept some pieces that I thought would come in handy for making a compost bin. I had this project in the back of my mind since early spring when I realized I had nowhere to put all the leaves, weeds, trimmings, etc. and general yard waste.
Conveniently, we had two large gate pieces that were removed from the deck. After cutting them in half we had 4 pieces that looked something like this:
These would serve as 2 of the sides of the compost bin and the top. We also had some 2x4s and some pieces like this:
We cut the 1x6s to the length we wanted and used the 2x4s as supports. Dad helped (of course)!
After assembling, we ended up with two matching rectangular pieces. (BTW, check out that lush garden in the background - and it looks even better now!!)
After that, it was as simple as screwing together the 4 side pieces and laying the final piece on the top. Ta Da!
