It's getting cozy outside: through wood and clinker
As soon as the posts with the retaining walls are immovably anchored in the ground, the cavity between the wall and the embankment can be filled with sand. After compacting, the concrete slabs are laid. They are flush with the posts at the top.
The edge of clinker bricks serves to beautify and at the same time provides the opportunity, to lay a footbridge made of wood next to it (s. text box on side 10). The mortar takes care of that, that there is a gap between the bricks and the post. The same gap should be observed when inserting the paneling.
Is the fairing attached?, you can take measurements for the bank.
Lay underground cables in good time
An outside socket directly at the seat is practical in many situations. Keep that in mind, before building walls, and immediately lay an underground cable to the house. Later it's twice as much work.
An edge strip made of red-colored paving bricks is built onto the pavement slabs as the upper end of the supporting walls using ready-made mortar. The clinker bricks must be cut for the corners. A special saw works better than using a hammer or angle grinder. It is much easier to cut the boards for cladding the slope reinforcement: best with a chop saw. The edges of all visible wood should be chamfered. You can do this with a planer or a belt sander. The cladding boards are screwed onto a lath frame. The frame width corresponds exactly to the post spacing. The frame is attached to the side of the post. The two outer cladding boards are therefore only screwed on later.
How to build the bench
For the bench seat
which the beams are cut at an angle at one end. When taking measurements, take the joints into account!
The legs of the bench are built from three pieces of beam each. The beams of the seat are screwed onto this at even intervals. In the corner the beams are only half supported by the legs. The remainder of the edition is used for the fitted pieces.
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