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DIY Freestanding Wall - workshop improvement project

It'S always a good day when you're in the workshop, I made this workbench, which is integral part of a tool bench area where I wanted to have a backdrop where I can put my tools on. I thought I would make a wall as kind of freestanding that'll. Be attached to this workbench, I'm gon na go ahead and get started on the framing. This is the first wall I have ever framed as I died, lay out the wood first, just to see what it is. Gon na look like I decided to go with 24 inch studs. I decided to save a little bit of money and use two by threes instead of two by fours for this project, and this wall would have to be only as tall as my garage door opened. So I to cut off a few inches from each of the upright studs. This is everything woodworking you want to make sure things are square and at the right angle, so that way in the end, they'll be plumb. I made sure to take my time when joining these pieces. With these nails, I found that the frame itself wasn't sturdy enough, based on the two by threes, would have liked to go back to get two by fours, but instead I decided to just add some extra wood to particular areas on the frame in order to give Higher joining abilities, some other mine glued a little bit together, just to ensure that they would work well, you see there, the center ones, there's these extra pieces of 2x3 in order to give an additional area to nail onto. As I said, this is actually the first time I've done this, and I only have a little bit of experience with watching YouTube videos on the subject matter, so we'll just have to see how it turns out. Well, this is a free-standing wall. It does need some sort of support. The support will come from this workbench, which has been given some extra wood for weight. Now that that wood has been joined to that front, end go ahead and lift the frame into position to check its fit and location. Now I want to make sure that my frame was plumb and level on all angles. So that way it didn't look weird when the project got finished and then I find it important to check the plumb and level on every step. So I went ahead and secured it with the fastener to the bench and checked his plumb and level with it plumb and level. I can now attach the paneling to this frame. I use this quarter inch plywood. https://felixfurniture.com/best-sawzall-reviews/ was meant for flooring. The reason I used, that was because it was less expensive than regular quarter-inch plywood. I found that it worked well and after mounting it to the frame I cut it to size with my circular saw. This frame is 14 feet wide, so it's gon na take three and a half sheets of this plywood to cover one side of the frame. It'S debatable as to whether I will cover the other side. I don't have another purpose for it, yet it can be fun to do some photography or video on a clean wall. This was a perfect use of the circular saw jig. Cutting these sheets of plywood on a table saw would have been very difficult, and then here I had to use some freestyle circular saw cutting, because my jig is into this long. I didn't feel like making a jig just for cutting a seven and a half foot sheet with a little help. I stood this wall up and fastened it to that workbench. I'M gon na, take it down and give it a coat of white paint. Now I could have just painted it in place, but then I'd have to worry about hitting the workbench with white paint and I didn't feel like masking anything off. So, let's just disconnect it lay it on the ground and paint it that way. I use this nice pure white with a satin finish, which I purchased at Home Depot. I used three coats in order to hide the woodgrain. You only have a couple hours between each coat to dry and then I began reassembly for the final time. At least, I think it's the final time big point of this project was to make the shop a little bit more camera friendly, as well as to add some tool. Storage options on that wall later on,
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