Upcycling/recycling Pallets To Make A Shoe Rack

Hiya friends,

Today I have been on with another DIY project and it was pretty easy and you can all do it, all it takes is a little time a large wooden pallet some screws and a few hand tools. (I did how ever use a circular saw)

The hardest thing to do is take the pallet apart, it takes a little time and a little know how as you don't want to brake or split the wood.

I find it easier to hit the panels from the back and the nails come loose so I can get my claw hammer behind to prize them off.
Once the panels are off it is all about hitting the nails from the other side to get them out and then you have some wood, I was left with 7 good size planks that will do the trick.

The next job was to measure all the pieces to make sure that they were all the same length and width, you have to remember that pallet wood is the grot of all wood and who ever has sawed them has just done it without measuring or wood working skills.

I had to saw them down as they were cracked in places but my length of the wood measured 3ft long, I decided that I wanted the shelf to be about 2.5ft high so I cut the legs to that high.

Once I had the panels where I wanted them it was just drilling small 2mm pilot holes into the wood to make sure when screwing the wood didn't split.
I then used a screw driver to put my shelves in, there was equal distance between each shelfs, it was not a hard thing to do, I also used 2inch screws and a bit of wood glue to hold everything in place.

Now with it been pallet wood you have to make a choice, either leave the wood the way it was when it come off the pallet or sand and paint it. As this is going in my house I have made a choice to sand it down, the other problem I had was it had loads of holes in the wood from where nails and screws had been before so it was a case of filling them with filler.

Now the filler I used was for walls but if you want to save some money collect your saw dust and add a little bit of glue to it and fill in the holes, it is pretty much the easiest thing to do.

Now its just a little time to let the filler dry, once it is we will move on to stage too, which is sanding it down and giving it a paint.

I hope that you all liked this blog post and until next time