My missus, who is knocking on a bit and has reached the stage where bending is something other people do, wants some raised beds in the garden. I believe scaffolding planks are ideal for this and can sometimes be had second hand, does anyone know if this is true and if so where abouts in the Bristol area I could get some? (I tried ringing a local scaffolding company and got the horse-laugh).
Thanks
Bob
Methinks you would be better with heavier duty stuff such as ex-railway sleepers. More commonly available too. Pete
They'll rot away quite quickly, sleepers are OK, I use 4x4 JCB front tyres/4x4 dumper tyres, with side walls cut out using a suitable saw they make nice raised planters, round rather than boring square blocks, which fuschas over hang nicely, and root crops grow in quite nicely as well.
Niel.
Someone down the road from me is having a loft conversion done, and a skip outside is filling with some nice joist offcuts. A bit far for you to come, but you get the idea...
Chris
Not if you treat 'em with creoso... ah we can't do that now can we? Time for some one to test the replacement stuff? Or visit the local timber yard/builders merchant and see what tannalised/treated stuff they have.
Sleepers, as in real ex railway ones, are the last thing you want in a garden. True they won't rot but they will ooze tar, oil and other muck, remember where trains toilets empty...
Tyres, seen that done with car sized ones before but not big ones.
Hope this isn't the same team that did that loft conversion before last week's Sarah Beeny show.
Hi,
Try a few more places, though new ones are pretty cheap. Old ones might be really knackered and covered in cement, so having old on the bottom and new on the sides may be best.
If the beds are lined with black poly stapled at the top on the inside, with holes between the planks in the bottom they should last a lot longer. In any case a few coats of wood preserver with plenty on any end grain would help.
Taking the end banding off and doing some simple noggin joints would look fairly good. If the beds are long some galvanised banding between the sides will stop them bowing out, wrapped with some plastic to keep the soil off them.
cheers, Pete.
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Try the hire companies, they stop using them when they twist or split, don't know about them being ideal though, they will rot
Cost a fortune!
Ok I've been spoiled, I've used new sleepers, Romsey rec. have some IIRC.
Little bro did one with a terex earth mover tyre as a talking point for a tyre specialist a couple of years ago, not a his office though at his home! Some schools also have the back tyres of JCBs (with intact sidewalls) as they make nice islands on hard playgrounds. Niel.
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