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Good job dad, and mom and Ben are matching lol
Construction overall looks good. However, appears to be an air gap in the back where the hinges are located. Any cold air that can leak in will totally defeat the purpose. Most cold frames are bottomless and get some radiant heat that is absorbed during the day and releases overnight. Unless there is plan to provide some form of insulation or heating you may find it does not function as well as desired.
I love your honesty in this video. The not needed but very much wanted coldframe looks great.
Thanks for the video. I have been thinking of building a cold frame.
Very nice. If you leave the bottom open you can set it in your garden to raise soil temp or protect seedlings in ground if a cold snap hits. With the nails you needed the bottom for structural support. Looking forward to seeing it get used.
Treated lumber should never be used around food production because it leaches chemicals into the soil.
This size of this project and the simplicity for beginners make it an excellent choice even using free pallet wood. I hope that the viewers will notice how you joined the top section to the bottom or if they want a deeper version then simply layering another section on top using braces in the corners to join them.
I'm going to make one of those, I meant to do it last year. Thanks for posting.
I love it and I’m going to get my father in law to make me one! Lol❣️
WHAT A GREAT GUY JESSICA!!!
It's fun to be a retired Carpenter and a gardener. Lots of reasons to build stuff. And yes when you're a carpenter you magically know how to fix a hundred-year-old oil burning furnace. At least that's what my wife thinks.
When you Freecycle junk like a lot of us do it's good to have backer rod a staple gun and hot glue. For that airtight goodness.
I built one of these over the winter and put it inside my unheated greenhouse. I have a bed in the ground. Using the cold frame inside the greenhouse has kept my brassicas and lettuce alive over the winter. I'm in northern Indiana. The only time I had to add more cover was when the polar vortex came through.
That is actually very well done !!! GREAT work Miah !
Excellent video and very straightforward lol. Love seeing you guys repurpose things and be comfortable in the honesty of your process
Awesome! Just when I was starting to think about how to do this…
you might like this hotbox too….https://youtu.be/ga2snHDxoLE
Really cool and chill
Miah needs more vlogs! Jess wants and Jess said so. Perfectly valid reasons! 🙂 love you guys
You can also make these without a bottom so you can set them directly in the garden and grow things until it warms up enough. That’s what OYR does over on his channel.
I made it by myself. I used woodprix woodworking plans for that.
Nice!
Lovely video, but did I miss? How did you attach the angled pieces to the rest of the box?
Quick easy access to many projects with Woodglut plans.
Well, love the video, nice project. BUT! You mentioned that it did not fit at the end, "a gap"! Let me try to explain as I kind of always like triangles, Euclid and geometry. The window is the hypotenuse of a right triangle, as you need to have the window slanted. Think side a, side b and the hypotenuse, side c. Your window is side c, side b is how high the rise is on the north side of the cold frame. Side c, the hypotenuse is c^2=a^2+b^2. For example; your window was 20"-ish, the height was say 6"-ish, then c^2 – b^2 = a^2. c=20, a=6. therefore, b, the base of the cold frame would equal 19.08, forget the 0.08. That should do it, I'm guessing that if you made the 'square' 19" on a side, there might not be a gap. Oh, nice beard, really ! Thanks so much, blessings to you and yours. Jim