From apartment therapy learn how to build a freestanding deck from repurposed pallet wood.
Floating deck pallets.
Concrete half blocks 8 inches x 8 inches x 6 inches.
Attach the pallets at the corners by predrilling two pilot holes through the side of the stringer that is facing you at a 60 degree angle and into the side of the stringer on the adjoining pallet.
These pallets were made to hold 1000 1200 pounds of weight they were made at a pallet manufacturer.
Building an easy pallet deck.
If you need a deck but have no means to spend money on it and basically no skills to build one you came to the right place.
Pallets we bought ours at a local pallet manufacturer they are 48 inches x 48 inches 2 way barrel pallets note.
The second pallet is set at a 90 degree angle to the first making a checkerboard pattern.
All you need is 55 gallon plastic barrels pallets and a few other basics to get started.
Here is a great tutorial on how to build a diy floating deck from home depot.
How to build a floating deck.
Some have the wood far apart.
There are different kinds of pallets.
It s closer to a pontoon raft making it a floating deck if we re being generous.
Get your measurements and pallets.
From instructables this simple diy floating deck tutorial is one of my favorites because it s so basic i think even beginning diy ers could do it.
Wood pallet deck supplies.
The stringers are the boards between the top and bottom deck boards.
Technically this project isn t a deck.
Some have better quality wood than others.
First i used eight pallets for the base of this pallet deck and arranged them around a brick fire pit and walkway we already put in a while back.
It only used around 25 pallets and i only had to spend about 40 bucks for supplies.