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Building Sandbox - Where would you go from here?
Apologies for terrible drawing stop the picture. Anyhow, I dug down on side closest to the swing set so that I can be two 2x (7") down to earth. It's on a slope so in addition to adding the soil to other side, I have some round stone I'll add to gain the height I need on that side. There is a box / walls that rise above the earth (wraps around the swing posts) so on left side it will be there 2x4s or 9" tall. The whole thing is 14' by 5' for sand. If it's 6" or so in sand, we are talking 100 cubic feet in sand roughly. I'm buying $5 play sand bags and they are half a cubic foot so it's $250 in damn sand! Anyhow... My biggest issue is the approach to supporting the left side where the natural grade is way lower. Add soil and gradually slope to grade below the wood on left side. I'd likely just bury (mostly) some sort of stscked stone supports like I have there now. Those were just temporary to see how it would work once level. Actually just add a block wall beneath the wood for it to rest. It would be 3 high or about 16" in that back corner. Less elsewhere. I have extra blocks that I've taken down elsewhere. The sandbox is offset because the left side will be a 1' wide garden bed. The section on the right side will be a seat. I will run some 2x4 supports tying the 2 boxes together and then 1x material across. I have yet to add the vertical pieces that will tie the boxes together and also be driven down into the ground a bit. That will hopefully tie everything together. I'll also likely screw the top box that's wrapping around the swing posts into the swing posts. I'm hoping the sandbox further anchors (it does have anchors installed) the swingset. Thoughts? Advice? submitted by /u/JayReddt [link] [comments]
| | Apologies for terrible drawing stop the picture. Anyhow, I dug down on side closest to the swing set so that I can be two 2x (7") down to earth. It's on a slope so in addition to adding the soil to other side, I have some round stone I'll add to gain the height I need on that side. There is a box / walls that rise above the earth (wraps around the swing posts) so on left side it will be there 2x4s or 9" tall. The whole thing is 14' by 5' for sand. If it's 6" or so in sand, we are talking 100 cubic feet in sand roughly. I'm buying $5 play sand bags and they are half a cubic foot so it's $250 in damn sand! Anyhow... My biggest issue is the approach to supporting the left side where the natural grade is way lower.
The sandbox is offset because the left side will be a 1' wide garden bed. The section on the right side will be a seat. I will run some 2x4 supports tying the 2 boxes together and then 1x material across. I have yet to add the vertical pieces that will tie the boxes together and also be driven down into the ground a bit. That will hopefully tie everything together. I'll also likely screw the top box that's wrapping around the swing posts into the swing posts. I'm hoping the sandbox further anchors (it does have anchors installed) the swingset. Thoughts? Advice? [link] [comments] |
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