Building A Cooler Box

He ll show you all of the steps needed to build your own cedar ice chest.

Building a cooler box.

Start with the legs. Learn how to build a diy patio cooler cedar ice chest with diypete. Create the legs for the diy cooler box. First a frame is made tightly around the lid while it is in the closed position on the cooler.

Just regular butt joints with wood glue and brad nails. Flip your cooler upside down and work from the bottom up. The lid of the cooler box is nothing more than a 1 4 box. Please note you will need to adjust the measurements a bit to fit your exact cooler.

Then a series of 1 4 strips were glued and nailed on top. Measure the slats to make the legs for the cooler. Use a cooler you already have or pick one up at a garage sale or on craigslist to save about 29. In this project you will build your own cooler and explore how insulation can help.

Ditch the wheels to save an additional 18. Get the dimensions of the frame and build the base or frame for your diy cooler box and move on to adding the pallet boards on top. Remove the handles latches hinges wheels if your cooler has any and the covering of the cooler. For more info.

Once the cooler fits nice and tight you can now work on the base. Cut all to the same length for desired height. Trace an outline of the actual cooler and take a jigsaw and cut a hole so that it will be able to raise and lower the actual cooler. Have you used an insulated lunch box or bag to pack lunch for school or a cooler to pack food for a picnic.

You can build your own walk in cooler for produce storage at just a fraction of the cost of commercial coolers. Draw a mark and make the cut. Nail 2 2 x 4 s together as pictured below to create each leg. How to build a wood deck cooler to build.

You can decrease the cost of this build by using pine 2 4 s instead of cedar to save about 36. A coolbot and a regular household window a c unit lets you turn any well insulated room into a walk in cooler. We re basically undressing it so we may give it a new rustic armor.