**Building a Storage Cabinet for Outdoor Tools and Chemicals**

To start this project, I decided to hold the pieces down and then use a lot of brads to hold them in place while the glue dried. The real work came from using pressure-treated lumber, but since I was going to paint it, I chose not to use that option. Instead, I pulled out my paint sprayer and got started.

I added several pieces at the top and bottom, as well as one piece right in the center of the cabinet. To ensure everything fit together properly, I made sure the gaps between the doors, sides, and top/bottom were even. This required laying the cabinet on its back and placing the doors in place to get them evenly spaced.

Next, I added hinges and a simple latch to the center of these doors. As this cabinet is going to be used for storing hazardous materials such as chemicals and pool supplies, I wanted to make sure it was secure and could be locked when needed. The type of latch I chose is designed to work with locks, which will keep unwanted access to the contents.

One reason I made this cabinet so tall was to have space in the bottom for storing yard tools like rakes and shovels. To accommodate this, I installed several different hangers that can hold various items. As I add more stuff to the cabinet, I may need to adjust these arrangements.

To provide a safe working area, the top shelves of the cabinet will be used for storing dangerous chemicals. This is an important consideration when building a storage unit for hazardous materials.

While this project was relatively simple, it did require several steps and tools. Having a table saw and miter saw would have made the process faster, but it's still possible to complete with just a circular saw and drill if necessary. For now, I have plans available on my website that include detailed instructions for building this storage cabinet.

One thing I haven't completed yet is mounting the cabinet to the wall. Given its size and weight, this was an important consideration to prevent accidents from happening. To achieve this, I plan to use a big eyelet and attach it to the 2x4 at the top of the cabinet, then tie it to the wall with a strap. Since my current tools do not have tapcon screws or any other suitable material for drilling into brick, I need to make a trip to the store first.

Overall, this project has provided me with a valuable storage unit that keeps hazardous materials and outdoor equipment out of reach of children while providing easy access to essential tools.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey I'm Bob and I like to make stuff today we're going to make a huge outdoor storage cabinet for this project I intentionally used lumber that it was really easy to come by at any big box store so this entire thing is made out of 2x4s 1x4s and/ in plywood I cut all the 2x4s to length using a speed square to make sure that it was square and a circular saw if you've got a miter saw that'll make it even faster once I had all these pieces cut I start Ed joining up the frames and I did that with a pocket hole jig every time I use pocket holes there are certain people that complain about them but the fact of the matter is they're fast they're simple and they're usually strong enough they don't have to hold up the world they just have to hold a cabinet together so I use pocket holes to attach the outside pieces of the frames I made two frames and then connected those frames together notice I'm putting glue on the in Grain here which doesn't do a whole lot but it also certainly does not hurt I got both of the outside frames put together together and then had to connect them to each other I screwed on some longer pieces of 2x4 just to connect the two frames together and I used a scrap piece of/ in plywood as a spacer on the back there's going to be a panel that goes there and so this gives me the location of where the frame needs to be the placement of these 2x4s was a little bit different from end to end the top front actually had it all the way up against the front and that's because that's the one that's going to be seen the rest of them will be covered with plywood the 2x4s had a little bit of Bend in them so it looked looked really out of whack until I got the top frame put on and everything screwed together once the glue and screws were in place it started to square up pretty nicely after I got all of these 2x4s screwed in then it was time to add the sheeting I stood this thing up to see how tall it was it was pretty huge to put on the bottom panel I needed to put in a few more 2x4s to support the weight of anything that I put on the bottom shelf so I put those in place and had to knock them in because the frame was nice and tight I screwed those in from the back and then from the front I used an edge guide on my circular saw to cut down the full sheets into more reasonable size panels if you have a table saw that's much easier but mine's kind of hard to take outside this made it so that I could cut down the pieces one by one to fit them into place I put on the back panel and just screwed it into the 2x4s along the top and the bottom this held it in place just fine even though it was a little floppy in the middle that'll get tightened up later on I cut down a few more panels to fit into the sides these are pretty basic the only difference was that I needed a notch out to go around the two fours I use my speed square just to Mark out these and then cut them out with a jigsaw this extra little bit on the end helped it to drop down inside the frame to make sure that there was a connection at the top and the bottom this held the panel in place and I just added some screws into the back of the 2x4s to hold them there I put the other side in the exact same way and every panel that you add to this makes it stronger and more rigid I cut down a couple of more panels one went on the bottom I just screwed this straight down through the top into the 2x4s below then I had to cut down some CLE out of some 1x4 material and these are going to hold the shelves in place I could have also done this outside but it's much easier with a miter saw on a table saw so I just came in to cut them down to length and then cut them down to width sorry about the blurry shot here I think the dog distracted me when I was shooting this I measured up on one side and made a mark and then I used the level to transfer that line all around to all three sides I added some glue line these up with my marks and then nailed them in place to dry these aren't going to hold a ton of weight so I wasn't too worried about them being overly strong my oldest son was outside and asked if he could help so of course I said yes it's awesome cuz usually they're at school when I'm working so this was a great time for us to work on something together and a relatively safe part of the project anytime you have the chance to get one of your kids working on something with you take advantage of it I'm sure glad that I did once we got these cleats up I added a piece of plywood as the shelf and then another piece of 1x4 on the front and just Ed some glue and nails to hold it in place did the same thing for the other shelf as well I cut down another piece of plywood to use for the top this had a simple frame around it that I cut with the miter saw I used some 1x4s cut down 45° angles on four pieces that fit on the perimeter then took them to the table saw to cut them down to width I use some glue and Brads to hold this around the panel now this isn't going to get any direct water so I wasn't too worried about it being watertight but you could always seal up these gaps if you really wanted to again with the focus sorry I dropped this thing on and hammered it into place and it was a nice tight fit the last two panels to cut were the doors again I Ed The Edge guide to cut down two similar panels and then laid them out on my big table to add the trim the trim here is mostly for decoration but it will help counteract some of the bending that's bound to happen with plywood the thicker plywood you get the less you have to worry about this but with half in sometimes it happens I use quite a bit of glue to hold these pieces down and then a whole lot of Brads to hold them in place while they dried the glue is what really does the work though I added a couple of more pieces at the top and the bottom and then one piece right in the center I decided not to use pressure treated lumber for this project because I knew I was going to paint it so I pulled the paint sprayer and went to work huge thanks to Blue Apron for sponsoring this video they have a really awesome meal service with great fresh food that they send out every week the first 50 viewers will get three meals off their order for free they've got tons of recipes and they're always adding new ones and you can see here I was making some shrimp at tfet which is something I've never made before you get a refrigerated package with all of the ingredients precisely measured so there's no waste you get nothing that you don't need it's fantastic we get the family plan but they've also got a two-person plan if you don't need quite that much food you always get free shipping there's tons of different recipes and you can cancel it at any time I was really happy that I was able to cook this meal thanks to Blue Apron and my kids actually liked it too go check them out there's a link down in the description tell you everything you need to know thanks Blue Apron I sprayed what I could but I had to roll the doors because I didn't really have another way to prop them up I used some outdoor paint with some primer built in so really one coat was pretty good I laid the the cabinet on its back and laid the doors in place because of how big this thing is that just made the most sense it also helped me make sure that the gaps between the doors between the sides and the top and the bottom were all even once I got everything evenly spaced I just added some hinges I added a simple latch to the center of these doors this type of latch is made to use with a lock and that's because I'm going to have power tools in here and a bunch of pool chemicals and dangerous stuff so I want to make sure that I keep it locked up so the kids can't get in there and mess with anything the reason I made this C it so tall was so that I could hang some yard tools in the bottom I put in several different hangers to hold different things and I'll probably change that over time as I add more stuff to the cabinet the top shelves are for Dangerous chemicals and it closes up pretty nicely I'm really happy with how it turned out and it's going to be super useful overall this is a relatively simple project there's nothing really complex about the build it's just a lot of steps if you have a table saw and a miter saw that will make it faster for sure but you could do this entire thing with a circular saw and a drill if that's all you've got I will have plans for this available on my site if you're interested in making one and if you decide that you don't need something this tall because it is very very tall then you could easily just change the height Dimensions to make the whole thing a little bit shorter if you don't need a space at the bottom that's large enough to hold things like rakes and shovels you could either add a bunch of shelves or you could just change the overall height to bring the whole thing down a little bit lower one thing I have not done on this yet that I will do is mount it to the wall something this big and this heavy could be very dangerous if it fell over onto a child and I don't know what the situation would be that that would cause it to fall over but better safe than sorry I need to go to the store get a big eyelet then I'm going to put it into the 2x4 that's at the top of this thing and then tie it to the wall with a strap I can't do that yet because I don't have any tapcon screws or anything like that to be able to drill into the brick so I have to go get that so that I can finish it up like I said simple project gives me a ton of storage and helps me get any dangerous chemicals and pool stuff up out of the way out of the reach of the kids and makes it really easy for me to get to the rake so that they can rake the leaves once again I have plans for this on my site there'll be a link right up there in the card that you can go check that out I've got lots of other videos that you might be interested in as well all sorts of different stuff and don't forget to subscribe so you never miss any of the new videos that's it for this one guys thanks for watching I'll see you next time outdoor storage cabinethey I'm Bob and I like to make stuff today we're going to make a huge outdoor storage cabinet for this project I intentionally used lumber that it was really easy to come by at any big box store so this entire thing is made out of 2x4s 1x4s and/ in plywood I cut all the 2x4s to length using a speed square to make sure that it was square and a circular saw if you've got a miter saw that'll make it even faster once I had all these pieces cut I start Ed joining up the frames and I did that with a pocket hole jig every time I use pocket holes there are certain people that complain about them but the fact of the matter is they're fast they're simple and they're usually strong enough they don't have to hold up the world they just have to hold a cabinet together so I use pocket holes to attach the outside pieces of the frames I made two frames and then connected those frames together notice I'm putting glue on the in Grain here which doesn't do a whole lot but it also certainly does not hurt I got both of the outside frames put together together and then had to connect them to each other I screwed on some longer pieces of 2x4 just to connect the two frames together and I used a scrap piece of/ in plywood as a spacer on the back there's going to be a panel that goes there and so this gives me the location of where the frame needs to be the placement of these 2x4s was a little bit different from end to end the top front actually had it all the way up against the front and that's because that's the one that's going to be seen the rest of them will be covered with plywood the 2x4s had a little bit of Bend in them so it looked looked really out of whack until I got the top frame put on and everything screwed together once the glue and screws were in place it started to square up pretty nicely after I got all of these 2x4s screwed in then it was time to add the sheeting I stood this thing up to see how tall it was it was pretty huge to put on the bottom panel I needed to put in a few more 2x4s to support the weight of anything that I put on the bottom shelf so I put those in place and had to knock them in because the frame was nice and tight I screwed those in from the back and then from the front I used an edge guide on my circular saw to cut down the full sheets into more reasonable size panels if you have a table saw that's much easier but mine's kind of hard to take outside this made it so that I could cut down the pieces one by one to fit them into place I put on the back panel and just screwed it into the 2x4s along the top and the bottom this held it in place just fine even though it was a little floppy in the middle that'll get tightened up later on I cut down a few more panels to fit into the sides these are pretty basic the only difference was that I needed a notch out to go around the two fours I use my speed square just to Mark out these and then cut them out with a jigsaw this extra little bit on the end helped it to drop down inside the frame to make sure that there was a connection at the top and the bottom this held the panel in place and I just added some screws into the back of the 2x4s to hold them there I put the other side in the exact same way and every panel that you add to this makes it stronger and more rigid I cut down a couple of more panels one went on the bottom I just screwed this straight down through the top into the 2x4s below then I had to cut down some CLE out of some 1x4 material and these are going to hold the shelves in place I could have also done this outside but it's much easier with a miter saw on a table saw so I just came in to cut them down to length and then cut them down to width sorry about the blurry shot here I think the dog distracted me when I was shooting this I measured up on one side and made a mark and then I used the level to transfer that line all around to all three sides I added some glue line these up with my marks and then nailed them in place to dry these aren't going to hold a ton of weight so I wasn't too worried about them being overly strong my oldest son was outside and asked if he could help so of course I said yes it's awesome cuz usually they're at school when I'm working so this was a great time for us to work on something together and a relatively safe part of the project anytime you have the chance to get one of your kids working on something with you take advantage of it I'm sure glad that I did once we got these cleats up I added a piece of plywood as the shelf and then another piece of 1x4 on the front and just Ed some glue and nails to hold it in place did the same thing for the other shelf as well I cut down another piece of plywood to use for the top this had a simple frame around it that I cut with the miter saw I used some 1x4s cut down 45° angles on four pieces that fit on the perimeter then took them to the table saw to cut them down to width I use some glue and Brads to hold this around the panel now this isn't going to get any direct water so I wasn't too worried about it being watertight but you could always seal up these gaps if you really wanted to again with the focus sorry I dropped this thing on and hammered it into place and it was a nice tight fit the last two panels to cut were the doors again I Ed The Edge guide to cut down two similar panels and then laid them out on my big table to add the trim the trim here is mostly for decoration but it will help counteract some of the bending that's bound to happen with plywood the thicker plywood you get the less you have to worry about this but with half in sometimes it happens I use quite a bit of glue to hold these pieces down and then a whole lot of Brads to hold them in place while they dried the glue is what really does the work though I added a couple of more pieces at the top and the bottom and then one piece right in the center I decided not to use pressure treated lumber for this project because I knew I was going to paint it so I pulled the paint sprayer and went to work huge thanks to Blue Apron for sponsoring this video they have a really awesome meal service with great fresh food that they send out every week the first 50 viewers will get three meals off their order for free they've got tons of recipes and they're always adding new ones and you can see here I was making some shrimp at tfet which is something I've never made before you get a refrigerated package with all of the ingredients precisely measured so there's no waste you get nothing that you don't need it's fantastic we get the family plan but they've also got a two-person plan if you don't need quite that much food you always get free shipping there's tons of different recipes and you can cancel it at any time I was really happy that I was able to cook this meal thanks to Blue Apron and my kids actually liked it too go check them out there's a link down in the description tell you everything you need to know thanks Blue Apron I sprayed what I could but I had to roll the doors because I didn't really have another way to prop them up I used some outdoor paint with some primer built in so really one coat was pretty good I laid the the cabinet on its back and laid the doors in place because of how big this thing is that just made the most sense it also helped me make sure that the gaps between the doors between the sides and the top and the bottom were all even once I got everything evenly spaced I just added some hinges I added a simple latch to the center of these doors this type of latch is made to use with a lock and that's because I'm going to have power tools in here and a bunch of pool chemicals and dangerous stuff so I want to make sure that I keep it locked up so the kids can't get in there and mess with anything the reason I made this C it so tall was so that I could hang some yard tools in the bottom I put in several different hangers to hold different things and I'll probably change that over time as I add more stuff to the cabinet the top shelves are for Dangerous chemicals and it closes up pretty nicely I'm really happy with how it turned out and it's going to be super useful overall this is a relatively simple project there's nothing really complex about the build it's just a lot of steps if you have a table saw and a miter saw that will make it faster for sure but you could do this entire thing with a circular saw and a drill if that's all you've got I will have plans for this available on my site if you're interested in making one and if you decide that you don't need something this tall because it is very very tall then you could easily just change the height Dimensions to make the whole thing a little bit shorter if you don't need a space at the bottom that's large enough to hold things like rakes and shovels you could either add a bunch of shelves or you could just change the overall height to bring the whole thing down a little bit lower one thing I have not done on this yet that I will do is mount it to the wall something this big and this heavy could be very dangerous if it fell over onto a child and I don't know what the situation would be that that would cause it to fall over but better safe than sorry I need to go to the store get a big eyelet then I'm going to put it into the 2x4 that's at the top of this thing and then tie it to the wall with a strap I can't do that yet because I don't have any tapcon screws or anything like that to be able to drill into the brick so I have to go get that so that I can finish it up like I said simple project gives me a ton of storage and helps me get any dangerous chemicals and pool stuff up out of the way out of the reach of the kids and makes it really easy for me to get to the rake so that they can rake the leaves once again I have plans for this on my site there'll be a link right up there in the card that you can go check that out I've got lots of other videos that you might be interested in as well all sorts of different stuff and don't forget to subscribe so you never miss any of the new videos that's it for this one guys thanks for watching I'll see you next time outdoor storage cabinet\n"