Scaffold Board Alcove Shelves

0:04 hello I'm Matt and welcome to badger workshop so after getting that mantle put up last week I thought I better sort out some other things in the living room as you can see I've got these copper pipes in the alcove that need boxing in I also have piles of books stacked up in my bedroom so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone box in these pipes and make some shelves my books I work out how deep I want the shelves to be and then I need to remove some skirting board so I can sit flush with the wall I've got this little Japanese pour saw and it's really handy for making small cups like this but I cut all the way through I get a crowbar and then just leave way off the wall it doesn't matter if he leaves a bit of a mess behind because that's already covered up what

0:53 I've decided to make the bookcase out of is some Scapa boards they're really strong cheap and I like the kind of industrial chunky look they come with metal bands at the ends stopping or splitting so the first thing is to get them removed the boards I've gone for 3.6 meters long just because they want special offer at the time but it means I had to get them delivered because there's no way they're gonna fit my car because they're so long it also makes it a bit tricky to get them in and work in the workshop so I've just pulled the evolution saw out onto the patio to do this I first mark out how high I want the shelves to be and these are about two and a half meters and in my living room that's going to stretch from the floorboards and up to the cornice as

1:40 these are such long bores they need to supporting at the ends so I managed to find some bricks to stick unto them and that just hold it upright I start by cutting out the up lights the two and a half meter long bits and then I can cut out all the shells and this used up all the other bits of scaffold board I had in the garage I'm happy for this project to look a bit rustic but everything did need a sand down before putting it together when I finally had all the bits sanded I could start getting it put together I started with the two bits that didn't involve any thinking the top and the bottom that could just get screwed in place then I go measure my tallest book and cut a scrap scaffold board that hot I can get

2:30 this put in place and then but the first shelf up against it I can then get some screws in from one side to hold in place move that little block of wood to the other side push it up against and then get some more screws in the hole of this unit is just gonna get held together with screws because it's going in an alcove you'll never see them and it makes a job like this incredibly quick I got a couple of shelves putting that that first height and then I'm going to measures my next biggest books and cut the Shelf down or the spacer down to that I could then get some more shelves put in but now at this reduced spacing I then went into this one more time so I had shelves of three different spacings

3:23 now when I've measured this up I wanted it to be a tight fit so they would box in the pipes and go straight after that cornice but actually trying to maneuver in I was worried for a second it wouldn't fit but it did just again it pushed in to the level I wanted and then I got some screws through the base into the floorboards a lil bit of scrap wood and put an l-shaped bracket on it this is then getting me attach the underside of the top shelf and it could be tied into the wall so now the whole thing is a secure at the top and the bottom and is going nowhere Tom I lost books in place you'll never see this bracket the bookcase is now hiding all

4:13 those pipes from the side we can still see them from the front so I need a capping piece I've got a bit of wood that would do this I need to cut out the bottom the shape of the skirting board so can slide into place so I just fall around a scrap piece and then I can get that cut out with a jigsaw this bit of wood now can get glued on to the front of the bookcase I want a bead of just some PVA down and get it put in place and get some clamps tightened up all the way down it but

5:03 I've got enough clamps on I'll leave it all to dry for a couple of hours then they can come off and I can start it in the books put in place I thought this was gonna be quite a big bookcase and leave me a few shelves spare but actually I managed to fill it up completely one last finishing touch put on one of the clip lamps that I used to have in the workshop on the top so that's it all done thanks for watching thanks to my patreon and please subscribe for more videos