Transform Your Garden With Smart Raised Sleeper Beds!

I'm impressed with the easy to understand presentation,and the lack of Rock music in the background is an extra bonus

Tip for filling raised beds cheaply. Fill the bottom with logs and branches from the garden and then smaller sticks and twigs. Then top off with your soil or compost. Us gardner's call it hugelkultur beds . As the logs and branches rot they feed the plants. And it holds moisture for longer so you don't need to water as much. You may have to top up soil after a few years. Fantastic video Stuart. Thank you for taking the time to film and edit the videos. Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪

Start your cuts on the narrow edge first. Gives more of the rafter square to run off. Then on all the wide sides you have the cut already started and gain more square to run off

Love the bevel on the edge of the sleepers, it gives it a really neat finish. It's the small details that make all the difference. Great job.

I always place my sleepers on a trench slightly wider than the sleeper and filled with a few inches of gravel.This stops damp rising up into the sleepers from the surrounding ground and also allows drainage from water/rain falling inside the sleeper bed. Much less work than laying on blocks, cheaper and the sleepers will last much longer.

Nothing but praise for this video, you have crammed a huge amount of excellent advise into the one project! The sleeper cutting description was spot on and I'm impressed by the tidy DPC lining!

When I did mine, I painted the in sides with bitumen plus all the joining faces, taking care not to get any on any of the visible faces, after 10+ years it's holding up really well, not visible signs of rot, and the plants have done really well.

Video has come at the perfect time for me, Mrs has been asking for raised beds for a while now. I’ve no excuse after watching this 😆

Lovely job! 👍🏿 Multi skilled tradesman here (20+yrs 😁) and avid DIYer all my life (57+ yrs 😔). I watch many of this type of video and can wholeheartedly endorse everything communicated in this video. The little things like checking the accuracy of your circular saw blade to plate tutorial before even attempting to make a cut are often overlooked in tutorials and it's these little things that separate the "men from the boys", as they say. Just found your channel, subscribed and intend to go through your other videos with interest as no matter how many years you've been doing this work, "every days a school day ". Finally, and fabulous production quality (impact driver synced with music, cool 😎). Keep up the top notch work brother! 👍🏿

Ah Stuart I absolutely love those raised beds. And when planted they look even more spectacular. Well done. Great idea about turning the wood 90 degrees for a cleaner cut.

I really enjoy all the little tips and tricks you show, like placing a sheet on each side of the trench when backfilling 👍👍

Those torx headed screws are excellent.. Used them in my garden - sleepers have been in 3 years with those and there is absolutely no corrosion or movement

Very smart indeed. I made one 25 years ago (not as posh as this one), it has finally fell apart through rot. Just give an idea of how long it will last. If i make another one now it should see me out.

Perfect timing because a sleeper raised bed is my next project and I have thought of cutting the thick wood as you first described which was so wrong. Thanks for the tip.👍

This was absolutely fabulous thank you !!! I totally feel like this is something I can do as I have the tools - Thanks so much !

That looks absolutely beautiful

Outstanding as usual, the flip plastic barrier is a great idea!

A lovely job! Thank you for making these tasks seem very 'doable'. Really appreciate your channel.

Just about to start building something like this in my garden. Thank you for the superb hints and tips.

Very nice work Stu, those chamfered edges just raise the aesthetic ten-fold. Lovely stuff!