We’re going to use screws this is a regular wood screw it’s called the chipboard screw in some countries the most basic wood screw you’re gonna find everywhere the head of this screw can you all see that this is called the posi drive head and there’s a cross and there’s an X can you see that close up I hope so if you have an electric screwdriver you need to put the right bit for the right screw this is a posi drive screw this is P Zed for positive drive and P Zed – that’s the size so just make sure that your bit fits nicely in the screw if you’re using the wrong bit maybe it fits in but not very well you’re gonna ruin the top of the screw and you won’t be able to drive the screw all the way Outdoor Screws we need to connect this board up here just like we did last time but this time we’re going to use screws there’s a gap here now to make sure that you screw your box together tightly without that gap we have to drill a hole so going to show you how to do that now battery operated drill now very fortunate because I’ve got a workshop full of tools maybe you don’t have a workshop full of tools this is a regular drill with a countersink connected to it what’s a countersink a countersink just makes room for the head of the screw so that it sits flush with your work now. Large metal corner brackets. Metal corner brackets for wood. Heavy duty metal corner brackets. Long metal corner brackets. Metal corner brackets screwfix. Decorative metal corner brackets. Corner brace brackets. L brackets.
Outdoor screws screwfix. Railway Sleeper Brackets. Screwfix railway sleeper brackets. Railway sleeper brackets b&q. If you don’t have one of these drills don’t worry about it you don’t have to have one you can use a four-millimetre drill and if you want to do a countersink use a nine millimetre a 10-millimetre drill to do the countersink we’ll go into that another day I want to go through this board and just touch the board underneath and so that the countersink makes me a place for the head of the screw here now I want to look and everything straight and again if I mark the width of the wood that going to screw into that one it’s the same width as this yeah if I mark that then I know where’s the middle I can just mark it here no fancy measuring no nothing just use a bit of scrap of the same material mark a line and then you’re going to drill in the centre don’t drill too close to the edge because you might split the wood.
So about a centimetre in half in from the edge like this and now we can drill holes and put screws wear safety glasses it’s really important now I look everything’s flush I just hold it firmly put the drill in place and you see this is what the countersink does this makes room for the head of the screw now I won’t drill all the holes going to put a screw in straightaway to hold it all in place there.
