Building A Cooler Box

Please note you will need to adjust the measurements a bit to fit your exact cooler.

Building a cooler box.

Use a cooler you already have or pick one up at a garage sale or on craigslist to save about 29. Just regular butt joints with wood glue and brad nails. Remove the handles latches hinges wheels if your cooler has any and the covering of the cooler. Start with the legs.

You can decrease the cost of this build by using pine 2 4 s instead of cedar to save about 36. How to build a wood deck cooler to build. Draw a mark and make the cut. Have you used an insulated lunch box or bag to pack lunch for school or a cooler to pack food for a picnic.

We used 8 2 x 4 s. We re basically undressing it so we may give it a new rustic armor. Create the legs for the diy cooler box. Flip your cooler upside down and work from the bottom up.

He ll show you all of the steps needed to build your own cedar ice chest. Measure the slats to make the legs for the cooler. Two 1 4 strips in front and in back with a smaller filler piece in the middle. For more info.

Once the cooler fits nice and tight you can now work on the base. First a frame is made tightly around the lid while it is in the closed position on the cooler. Cut all to the same length for desired height. 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.

A coolbot and a regular household window a c unit lets you turn any well insulated room into a walk in cooler. In this project you will build your own cooler and explore how insulation can help. 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. You can build your own walk in cooler for produce storage at just a fraction of the cost of commercial coolers.

Then a series of 1 4 strips were glued and nailed on top. Nail 2 2 x 4 s together as pictured below to create each leg. Ditch the wheels to save an additional 18.