Building A Cooler Box

Remove the handles latches hinges wheels if your cooler has any and the covering of the cooler.

Building a cooler box.

We used 8 2 x 4 s. Ditch the wheels to save an additional 18. Nail 2 2 x 4 s together as pictured below to create each leg. Just regular butt joints with wood glue and brad nails.

Flip your cooler upside down and work from the bottom up. A coolbot and a regular household window a c unit lets you turn any well insulated room into a walk in cooler. First a frame is made tightly around the lid while it is in the closed position on the cooler. Once the cooler fits nice and tight you can now work on the base.

Instead of paying big money for a small commercial walk in cooler you can save thousands with this diy cooler option. He ll show you all of the steps needed to build your own cedar ice chest. Create the legs for the diy cooler box. Measure the slats to make the legs for the cooler.

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. Learn how to build a diy patio cooler cedar ice chest with diypete. Have you used an insulated lunch box or bag to pack lunch for school or a cooler to pack food for a picnic.

Cut all to the same length for desired height. You can build your own walk in cooler for produce storage at just a fraction of the cost of commercial coolers. 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. Draw a mark and make the cut.

In this project you will build your own cooler and explore how insulation can help. We re basically undressing it so we may give it a new rustic armor. Then a series of 1 4 strips were glued and nailed on top. Use a cooler you already have or pick one up at a garage sale or on craigslist to save about 29.

For more info. Please note you will need to adjust the measurements a bit to fit your exact cooler. The lid of the cooler box is nothing more than a 1 4 box.