How to Build a Rain Barrel - This Old House

Follow along as This Old House contributor Christopher Beidel, owner of Pernt, a handmade-furniture company in Brooklyn, New York, leads you through the simple steps it takes to green up your garden.
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Shopping List for How to Build a Rain Barrel:
- 1x6. Get 10 treated 8-footers for the slats, lid, and floor.
- 5/4x4. Get three treated 8-footers for the interior battens.
- 1x4. Get one treated 8-footer for the decorative batten.
- 1x3. Get two treated 8-footers for the decorative battens.
- 4x4. Get one treated 6-footer.
- 1_-, 1_-, 2-inch deck screws
- door-pull handle
- square plastic trash bin
- downspout diverter kit
- _-inch stainless-steel pan-head screws to secure the landscape fabric.
- landscape fabric or window screening
Tools for How to Build a Rain Barrel:
- miter saw
- bar clamps
- drill/driver
- _-by-3-inch drill bit
- combination square
- kit-supplied hole saws
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