Cure for a Termite Infested Trunk
by
ScavengerChic
(IC: blogger)
When my sister and I first saw this trunk at a flea market this past summer, this is what we saw. It was marked $3.00, FIRM…as if we were going to try to talk him down from $3.00.
Just look at that chippy paint. Was that some kind of mistake? Was it supposed to be $30.00? Was the decimal point in the wrong spot?
And then we looked inside. OK, this could be a problem. Termites had eaten a great deal of the bottom and they had slowly been working their way up the sides.
I had high hopes of saving some of the boards that make up the bottom trim but by the time I got the trim pieces off the bottom I knew the entire bottom would have to go.
I needed just a few supplies…a 2’x4′ piece of thin plywood, 2 deck spindles and some heavy duty construction adhesive.
I was originally going to use 2 pieces of wood…one to act at the original layer of the trunk and the other to be the trim…but once I saw how well the 2×4 fit, I couldn’t use anything else. It was perfect. Corners are nailed and glued. Screws attach the 2×4 to the spindles and construction adhesive to the plywood.
Inserted a pallet wood bottom.
These feet were from another thrift store find. They were painted with white chalk paint, edges sanded then waxed.
Since I started with pictures of the bottom of the trunk, I wanted to finish with a picture of his underside…not a termite to be found!
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Published November 2nd, 2016 11:19 AM
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