DIY Concrete Garden Bench - Video

In this series, we are making a faux stone garden bench out of concrete and stryofoam. Because of the stryofoam core of this bench, it will be quite lightweight compared to other concrete seating. It will be durable and able to weather outside in all climate conditions (provided that you
reapply the concrete sealer every few years).

Styrofoam sheets, or big styrofoam chunks are the perfect base to use
for making lightweight, realistic looking artificial rocks in any size, including this bench. Often you can find recycled or waste styrofoam products which you can repurpose for artificial rocks made from foam, and keep this non-biodegradable material out of the landfills. In fact, getting rid of old waste styrofoam is so difficult and costly that some builders and contractors might even pay you to take left over foam chunks off their hands. This is ideal since the vast majority of the cost to build a bench like this could be the styrofoam if buying it from a hardware store. The steel and mortar used to make this is very minimal by comparison - just a few dollars really.

Through this tutorial process you will follow along step by step as we make the garden bench seating. This will include a steel armature, concrete mix design, sculpting and texturing the concrete, as well as finishing details such as scraping, sanding, multi-stage paint and then
a concrete sealer application layer. Lots of great information contained within for people new to working with concrete and looking to start making their own artificial rock bench.

Episode 1 - https://youtu.be/QpGQiFMJtdk

Episode 2 - Coming Friday, October 13

Episode 3 - Coming Friday, October 20

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