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Ben Warr-Barnes, 41, from Cheshire, has used his lockdown downtime to build his Staffordshire Bull Terrier Pixie an amazing new house.
And the kennel cost him nothing at all as he used everything from leftover tiles to an old dining table as materials for the project.
‘I came up with the idea because the shed that doubled up as a dog kennel was old and an eyesore,’ the dad-of-two told money-saving community LatestDeals.co.uk.
‘Going from working 40 plus hours a week as a window installer to doing nothing, I needed something to do with what I had already around in the van and old shed.
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‘The kennel evolved as I built it.’
The floor, or base, is an old dining table raised up on sleeper offcuts to keep it away from rain and damp.
The structure is old uPVC window frames without the glass. The inside was plywood lined again from offcuts from past jobs.
Ben added: ‘For the outside, I cladded with feather edge cladding left over from a fence repair.
‘The roof is Tapco tiles that were spare from the last conservatory roof conversion I did for work.’
Ben says a project like this is an ideal way to pass the time under lockdown.
‘I think it turned out better than I thought it would,’ he adds.
‘I enjoyed doing it and think it helped me cope with staying home because I’m usually an active person so to go to doing nothing is hard.
‘For anyone wanting to do it, I just say have a go. Instead of an old window, you could use pallets for the structure, and for the roof, you could just use roofing felt, as long as it’s solid and waterproof.
‘It cost me nothing as I already had the stuff – and Pixie loves her new house!’
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source https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/10/dad-makes-brilliant-dog-kennel-using-leftover-materials-old-window-frames-dining-tables-12681172/
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