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- I made this stool for when I'm sitting at my work bench

but then when I flip it over,

it turns in to a small stepladder.

Hey everybody, this is Justin from Remodelaholic,

welcome back to the channel.

I need a stool in my shop and I need a stepladder.

So, I was gonna combine the two in to a stepladder/stool,

just like you see right here in my little

sketch-up model that I created.

It's gonna be 24 inches tall,

it's gonna be about 17 and a half inches wide,

kind of wider on top,

but I just wanted a nice, wide base,

so when I flip it over it supports me.

It's simple design that I'm gonna use

with two by fours and two by twos.

So, I decided to see how much scrap wood I could find

around the shop to build this bench

without having to go to the store.

So, I'm gonna start by cutting my seat boards,

five of 'em, at 17 and a half inches.

(saw buzzes)

Next, I'm going to cut five boards at 13 and a half inches.

These will be the boards for the steps.

Set that up there.

Put my stop over here so I can cut 'em real fast.

(saw buzzes)

Now, I'm gonna cut out the legs at 22 and a half inches.

We have another video right here on our channel

that is pretty popular,

it's a Benjamin Franklin chair,

so it's got a little bit more advanced build to it,

but it flips over and you can step right up

and you reach high things.

I took the inspiration of that video

and I wanted to create something where you just

flip over the stool and

you don't have to have any additional hardware,

it's just two by fours, two by twos and some screws.

(saw buzzes)

I ran out of two by twos, so I'm just gonna rip this down

on the table saw

and make a two by two out of it.

I'll get four pieces.

(saw buzzes)

So, now with these last three two by twos,

I'm gonna cut six pieces out of them

at 13 and a half inches long.

(saw buzzes)

And these'll be the last six pieces that I need

for the sides.

(saw buzzing)

So here I have the seat,

the board for the steps,

the boards for the side rails,

and the legs.

I'm gonna build these steps first,

and then I'll assemble the seat with these two little

braces here,

and then I'll assemble all the legs.

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(bouncy music)

So grab these two and half inch construction screws

that I'm gonna use, this one has the kind of star bit to it.

(drilling)

This is what I use the most around the shop,

so I'm just gonna use that.

I'm just gonna drill it together with screws,

it shouldn't take too long to make.

It's something that's gonna be in the shop,

and it doesn't have to look beautiful,

I just want it to function really well.

If you do want to see a nicer version of this that you

can put inside your kitchen, under a bar,

let us know in the comments below,

and if we get enough people that wanna see another version,

we'll put that video together.

(bouncy music)

(drilling)

'Kay, so there's the first step,

and the second step.

The seat is going to have a half an inch offset from the

sides,

and then I'm setting it one and three quarters of an inch

from the edge, and then I'll screw that in place.

(bouncy music)

(drilling)

So, this is the bottom of the leg here,

I'm gonna mark up four inches,

this'll be a step,

and then from this four inches,

I actually need to go 10 inches to the next step

which is 14.

So not that one, but here and here.

(clattering)

then this will be up against the seat.

Got the legs on the table,

I've got the steps right here.

The small one, the large one,

and then right here will be the seat.

So I set up a fence on the table so that when I'm

drilling, it'll be easier just to drill in this way,

and have something to push up against.

I'm using my impact driver to be able to drive this

really long screw in so it'll hold real tight.

(drilling)

(bouncy music)

Alright, so here's the stool,

the design that I modeled and sketch up,

and I realized there's a problem with it.

'Cuz I went to sit on it and the sides were starting to

buckle.

So you can see,

there's not enough support to keep this from

swaying back and forth.

So what I'm gonna do to fix that is just put a two by four

right here, in this area.

So that should be enough to keep the stool from

wanting to buckle.

So, if I could add thirteen and a half inch two by four,

screw it in in four spots,

two on each side, I think that'll keep it from moving.

(drilling)

So, looks like that added piece,

that's what it needed to give it some more support

so it didn't get out of square.

So it fits really nice underneath the bench there,

just take it out when I need it.

Now I can get to the top shelf.

Took me only a couple of hours to build,

I didn't have to buy anything because I had all this lumber

in my shop just waiting for a project.

So, here it is.

Make sure you check out this video here,

about how I'm organizing the shop.

Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next video.