Tired of looking like a sock puppet at work? You make it a point to go to work and to your meetings on time. During the course of the day, you usually forget to fix yourself properly, especially since you are preoccupied with your work and your early morning rituals.
You end up going to work with nicely-pressed hair and a refreshing scent, but your clothes look like they were picked right out of your laundry basket. You need to get an ironing board to iron out the unsightly issues from your wardrobe. Purchasing one sounds good, but why pay for one when you can actually make one over the weekend?
An ironing board is characterized by its flat surface and its long legs. These features make ironing clothes easy. You can slide clothes on the board’s surface, which gives your flat iron access to the multiple sides of your clothes. You can turn and press all your clothes until they look worthy to be placed in the clothing section of department stores.
Buying an ironing board is not a problem, since they are fairly abundant and inexpensive in shopping centers. However, you can also make one if you have all the necessary materials and carpentry skills.
Materials Used:
sheet of medium density fiberboard (can be substituted with a flat metal sheet)
4 thin metal rods
sheet of iron
mechanical drill
2 metal nuts
2 metal bolts
6 short nails
hammer
handsaw
sandpaper
thick foil
welding equipment
To make an ironing board, make sure that the fiberboard you are using can withstand the extreme heat of a flat iron’s pressing surface. Low quality fiberboards burn and become brittle easily, which is why you should do a little quality control check before selecting the fiberboard you are going to use.
Saw out the general shape of your ironing board’s surface from the fiberboard. Make sure that one end of your board’s surface is slightly pointed so that any type of clothing can easily slip onto it. Polish the ironing surface using sandpaper then wrap one side entirely with thick plastic foil.
The four metal rods will make up the legs of your ironing board. Pair them together, and then bore a hole at the middle of each using a mechanical drill. Affix a metal nut and bolt through the holes that you just bore for each pair. At this point, you can pause for a moment and check if both pairs can move freely with the nuts and bolts attached.
If they are tough to move, you can douse the nut and the bolt with oil to loosen them up. Get both leg pairs and weld each to the opposite sides of your iron sheet. Now, bore six strategically placed holes on your iron sheet to provide a connecting point between the sheet and the ironing surface.
The final procedure is to connect your board’s legs to the ironing surface. Position your ironing surface on top of the iron sheet. Ideally, the legs of your ironing board should be connected below the middle of the ironing surface. Nail the ironing surface and the iron sheet together through the holes on the iron sheet that you bore a while ago. The moment you pound in the last nail, you can pause for a few minutes to marvel at the masterpiece made by your own two hands.
Your ironing board is just as good as any of the ironing boards sold at shopping centers, and it beats them all in terms of sentimental value. How many people can say that they iron their clothes atop their own blood, sweat and tears?