10ft Reclaimed Scaffold Boards Used to Create a Garden Planter in Surrey

It’s always good to see where our scaffold boards end up, particularly when customers send us photographs of their finished projects.

A customer in Surrey recently ordered 7 x 10ft reclaimed scaffold boards to create a large planter in their garden.

Once the work was complete, they kindly sent us a photograph showing how the boards were used.

Building an L-Shaped Garden Planter

The reclaimed boards were used to create an L-shaped raised planting area around the edge of an existing gravelled section of the garden.

As you can see in the customer’s photograph, the boards are positioned two boards high and supported with timber posts to form the sides of the planter.

The L-shaped design follows the existing garden layout, running alongside the fence before continuing across the back of the gravelled area towards the steps.

Rather than completely changing this part of the garden, the customer has used the boards to define a new planting space within the layout they already had.

Using Reclaimed Boards in the Garden

For this garden project, the customer ordered seven timber lengths from our 10ft reclaimed scaffold boards range to create the wooden planter.

Because reclaimed boards have been used before, they naturally vary in appearance, including differences in colour, grain, and marks from their working life.

That character can work particularly well for outdoor projects where a perfectly uniform finish isn’t necessarily required.

In this garden, the timber also sits naturally alongside the existing wooden fencing, established plants and other outdoor features.

A New Use for Seven Reclaimed Boards

Only seven 10ft boards were supplied for this project, with the customer cutting and arranging the timber to suit the planter’s shape.

The finished structure is a good example of reclaimed scaffold boards being given a completely different purpose once their original working life is over.

We’d like to thank our customer in Surrey for sending us the photograph and allowing us to share what they created.

Project Details

Product: Reclaimed scaffold boards
Board length: 10ft
Quantity supplied: 7 boards
Used for: L-shaped garden planter / raised planting area
Location: CR7, Surrey

Another Way to Repurpose Reclaimed Scaffold Boards

Reclaimed boards can be adapted for very different projects depending on the lengths required and what the customer plans to build.

For another example using reclaimed wood, see how a customer repurposed 13ft used scaffold boards for tables in Southampton, creating furniture from longer timber planks.