With these assembly instructions, you can build a simple robotic lawnmower garage yourself. The basic frame consists of squared timber, which is covered with weather-resistant and robust panels. A solid foundation provides a stable base and provides more security. You can let your imagination run wild with the interior design.
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Wooden frame for foundation
This frame will help you to align and pour the foundation. You can use untreated coniferous wood, as the frame will not be used later to build the wooden garage. Better get some longer squared timber to have spares. The cost of the material is one to two euros per meter:
- two longer squared timbers for long sides
- two shorter squared timbers for width
Take four squared timbers and put them together to form a rectangle with two long side walls and two short walls for the front and back of the garage. The squared timbers are screwed together. This rectangle serves as a mold for the foundation. This can be slightly larger than the garage.
Rack for mounting brackets
Build a frame for the angles, which are cast in the foundation and connected to the robotic lawnmower garage after the base plate has been cast. This construction offers your robot lawn mower more security against theft. To do this, build two frames from squared timber, angles and short pieces of wood. The price for the angles varies between two and four euros.
- two squared timbers in the width of the garage
- four stainless angle connectors, eg 105 x 105 x 90 mm
Attach two brackets to the end of a squared timber that measures the width of the garage. Fasten the other two brackets in the same way to another squared timber of the same length. Then screw a short piece of wood onto each of the angles from the outside so that they form an extension of the two squared timbers. These short pieces of wood serve as a support surface. You can now place the two squared timbers with the shorter pieces on the wooden frame and fasten them to it.
prepare the ground
The ground is of great importance because it ensures that your robotic lawnmower stands securely and serves as a secure anchor for the garage. For the material from the hardware store you have to plan between 40 and 50 euros. A cubic meter of concrete gravel with a grain size of up to 16 mm costs around 30 euros.
- five bags of concrete
- Strichmatte
- conduits
- gravel, grit and stones
Place the floor frame together with the frame for the mounting frame in the appropriate place where the robotic lawnmower garage will later stand. Dig a hole at this point and lay out two conduits for the boundary wire. To test whether the robot lawn mower parks optimally, you should place a solid plate on the floor frame and let the robot lawn mower drive. A boundary wire laid in the ground serves as a guide. Align each perimeter wire tube and stake it into the ground. You need another conduit for the charging station’s power cable.
pour foundation
Cover the bottom of the pit with a layer of grit and stones. Make sure that the perimeter wire does not slip in the empty conduit. The screed mesh is placed in the hole to increase rigidity and reinforce the screed. Mix the concrete and fill the hole up to the top edge of the wooden frame. This serves as the perfect support for leveling the concrete with a board.
Garage rack – assembly instructions
For the floor frame, cut three squared timbers according to the dimensions of your robotic lawnmower. Be sure to cut the woods a little longer. This gives your robot lawn mower more space later and will not be damaged when moving. Arrange the three squared timbers so that they form a U. One side remains free, because the robotic lawnmower should be able to drive in and out here later. The longer squared timber form the sides and are connected to one another by a shorter squared timber.
Place the floor frame on the foundation. This allows you to check whether the frame is flush with the angle sides. Attach four squared timbers to the floor frame that will form the frame for the side panels. You also screw these squared timbers to the brackets. A closed frame made of four squared timber with the dimensions of the floor frame, which you place on the squared timber for the side walls and fasten, serves as a support for the roof of the robotic lawnmower garage.
- three shorter squared timbers for the front and back
- four longer squared timbers for long sides
- four squared timbers for side construction
build a gabled roof
The gable roof is held by three beams that are attached to a retractable base frame. This frame consists of four squared timbers that are slightly shorter than the squared timbers of the garage frame.
- six squared timbers cut at an angle for the supports
- two longer squared timbers
- two shorter squared timbers
A beam consists of two squared timbers, the ends of which are sawn off at an angle. They are screwed together to form a wide V. Place the supports on the base frame so that they protrude slightly and screw the supports to the frame. This allows the roof structure to be lowered into the garage frame and the supports rest on the frame. You can later remove the entire roof from the robotic lawnmower garage because it is not screwed to the garage frame.
mount plates
The three side walls are covered with laminated panels. The material is weatherproof and protects your robot lawn mower from rain. Two more plates are screwed onto the roof rack. You can overhang something on all sides so that the rain can run off ideally and does not drip into the garage. Cut triangular panels to place under the gable at the front and back. Seal all screw connections and the gable edge with silicone to protect them from seepage water.
- Silicone, two to four euros per tube
- Laminate boards, 20 to 30 euros per square meter
