Cutting and Fitting Trellis to a Courtyard Garden

How to cut and fit trellis to a courtyard garden
  • Difficulty
    Medium

Turn a small paved courtyard into a beautiful oasis with tiling, flowerbeds, pots, and a painted trellis. Get creative with Dremel and enhance your outdoor space.

You need

Step By Step Instructions

Step14

Customizing and Installing Trellis for Courtyard Garden

Using Dremel Multi-Tool and SC544 to cut through wood to desired length

Measure your courtyard walls for the trellis and buy it in standard lengths from your nearest DIY superstore. For our courtyard garden, we chose pre-stained wood in green with an arched end. If the standard length doesn’t fit your wall, lay it on your trestle table and taking your Dremel® 8200, SpeedClic Mandrel and SpeedClic Wood Cutting Wheel SC544 cut through the wood to the desired length. (Similarly, if you can’t find arched trellis, then mark up your arch onto the trellis and cut through each section in the same way.)

Step24

Refining the Trellis: Sanding for a Professional Finish

Sand the cut ends with Dremel Multi-Tool and SC407 sanding band

Sand the cut ends to ensure a smooth finish using your Dremel® 8200, Sanding Mandrel and Sanding Band 1/2" grit 60 (SC407).

Step34

Securing the Trellis: Mounting and Drilling for Plant Support

Using Dremel Multi-Tool and drill bit 628, drill through trellis and into the baton

Mount batons on wall, then using your Dremel® 8200 and Dremel® drill bit 150 3.2 mm from the Precision Drill Bit set 628, drill through trellis and into the baton onto your courtyard wall. This way your plants will have space to climb behind and around your trellis. We have inverted our trellis to put the straight side at the top and the arched at the bottom as a design feature. If you do this you will need to stain the top edge of your trellis to match the rest of it.

Step44

Final Look: Completed Trellis Installation

Without plants, this is what your trellis should look like

This is what your trellis should look like on your wall without plants. If you had to cut an arch for your trellis because you couldn’t find any arched trellis locally, you will have needed to create a curved piece of wood to finish off the arch, as shown.


Warning

To reduce the risk of injury user must read instruction manuals for all tools used in this project. Wear eye and respiratory protection. Use clamps to support work piece whenever practical.