Sliding Door – Finished
We are close now. Four more pieces and the shed is protected from the outside. I am pleased with the door. It needs some finishing touches – I need to cut some bolts that extend too far, and scrape the walls as it slides, and add a guide wheel.
Practice Makes Perfect
The brick is finished! What a process – to keep lines level and walls flush and plumb all while maintaining uniform mortar width is a real skill. My hat is off to all masons who excel at what they do and who have made so many beautiful masonry creations throughout history. For our wall, we played with the idea of a soldier course topping off the last row of brick as a transition to the metal siding. It was vetoed.
Hoarding Crate Wood
The company my brother works for has a warehouse full of industrial kitchen equipment. The majority of the equipment arrives in crates, as pictured above. The wood for the crates is made mostly of 1×4″s and 1×6″s. Upon mentioning the shed project to the warehouse manager (Wes), he recommended I take a look at all … Continue reading
Fifty More Blocks
Using a sledgehammer, I extracted 50 more blocks from this site (50 seems to be the capacity of our trailer). Previously, in December, my Dad and I had come down and gathered fifty blocks that were lying near this pit, unattached to anything else. This time, the only blocks available were mortared in with the … Continue reading
Metal
Today was a day of metal – I was able to bring home steel (pictured above) and anodized aluminum (pictured below). Both of these materials were used in Portage Central High School’s auditorium roof. The steel was the structure that provided the mansard shape, the aluminum was the cladding. Portage Central is getting a new … Continue reading
SHED 