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I finished camouflaging the shed with green paint, and made the new doors.
In the last two weeks it has rained a bit, and the Summer weather arrived … so everything has grown.
So mission accomplished … the shed has virtually “disappeared from view” now we see the greenery and flowers.
This is a photo of building my second shed door. The other door is built, primed, painted and on the shed. The ply was leftover from a previous job.
So far it cost 20 dollars for both doors … for one eight-foot plank of Poplar (which I cut into four strips, 4x 6foot long strips for stiles, an inch and 1/4 wide, stood narrow edge down)
And 4x2foot for rails, (stood narrow side down). Each door has two batons of off-cut Cedar( free). I’m re-using the latch.
Oh … yes, unfortunately, I had to buy 4 hinges (12 dollars in total) as the old ones were too shot, too much play in them … that I was afraid the doors would never align properly.
Marge spent 60 dollars on paint, paintbrushes, paint trays etc to paint the shed green and I’m using the same paint to do the doors.
So I guess our shed improvement will cost about $100 dollars all in all.
Used my old radial arm saw as a bench … as I don’t have a real bench.
I’ll try to remember to take another photo when it’s on the shed as a before and after 🙂
I think “the whole thing” makes the rigidity it is not beam and post.
It does not use “sine wave” corrugation. It’s “square wave” corrugation. Which gives it more rigidity when the panels are joined together and overlapping. This also gives the walls better “snow load” for taking weight on the roof.
It has two metal rafters together ( back to back) in the center. Then another rafter halfway between the centre and the outside edge ( both left and right of centre).
It has a trim that goes all around the top edge and the bottom edge that the sides panels are screwed into. I couldn’t really see … but I think the bottom edge is screwed/bolted into the concrete.
It has metal bracing which is at waist height which runs around the walls like a shelf.
The doorway has 2×4 inch wood studs around it that make up the door frame.
