Shit you built with your own two hands (picture thread)

[Mazderati]

Hang a sign above it that says "Smelly cats will be sent away with mother."

[Art Shirk]

Replace the Cat Door with a solid wood panel with your house number on it. That would give you a good story to tell if someone asked why the door looked like that. Or you could say the previous owner put the number there.
Based on the paint overspray on your sill, anything will work.

How do I fix it, taking into consideration the recessed interior part of the door that the twonk who owned the house before me cut straight through?

[Sirshredalot]

How do I fix it, taking into consideration the recessed interior part of the door that the twonk who owned the house before me cut straight through?

If it were my place, I'd make my peace with the cat door or make my peace with getting a new door. I don't think our carpentry skills are very different, and this is clearly a prominent place on your house and a difficult thing to patch in a way that looks symmetrical. Stuffing a plug in there with your house number sounds like a whimsical fix that will probably help your heating bill, though.

[Art Shirk]

If it were my place, I'd make my peace with the cat door or make my peace with getting a new door. I don't think our carpentry skills are very different, and this is clearly a prominent place on your house and a difficult thing to patch in a way that looks symmetrical. Stuffing a plug in there with your house number sounds like a whimsical fix that will probably help your heating bill, though.

Fair enough, but the cat door is going away, so I'm probably going to sink a bunch of beer and fuck with it anyway. I may as well come up with the least fucky thing I can and go for it. If no one has a better idea, I'm going with option A and I'll post a picture to round out the ridicule.

[snoqpass]

Replace the Cat Door with a solid wood panel with your house number on it. That would give you a good story to tell if someone asked why the door looked like that. Or you could say the previous owner put the number there.
Based on the paint overspray on your sill, anything will work.

Most places around here have specific requirements for displaying house numbers so emergency services can find you quickly

[Art Shirk]

Most places around here have specific requirements for displaying house numbers so emergency services can find you quickly

No one said I have to rip the other ones off my house. The other set is in a completely different area anyway. Maybe I'll use it as a mini billboard. First sign going up:

[snoqpass]

No one said I have to rip the other ones off my house. The other set is in a completely different area anyway. Maybe I'll use it as a mini billboard. First sign going up:

[BigDaddy]

For the amount of work it would take to make it look good, but then fail in less than a year, just bite the bullet and buy a new door. I found something like yours at HD for about $350. Once I painted it, you'd never know it was made out of styrofoam... (jk)

Plywood would fall apart and delaminate faster than a pair of Chinese made 333's.

[detrusor]

I think I would cut the bottom of the door off at the lower trim line. Fill partial hole flush, build new bottom w matching molding, use one of those dovetail machines to reattach, sand and paint.

[Danno]

Get a cat. Problem solved.

[Danno]

Or buy a new door.

[muted]

Yeah, cut the bottom half off, replace, and make it irish.

[hatchgreenchile]

Started working with a friend on his new "1 bedroom apartment on wheels", 38' x 10'. Lots of outdoor work and framing last weekend , beetle kill siding, canvas walls and hardwood floor coming up soon

[Flyoverland Captive]

The most important tool in any home project:

[hatchgreenchile]

After table saw work is done, framing a bathroom and utility closet is a solid 3 beer job.

[Bronco]

Nice job blocking the joints in the sheathing. Planning to go back and put hangers on the roof joists?

[snoqpass]

Different kind of remodel

[Art Shirk]

Different kind of remodel

Whoa. Keep us posted.


I said fuck the cat door tonight and wired up some outdoor lights instead. Got a timer and remote for the nights I pass out with them on.

[FLS]

Great space there.

[Mazderati]

New bunk boards for a boat trailer. West Marine sells five-foot bunks for $75/pair. The lumber, carpet, staple gun, and staples for four six-foot bunks cost less than $70. I tried this with an electric staple gun the other weekend and it didn't work out. Thought an air gun may be necessary but the Arrow T50 and some good staples came through.

[2FUNKY]

New bunks for mine a couple months ago. I used galvanized roofing nails instead of staples. Did you use SS staples? Also why didn't you use treated wood?

[jackstraw]

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[Mazderati]

[IMG]New bunks for mine a couple months ago. I used galvanized roofing nails instead of staples. Did you use SS staples? Also why didn't you use treated wood?

Nice work. Yeah, stainless staples. Arrow sells monel staples that are even better but they are twice as expensive and were not in stock. The boards are treated. They just had a few weeks to dry out so aren't as green.

FYI, this place sells stainless carpet nails if needed down the road.

[2FUNKY]

Gotcha. Thanks for the link.

[Art Shirk]

Can anyone lend some advice on laying a foundation for a shed I am building. Never done anything like this before, but need a place to keep the dead hookers that are piling up. I am building it on a concrete slab. I didn't lay it specifically for this, its preexisting and its not quite level. Am I building some sort of sill plate and then shims on top? What do people think of split drive nails for the anchors? Basically need to figure out how to get this project started on an uneven concrete slab.