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

[snoqpass]

mantle project that took way too long, and still working on, but now that ski season is over ...

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Beautiful

[Skidog]

Not built, but I been prepping the house for paint last couple weekends. Huge pain. Anyway I primed it this morning. I will back brush the finish coat to make it look a bit smoother. Kinda putting lipstick on a pig to sell it. It needs to be re sided. This should give next owners a good 7 years if they don't want to side it right away. Just no return for me if I re side it before sale.

On a side note. Harbor freight gets a lot of crap but I looked at renting a sprayer. Instead I grabbed a 5/8 hp airless sprayer 25ft hose complete kit. $170 with discounts/sales. For reference I professionally painted houses for 10+ years. This little sprayer performed admirably and if it only makes it a couple jobs it paid for itself. Got 2 sides and the back 2 coated. Used about 7 gallons and took 4 hours.

[Art Shirk]

Building some planter boxes for the hill in front of the house. I don't mind all the time building them but I'm not looking forward to the side hill install with the survey project that goes along with getting them square and level.

[FLS]

An extra 7 years? That's got to be some of that really good structural paint I've heard about.

[Skidog]

An extra 7 years? That's got to be some of that really good structural paint I've heard about.

You've had too many bad paint jobs. I've applied paint on houses that lasted 15+ before needing anything. It's all about application and preparation. Scrape, sand, prime 2 coat finish. I did all that here but the cedar siding was in rough shape as the last guy did a crap job. This will be far from perfect but should easily go 7 years before it goes ghetto again.

[RootSkier]

We should find every dipshit who installed ceder siding at an angle in the 1970s and 1980s and beat them with a fucking cane.

[Art Shirk]

i'm not too crafty but my heart's in the right place! my son is named after my grandpa, who died when i was month old after meeting me once. apparently he was quite artistic in addition to being a logger. his long time logging partner felled a tree on him in winter weather. he survived 8 hours in the snow before they got him out and two weeks in the hospital. he did a lot of cool stuff, including woodburning this dragon on my dad's bedroom door with his name in cursive underneath. i'm doing the same for my son but on a movable piece of wood. i've never woodburned anything but the box i buried my 18 year old cat in. this is just a practice run on the wrong kind of wood i hope. any pointers are appreciated.

i copied the door on a copier, then used graphite paper to put the image on the wood.

I've no pointers but think this is a cool sentiment and great project.

[Skidog]

We should find every dipshit who installed ceder siding at an angle in the 1970s and 1980s and beat them with a fucking cane.

OMG I couldnt agree more...they did the back horizontally and it didnt warp hardly at all...the angle shit? ugh due to prior bad paint jobs and me neglecting it for too long made some of it a mess. Like i said Lipstick on a pig.

[bodywhomper]

I need to get starts and seeds in the dirt and put up temp hill people fence to keep the deer out. This project is cramping my spring skiin steeze... grrrr

Got the temp hill people fence and gates installed yesterday afternoon and more in the ground (and I got a little ski in on Saturday). Note the craftsmanship is nowhere near that of others on this board, which I'm ok with (and y'all are giving great ideas.

[~mikey b]

Looks good to me buddy

[bodywhomper]

Looks good to me buddy

Thanks.

Hopefully, it'll get the job done for a few seasons.

Note the big trunk in the background that I haven't bucked yet. That was our second biggest tree lost from pine beetle last summer. 36"-ish DBH. Definitely more sun now at the garden spot.

[muted]

We do the cardboard thing too...kills all plants weeds underneath better and then composts eventually, IME. Here's a shot of our garden, built all the boxes and fence.

If the garden doesn't work out, this could double as a family plot when the apocalypse hits.

[~mikey b]

One in place. Added a bench on the side that faces the fire pit.

[dtown]

If the garden doesn't work out, this could double as a family plot when the apocalypse hits.

Ha, that made me laugh and very true!!

[~mikey b]

Another one with bench

[~mikey b]

Starting to come together.





tile crate lined with garden cloth up on blocks



with strawberries

[Skidog]

Starting to come together.





tile crate lined with garden cloth up on blocks



with strawberries

Aren't cinder blocks made with shit you're not "supposed" to plant in? Think I read that somewhere but it might been that food lady or something. I personally wouldn't worry either, but I think there are some nasty chemicals that go into producing cinder blocks. Maybe those are free range cinder blocks though.

[~mikey b]

Organic gluten free

[wyeaster]

yeah i would definitely not grow in cinder blocks. or maybe just the cancer causing vegetables.

[Art Shirk]

Thought about starting a "how to" thread but I suppose this is as good a place as any. Install of the planter boxes is on hold and I'm taking the side door up to defcon 1 due to excessive grousing.

I like this door, but I hate the ugly and poorly situated cat/dog door. So I want to rehab it back to its previous unfucked condition.

I'm thinking of ripping out the cat door border and innards, filling the hole with a piece of wood of appropriate size, then placing another piece of plywood in the recessed part of the door just as high as the top of the old hole, then finally, another piece of plywood over what should then be a flush surface. The last piece of plywood would be like a large wooden kick plate with some nice molding around it to basically make it look like an ornate flourish to the bottom half of the door. Finish with sand and paint to match.



(1) Does that sound like a stupid plan?
(2) If not, what substance should I use to fill the gap that will exist between the inlayed piece of plywood and the inside of the recess (there will be a gap because the inlayed plywood won't fit perfectly with the beveled edges). Like woodfiller but for more than just spot treatments I guess.
(3) what sort of wood for an exterior door, albeit under and overhang?

[~mikey b]

The more I read about concrete blocks (not cinder blocks - my mistake) the less I'm worried about it.

[RootSkier]

(1) Does that sound like a stupid plan?

Yes.

For lots of reasons. Not least if which because it will look like shit.

[Vt-Freeheel]

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.

[Mazderati]

Based on the paint overspray on your sill, anything will work.

[Art Shirk]

Yes.

For lots of reasons. Not least if which because it will look like shit.

Haha, ok. Lay option b on me.