Building a backyard workshop

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Slanderer: May 6, 2007

Some of the Sheep posted:

You could do a bit of redneck engineering and put an abrasive on the floor (or door) where it rubs and and open/close a couple hundred times.

Hah, I had that same thought. A long sheet of sandpaper from a beltsander might be ideal for this.

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Slanderer: May 6, 2007

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

Last weekend I finished off the last ~2% of the roof shingling. It should be pretty secure against leaks now, at least as well as I'm able to as an amateur roofer. I also painted the workshop door.

Annoyingly, the door no longer closes, as a result of the extra width created by the paint. Lesson learned: don't fit your door exactly to the frame. I'm going to have to take part of the frame down and run it through my thickness planer before I'll be able to close the door again.

Next steps are probably to figure out trim for the doorway (and related flashing) and to start figuring out who to get vinyl siding from. I also need to start reading the book I bought on electrical wiring, as a pre-requisite to installing the cables and outlets and so on.

Did you account for expansion too? You'll just end up scraping the paint off if the door gets stuck when the weather changes.

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Slanderer: May 6, 2007

Good job dude

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