Sunday, May 11, 2008
Another garage door installation.
May 12
Nothing looks square to my eye? Maybe the world is cockeyed? No matter how I try, getting a piece of tin over my head is always a pain in the ass. I wonder why there's such a difference in distance? Anyway, one piece on the left is pre weathered, ha, ha. Unfortunately, I must drop the left piece and trim to fit. Gave up on the right hand piece.
The several pieces for the sides will be simple.Ha, ha, everything is simple. That's why it takes me so long to get anything done.
No matter how much I measure, the damn thing never fits! :( Lots of free tin to make it fit better, but it's all the lifting and trying to get the boards to hold the damn thing in place. Had to quit for the day, maybe more later to finish this one piece. The tin cutting blade in my circle saw does a quick job, but what a dangerous tool. Glad I have some wrap around shooting glasses to deflect the shards.
My son Hawley got up at noon; however, I mushed from 7 AM and got most of the hardware assembled and made other adjustments to the door rollers. With Hawley working with me, it took about an hour to get the springs installed. Later, I made more adjustments and now the door works fine. Even has manual locks, one on each side. The spring assembly has a cable inside to prevent pieces from flying about if there's breakage. The lift cable took quite a while to figure out the routing. We soon realized that we skipped a pulley.
The first door installation saw my Cowboy Action steel become overgrown with weeds. Hmm, what's different this time? Oh, the forest is gone and the trees are 100 yards distant. Ha, ha, the rusty round thing isn't a steel target. It's an old bird stand that is tipped over. The square plates are the shooting targets.
Hey, it's a work in progress. I got this far without help. Lots of heavy lifting and long rests along the way. Fortunately, my son Hawley arrived and saved me
weeks of work.
This picture shows the sill that is treated 2X6 and held in position with 1/2 inch rebar. It sets on the bare ground, but later, I'll dig out and put some sacrete.
The door panels are up and the upright rails are installed to secure the door. The open areas will be covered with white metal to match the original exterior.
The support for the horizontal rail is finished. Still have a few bolts to tighten. My son visited for the Mother's Day weekend and volunteered to help with the high overhead construction. Would have taken me several weeks to get this far with the project.The front carport closure worked very well; however, it's now full of storage stuff and . . . while I'm making the attempt to get rid of lots of junk, I need more room out of the weather for sorting, etc. The carport outside the back door of the house was intended as a patio cover. It works for the intended purpose, but the open ends allows too much weather. My recent surgery has healed enough so I can start some forbidden activities. I had lots of time for planning, but never really got anything on paper until the beginning of May '08. Took two days to haul the materials to the back yard. I wasn't strong enough to move the door carton, so I moved it panel by panel. Same for the very wet treated 2X6 wood.
It took several days put the plan as I go to get the frame installed. It's up as viewed from the outside, including all the junk.
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