I’d been saving scraps of Hardi to make some decorative “fan” over four of these basement windows (personal house; time is free).
Wanted to sort of echo this, on the other side of the house
Made some drawings; experimented with color schemes –
Transferred layout to dirty old Hardi – score and snap straights; grit jigsaw for curves –
Stack to check; then cut and Gorilla Glue pieces together –
Prime and paint – garish! In a good way! –
Forrest – now trying to figure how to hold the ~30# things up!
Edited 1/4/2009 9:30 am ET by McDesign
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Don't you learn anything around here? Ya hold em up with drywall screws! Coat them with shellac for weather resistance!
Very purty BTW!
Tu stultus es
Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
Also a CRX fanatic!
Look, just send me to my drawer. This whole talking-to-you thing is like double punishment.
Soon all directions given in your town will include,
"go past the house that PT Barnum painted...."
Kidding, Forrest. It's a lovely application of imagination and leftovers.
A La Carte Government funding... the real democracy.
You miss out on a lot of great p o r n sites when you spend your time so productively.
Or so i've heard.
Way fly, as the kids like to say. Also looks heavy, kinda/sorta. Your plans to attach?
(edit to add: oops, you're already working on this predicament)
Edited 1/4/2009 1:05 pm ET by shtrum
That's neat. Couple of questions/comments. In the second pic you say you want to "echo this" but I don't see anything remotely like what you did. Why not overlap the edges like shingles or siding, working from left and right toward the middle, and cap the middle with a flat piece. Wouldn't that make the same look but with a lot less weight?
"Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
I guess I meant "echo the alternating colors - hard to see up on that gable; the alternating vertical stripes on the beadboard.
Yes - your approach would be less weight. I've made some with layering/angling the pieces that way, but on something this small it doesn't lie right. I did a ~ 8' gable once that way, all in white - can't find a clear pic.
Weight should be easy to handle; They're only about 5' off the ground. I think I'll sink some TimberTech screws in the center, through to the plywood + Gorilla glue, and Bondo over the heads.
Forrest - love bouncing ideas around here
Better pic of the front gable -
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Forrest
Edited 1/4/2009 1:27 pm ET by McDesign
now trying to figure how to hold the ~30# things up!
Carriage through bolts? Or will that just pull the whole window assembly out?
Mike
Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, big wheel turn by the grace of god.
Mounted them up today - Each held on with a 4" X #10 GRKs and Gorilla glue into the plywood sheathing.
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Also sanded and re-primed and added new Tendura sills - everything white will be painted the dark green (gloss).
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Forrest
Edited 1/11/2009 12:40 am ET by McDesign
Edited 1/11/2009 12:42 am ET by McDesign
everything white will be painted the dark green
So you're going to have three green spots in the center of the fan?
It does look nice. I guess it's hard to see the thickness since it's enclosed by the brick."Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
forrest... i like it....well doneMike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Good job. A special display of design talent.
But you gonna clean up that brick before doing that final green?
Is that iron from the irrigation system?
Whacha gonna do with the rocks? They look too valuable (shape and color) to be left to go free range.
I guess that's all part of the landscape plan, huh?
The rocks are granite slabs and chunks from old walkways we occasionally dig up in the yard. Seems to be the remnants of an ancient Roman road. They are being used to gradually expand our landing at the foot of the back steps in what DW calls "an organic pattern".
Brick, I'm going to leave like that - they were salvaged from our old chimney tops when we built new ones.
Iron? What iron?
Forrest
Edited 1/11/2009 11:35 am ET by McDesign
From about 1/4 to 1/3 of the bottom of the white painted windows and down, the brick's mortar lines are stained orange. Above that line, it's grey. From my experience, that's due to dissolved iron in irrigation water.
Or do you have red clay type soil and it's splashed up?
Ah - I see. It is just splash - we added this part on, and it was muddy for a while before the grass grew.
Forrest
Finshed up and all -
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Forrest
Edited 1/23/2009 8:51 pm ET by McDesign
Uhhh
the window colors don't match
but they look great anyway
A La Carte Government funding... the real democracy.
In the painting scheme, window sashes are dark green; exterior doors are dark red.
Forrest
Sorry for the hijack, but they're calling for you at Over The Fence...
http://forums.taunton.com/tp-overthefence/messages?msg=9639.1
How 'bout a picture from further back, so we can see if you've cleaned up the yard yet.
Looks nice. Mike
Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, big wheel turn by the grace of god.
What great detail!
It's stuff like this that makes me glad to be in amongst the artisans of the trades like yourself.
Well done.
Quite a beautiful house and nicely redone. What is its age? I'm going to guess 1905? It's my favorite era of house style.
Thanks - the house is mostly 1886, with some additions and "Queen-Anne-izing" (like that front gable) in 1916, after a fire.
The octagonal end I'm working on now we built in 1993. That's still the single coat of primer on the cedar claps from then!
Forrest
You aren't much for painting I take it?
I'd say that Mc is being very thorough in his timing and choice of materials so that this beast will not have to be repainted in his lifetime. ; ^ ) Mike
Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, big wheel turn by the grace of god.
off topic: Can I see a picture of your staging? I have always wondered how to set up on a porch roof to work on gable.
You get out of life what you put into it......minus taxes.
Marv
Here's my Pony clamp invention - it looks crappy because it sat on the roof just like that for two years before I used it again!
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Basically, just (3) upside down Pony clamps against little plates underneath the 4x8 platform. It's incredibly adjustable, and simple and cheap and strong (I think).
I've been on a 12' stepladder on this one; no slipping!
Forrest
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