More Shelves

 It was a rainy day...

It really was, so we did some indoor stuff while the rain tapped against the polycarbonate roof.

The second shelf with the five cent brackets and then a little IKEA shelf thing in the middle, obtained for a dollar on half price day at the thrift store. I wonder what sort of shelf it was supposed to be as those angle brackets were completely overengineered for the block of wood.

With the rain falling we could spot the places water comes in, all to be addressed next year, either with sealant on the polycarbonate or some redirection magic yet to be imagined.

Brackets

It is a nice day today, rained overnight but we should be able to complete some more of the little details and move closer to sanding the door.

A couple of simple brackets, each constructed from three pieces of scrap wood, three screws and some glue. These things would cost only four bucks a piece on clearance at IKEA but then of course there are taxes, cost to travel there if we could (we don't have an IKEA on the island anyway) and after completing our version we calculated that our price was about five cents a piece.

Five cents.

I can imagine my woodworking teacher, Mister Roberts, looking at these and he would be feeling the same negative emotions as he always did when reviewing any of my teenage work.

However, I survived secondary school and these will certainly do the job. They are soon to be painted and installed in a greenhouse nearby.

Details

The weather is changing and it is definitely October!

The project is almost finished, except for some trim pieces and that door, but we will have to wait for a couple of warm, dry days to work on it, it needs to be sanded, painted and of course, installed. 

As the greenhouse is mostly waterproof and quite sheltered from the winds there are opportunities to complete some details inside the structure and here are photos of some of them :

The shelf in the front right corner, two brackets and a piece of wood, we will be making a couple more brackets in the next few days and placing a very similar shelf in the back right corner.

The two shelves on the left hand side with pegboard between them, a place to hang all the tools. These windows are the sliding ones, so plenty of additional ventilation will be available in the summer months.

It was a blustery, wet day and we installed the edge and painted it, once again we are running out of paint, but there are only pieces of trim to be done, the door will be white and we already have good quality Dulux exterior paint for that, so that is covered, or will be after we have sanded it.

Less Air, more Wood

The end of the week, smashing weather for October yet rather chilly first thing.

What we like to call the gable ends are now completed, except for a few trim pieces that have been painted and will be installed in the next couple of days. It seems that we are always "almost there" as we also have to install some lower retaining blocks inside, along the lower part of the gable, plus more shelving.

However, we are very close to addressing the one last big hole in the greenhouse, and also, as you may have noticed, we should clean those windows.

Installed, well almost

The four end gable windows are now installed on the top edge, additional wood, brackets and screws will be added over the next few days and the OSB will be cut to further fill in the holes. 

In addition, a shelf on the right hand side has been installed and a sheet of pegboard awaits.

You can see the peppers that have moved in, they have become a little bit of a nuisance as we have to shuffle them around out of our way, however, they are very welcome to stay and we will see if the greenhouse will extend their season so they can provide food for our table.

The final holes in the gable ends will be filled with wood of some sort, probably the free OSB that we picked up early in the project, we may also add some air vents.

Cured!

The four fabricated windows, waiting to be painted :

These will be installed either Wednesday or Thursday, weather looks like it will be good and the four will be the last windows to be fitted.

Today we filled some holes in the greenhouse walls, installed more "nail strips" on the installed windows and painted the above, a few hours of work and we are both a bit tired after it. It will be interesting tomorrow to see if we can gather the enthusiasm together to get out there again.

Waiting for the cure

The end gable windows are still clamped and curing, We checked our test piece today and the glue works, but we will leave them for another 24 hours before painting and then hopefully fitted by the weekend.

Today it was quite busy. On marketplace a local was giving away some wood, so we arranged to pick up this morning, after that it was a little cool so we decided to wait until the afternoon before starting some essential preparation work.  

All the other windows are installed now, except for that polycarbonate one in the middle, which will be retained tomorrow with some wood strips, the amazing thing was that a single 2' x 4' piece of polycarbonate was good for two end gable windows and the remaining piece fits the gap exactly, another one of those sizing coincidences on this job.

Some of the wood we picked up this morning is perfect for the top retainers for the patio door windows, so they were cut to size and painted today, along with other essential pieces to be installed before the "final four" windows. In addition, an assortment of pressure treated 2x4 for free was very welcome for filling in some of the holes, when they are all done we know that we will be starting with the door.

"Put wood int' 'ole"

In addition, the greenhouse has some residents now, the peppers are now squatting which would never have happened if we had fitted a door.