The wheels I found in garage sales, junk stores, antique stores and so on. The lumber can be anything like scrap wood. I treat the lumber with wood preservative and then I stain it. It doesn’t need any finish coat like polyurethane. The rails or the bars are made from one continuous 2×4 lumber, attached to the wheel axle back to the handle part. The flower bed is a box screwed to the railings. All these rolling flower beds are...
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Give your driveway an accent with decorative fence Give your driveway a nice accent with 3×4 lumber and a rope. How to: Shape the top of the lumber on your table saw and apply stain. 2. Drill a hole of 3/4″ for the rope. 3. Soak the rope in wood preservative and let it dry. 4. Install the lumber in the ground and fish the rope in the holes. Tweet Vote on...
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A client of Shapira builders company purchased a pergola kit online from Pergola Depot My client, the homeowners, asked me to give them a bid to assemble it and install it in the ground. The kit came with drawing and instruction. The first thing was to dig four hole, four feet deep for the six by six posts. The overall structure is seventeen by seventeen feet by eight feet clearance. The rafters are installed one foot apart and the two by two...
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Installation of by pass barn doors My client found Shapira Builders on Yelp. I visited with homeowners, they have an open archway of 51 inches by 94 inches. They already purchased the hardware online from NW Artisan Hardware. The cost of the hardware was about $700.00. The homeowners Had few contractors who did not want to pursue this job for different reasons. I told the homeowners that I can execute the installation. At this point...
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Refinishing Wood door My latest customer found Shapira Builders on Yelp. My client invited me to look at his front door, he wanted me to refinish it. I found a door that hes been long time neglected. To maintain the health of wood stained door I recommend, once a year to apply some kind of protective oil. I do not recommend polyurethane. Polyurethane drys and cracks. I use oils such as, Linseed oil or Tung oil. As I looked at the door, I...
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