Sliding French door with one fixed panel    This home had a nice size room with no doors, just an open square archway. My client wonted to turn the room into an office with dual pane glass French doors. This system works much better than installing double doors, that would require a lot of space. My solution was, one fixed panel and one sliding door. The existing opening was too large for standard doors. I reduced the opening with two by four...

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Decorative window cedar shutters   These shutters are made with clear cedar wood. The shutters are finished with linseed oil with no stain to keep the natural beauty of the wood. The shutters are screwed to the block wall. They are stationary. The installation: Drill four holes in the shutter, then hold the shutter in the right position  and mark the wall with pencil for drilling wall. Drill four 3/8 of an inch diameter holes in the block wall....

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Designing, creating and installing double cedar gates by Shapira Builders    The homeowners in Scottsdale AZ, asked me to replace double knotty alder doors that were falling apart.     This home have a  surroundings block wall with stucco and an arch way for double gates. This home was custom built for these homeowners. For some reason, they used two knotty alder doors as gates, that are exposed to the weather. That was a bad choice of...

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  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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