thrice all american: Weekend Project Recap

Weekend Project Recap

· Posted Tuesday July 11, 2006 by jamie

A bit of home and garden sorta stuff…

I put in a brand new fence this last spring. To my horror, one of the fence posts warped significantly post-construction, causing the crosspiece to slip out of the fence bracket. I suppose I could have taken the whole thing apart and rebuilt, but I decided I would work with what was there, so I cut back the cross-stud, created a filler piece, and fused it all back together.

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Now I just need to go around and add nails to attach all of the studs to the brackets. Lesson learned, though I’m not sure doing that would have stemmed the warpage problems…

Next on the agenda was the installation of a rainbarrel on our garage. We already have 3 barrels installed on the house and 2 reserves sitting inside the garage. This is a great way to reclaim at least a little bit of the water from our roof that would otherwise pool up at the base of our downspouts, and provides excellent water for plants, birdbaths, etc.

So without further ado, before and after:

Just need to throw an earthquake strap on there for safety, an overflow hose to the nearby plants, touch up the paint on the downspout, and wait for the rain to come…

We have just 2 downspouts left without barrels, so I imagine we’ll be getting more soon. Our rainbarrels were purchased from Dan Borba, a super nice guy who throws together a great product. (If you attended Art on the Ave, you may have seen his barrel painted up with fireworks…very cool…)

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