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Building Custom Lattice
Hammer Zone — Home improvement information about making privacy lattice from thin wood slats. Thin strips of treated lumber are miter-cut and laid out on a piece of foam. The overlap points are stapled and the staple points are flattened out. While building a ...More…
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Cutting Simple Dog-Eared
Hammer Zone — Home improvement information about cutting a large volume of dog-eared fence boards. The first step was to cut one picket exactly 4 feet long. I made all the pickets from 12 foot long treated 1x6's, which gave a picket cost substantially less ...More…
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Pre-Assembling Fence Sections
Hammer Zone — Home improvement information about building a backyard fence project: pre-assembly of 8-foot fence segments. A simple fixture is made from OSB, lumber, and angle brackets. Eight foot sections of picket fence are assembled in minutes. To build a ...More…
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Installing A Fence From
Hammer Zone — Home improvement information about building a fence, including making pickets, assembling fence sections, and installing 8-foot modules. Fence posts are placed in holes and 8' sections of fence are attached with metal brackets. At our project ...More…
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Porch Flooring
Hammer Zone — Tongue-and-groove flooring is pre-primed and installed on the porch framing. To repair the porch similar to the original design, the owner of this old house purchased a large quantity of Southern Yellow Pine tongue-and-groove flooring. Some ...More…
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Repairing Rotted Exterior Wood
Hammer Zone — We dig out the old rotten wood, apply a liquid wood hardening agent, then fill in the voids with epoxy wood filler. Wood damage caused by rot is a common problem with old houses. There are 3 requirements for wood decay fungi to flourish: The ...More…
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Porch Floor Framing
Hammer Zone — This is a photo from an earlier stage. Note how the porch roof is supported by the house on two sides. The porch post only supports one-fourth of the total roof and floor loads. Nevertheless, the porch roof structure is heavy and must be ...More…
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Porch Replacement:
Hammer Zone — Repair and remodeling of an old-house porch, ledger joist installation. We cut away wood sheathing that interferes with the new porch, apply primer to the old framing to deter rot, and install a new 2x6 ledger board. After the old porch decking ...More…
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Building A Concrete Footing
Hammer Zone — Building a reinforced concrete footing for a porch or deck support post. We dig a deep hole, build a quick 2x8 footing form, mix up some concrete and pour it in. And we add some re-bar and an anchor bolt. This article describes the procedure for ...More…
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Designing Stairs and
Hammer Zone — Home improvement information describing procedure of designing and laying out stairs. Stair building is one of the most complex aspects of carpentry. My experience is that a good and accurate design is the only way to approach any complex ...More…
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Building New Porch Steps -
Hammer Zone — We wanted to build a durable set of porch stairs with a handrail. Many exterior stair stringers simply rest on concrete pads set on the ground, as in this example. My experience is that such stairs tend to shift up and down over time, which may ...More…
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Building Basic Deck Stairs
Hammer Zone — Supporting structure is added to the deck frame, stair stringers are laid out to visualize the project, holes are dug for handrail posts, stair stringers are attached, then riser and tread surfaces are installed. I recently modified a deck for ...More…