Past Due Images of Gazebo
I fianlly took the last picture of the painted gazebo/arbor, so here they are!
First we make 4 holes, 3 feet deep with these
The hole
Then we put these erm tubes to pour cement into
That is how it looks
We start placing the beams for the frame
As you can see it is not too big, 8x8
The tube lever, the lever, shovel, the erm... mixing thing, and the trowel
Okay so we poured the cement into the tube and settled some clamps with about 8-inch screws. This is done to anchor the gazebo as well as prevent cracking when cement expands during the cold weather, etc.
A different view of the same thing
The whole structure up and still not completely secure. This was done 2 days after the setting of the cement
From this view you can see we hadn’t leveled the base. Once that got done everything straightened out pretty well.
Spacd out ceiling to let all that nice Texas sun thru
A more ‘Artistic’ view
So here we are leveling the base and setting the steps to start nailing the floor.
Not completely leveled.
Ah! This is more like it.
Beams for the floor.
The pretty floor. We finished late but finished.
The finished gazebo, unpainted.
The finished gazebo with paint!
Artistic close-up? :p
A view from away... with the base for the brick grill, but that’s another project.
9 Comments:
Very cool. It will look very nice when the ivy is growing over the top of it. Or grapes! A brick grill will be cool too.
I like it. I can just imagine you out there of a warm evening sipping wine. I'm jealous.
You guys get cold enough for cement to crack?
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry, I had to point that out. Ah... I've lived in Alaska too long.
It does look nice though.
"I can just imagine you out there of a warm evening sipping wine."
Or whiskey. They're from Texas, y'know. ^_^
Karnov, Jack Daniels baby! And don't forget the frosty drinks.
TS, it's actually at my mom's place so I won't be doing much louging in there. Well, not until we finish the grill that is, 'cause my Hubby loves bbqs.
Lore. Ha. Ha. Very funny. Well I'll let you know that it Does get very cold down here. A shocking 65 degrees, thank you very much! :p hahahah
Only 65 degress? That's tank tops and shorts weather! :P :D :D :D :D
:P yeah well... whutever!
Sorry ... I don't really know much about Texans
One of my two best buddies, Jack. The other one is Jim. ^_^
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