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Carl G

Marblehead, MA
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About Me:

Do-it-yourselfer

Favorite area of home improvement:

carpentry and electrical work


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  • This is the ladder 4
  • This is the trellis.  Process follows.... 3
  • Getting set up - brought everything I would need (mostly) out through the bulkhead (which I rebuilt last year - brag)
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Re-purposed Ladder Becomes Trellis

We've had an old wooden ladder leaning up against a fence behind a row of trees in our back yard for several years. When we had the trees (diseased) cut down we found it and saw that It ...»
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Carl G Marblehead, MA
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    The vertical parts of the trellis were made from the two parts of the extension ladder. One ...»
    part is narrower than the other so that it can slide inside the wider one. The horizontal piece needed to be wider at one end and narrower at the other to match up to the width of each vertical. There were also some rotted rungs. So I took apart the shorter piece that was to be used as the horizontal/top piece that had been cut off the the wider ladder and reassembled it to taper to match the width needed at each end.

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  • Ready for spindle brackets - other than screws and nails - the only new parts of the trellis. 1
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Carl G Marblehead, MA
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    Commented on Jun 03, 2013
    In the background you can see my electric palm tree. My wife lets me have the one tacky item ...»
    in the yard - it makes me smile. For a while we had a flock of pink flamingos but they have flown away. My wife has made the yard beautiful.

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  • Cabinets closed 2
  • cabinets open. Hard to tell on these photos but cabinet opens to reveal 3 storage areas.  Each outside door is pegboard on top and shelves at the bottom.  Center unit is walled up half way with places to hang on each side and above center divider is shelving. 4
  • close-up of one side and the center unit.  all three are hinged with piano hinge on back and caster on the base for moving around. 2

I finally got tired of having all my tools scattered all over my garage and decided to build 4 cabinets to hold it all

(well, almost all). They are on casters so I can roll them around when needed, but you must roll them out to open them up.
Richard H
Richard H Wylie, TX
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  • Carl G
    Commented on Feb 12, 2012
    Nice idea. No matter how often I clear out my garage and re-organize it, it always ends up ...»
    cluttered. The car hasn't been in it in decades.

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Maximize use of narrow kitchen table area

Our kitchen has a narrow part (27" X 76") where we for many years had a parson's table. The table was rarely used as we eat at our dining room table. After many years of using the ...»
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Carl G Marblehead, MA
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  • Carl G
    Commented on Oct 24, 2010
    We haven't eaten as much as a sandwich on that counter. It still gathers miscellaneous ...»
    papers, etc. But we are more mindful of it so we tend to keep it neat and to clear off the junk more rapidly. As for the storage space, it is full already, but has helped a good deal.

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