
Home made door frame improvement
I
would like to express some appreciation here for all the comments
lately, especially the tips given for the home
made door frame.
I thought adding another stop
plate to the hinge side was a great idea and jumped on it today while
at the same time deleting the L bracket, which is no longer needed
since the liquid nails has finished curing.
Would I build another door
frame from scratch in the future? Yeah...it wasn't all that bad and the
finished product will meet our needs for years to come.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Not a clue as to what it would cost, but I found the idea of the concrete canvas shelter very nifty.
It's like a balloon covered with gypsum (but then concrete) bandages which you wet out and then you blow op the balloon. Once the material has set you cut a door opening and you've got a ready-made shelter. It's an interesting organic-like shape as well.
I'm very intrigued with that website but nervous when a place demands you to call for a price. They say it depends on the volume of concrete and where it gets delivered.
Reminds me of the old Liberty ships from World War 2 that were made of concrete.
Maybe it is possible to do such a concrete shell construction yourself and on the cheap, using cement and a fiber reinforcement. Not sure what the latter should be. Natural fibres might be nice but would probably rot. Maybe fiberglass would work. Rigging a kind of tent and spraying it with shotcrete might work as well.
OTOH, cement is kinda porous. Fiberglass with polyester resin covered with an opaque topcoat would make a light, waterproof and surprisingly strong structure. But that may be the composite engineer side of me talking.
You are all so punny! Cheers me right up.
Soapboxtech and Daddy --- a few of our screws are Phillips screws, but most are actually square (with one box of star bits.) I have to say that it gets a bit confusing for me, having to swap out my bit when I want to change to longer or shorter screws, but you're totally right that the Phillips screws are much more likely to strip, especially when installed by someone like me who's a bit of an amateur...
Roland --- it sounds like you need to start experimenting! Fascinating ideas.
Mark, you might also want to look at timbrel vault construction. Not only is it beautiful (I think) and pretty easy to build, it's also very strong. Look at the people standing on those thin arches!