Shade house/Pergola

**pmcgee** · 5th January 2016, 04:13 PM

There was a possibility at one stage of completion within a month. Except for one thing ... there was an issue.
It looks simple now, but my brain wasn't accepting that proposition.
When I got the front of the pergola sorted out for plumb posts and square and level main stretchers and each of the profiled rafters, I later discovered that the main stretch front to back wasn't sat all the way into the bracket at the rear.

Setting that beam back properly into the bracket (about 40mm-50mm) threw out the setup at the front.
It was at about that point that my ability to analyse the situation collapsed into a pinhole.

... Fast forward about ten months to January 2016.

I get a bit of time to contemplate finishing this thing ... and realise that the insurmountable obstacle comes down to ...

... extending one mortice by 40mm.

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I had to find a heavily reinforced mirror to withstand a withering gaze I needed to direct at myself, and a search party has been organised to look for various sections of my brain.

-_-

**Sawdust Maker** · 6th January 2016, 10:52 AM

Sometimes the answer is so easy that it takes 10 or more months to rise to the surface of the grey matter

**pmcgee** · 11th January 2016, 08:07 AM

"Couldn't see the forest for the trees", perhaps.

(there were other demands on attention too, I'm gunna claim

)

But ... Progress today !

The long bearers have a thick old paint on, and have had no issue being outside all year.
The 'fresh' jarrah pieces had greyed up a little - sitting out there as raw wood - but not a great deal.

It all got taken down (simple job), belt-sanded back and a couple coats of paint.
Briskly hand-sanded the uprights in place.
Everything put back into almost to-be-permanent position - and lining it all up now was (again) almost no effort.
Very much liking that part of it ... seems like the previous preparation has paid dividends.

Something about the forum these days plays around with orientations (of photos) ... the long beam is one-year exposed jarrah, and the short ones have been sanded back.

20160110_162544 (Large).jpg ... and after for the long one ... 20160110_162604 (Large).jpg

Funny, picking them up again recently ... handling them ... I'm like "ooh .. they're solid".
1m long x 6" x 2" = 5kg each

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**pmcgee** · 11th January 2016, 10:17 AM

Where things stand at the end of sunday ...

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**pmcgee** · 11th January 2016, 10:38 AM

The mortice I extended still needs to grow a little further ... about the width of a pencil ... away from the house.

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(and I chiseled out some dodgy wood - will need to "bog it up")

Time passed has not been entirely wasted ... there has been the chance for data-gathering - on use of "construction adhesive".
This fill-in was just glued and clamped and has survived perfectly without any protection for a year ... (painted on sunday)

20160111_053434 (Large).jpg 20160111_053312 (Large).jpg (again with the rotating

)

as has this one ... same story. I put two screws into this one when I glued it.
Not sure why just this one and not the other ones as well.

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The patch to the last upright has moved about the width of a pencil lead on one side.
It's possible the patch wood was less dense than the pole ... or I didn't have it perfectly flat.
In any case ... I suspect it would/will be fine if it had been painted for the last year.

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**Sawdust Maker** · 11th January 2016, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by pmcgee

.

as has this one ... same story. I put two screws into this one when I glued it.
Not sure why just this one and not the other ones as well.

Maybe you meant to put a screw in each and got confused?

**pmcgee** · 11th January 2016, 10:49 AM

Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

Maybe you meant to put a screw in each and got confused?

Three poles, two screws, ... give me twelve months and I'll get back to you.

**Sawdust Maker** · 11th January 2016, 11:28 AM

**Christos** · 13th January 2016, 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by pmcgee

Three poles, two screws, ... give me twelve months and I'll get back to you.

**pmcgee** · 15th January 2016, 04:46 PM

I had a piece of this beam to glue back in ...

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but once I had it back down again, there's an unhelpful gum vein sloping up through there, so I decided to route out a repair.

(We'll see if both of these photos end up in landscape orientation)

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**pmcgee** · 15th January 2016, 04:55 PM

Yup.

Anyway ... easy-peasy, except for where I screwed up the depth-stop and dug in deeper than intended and had to fix that part of the fix.

So ...

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**artme** · 15th January 2016, 06:22 PM

At about this point I would have asked why i didn't get a new one!!

**Bushmiller** · 15th January 2016, 06:26 PM

Looks like Sawdust Maker and Chistos are the self-appointed chieftans of keeping people honest

.

Regards
Paul

**pmcgee** · 15th January 2016, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by artme

At about this point I would have asked why i didn't get a new one!!

'cos then I wouldn't have the opportunity to learn anything

... as opposed to having the opportunity, but stubbornly fighting against progress, reality and logic.

Paul
(Livin' the dream

)

**Sawdust Maker** · 16th January 2016, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Looks like Sawdust Maker and Chistos are the self-appointed chieftans of keeping people honest

.

Regards
Paul

Nah
We appointed each other!

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