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12th August 2007, 01:00 AM #1
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My very first box
This was actually the first box I ever did. I never really thought of it as a "box." But since I posted the "country style" planter I did last week for my wife I thought I might as well share this one as well.My main pupose in building it was to stop people from parking thier cars right in front of my garage. There is one box on either side of the garage door which opens right up onto the street. It has been tested by a car or two and has came out looking better than the cars, though one of the boxes was damaged when it was nudged by a backhoe when they repaved the street earlier this year.
Since it is a planter, it does not have a wooden bottom, but instead a stainless steel barbeque grill covered by a felt-like cloth stapled to the inside, covered by a layer of gravel, then sand, then a sand dirt mixture. This was to provide drainage for the plants. The wood is ground-contact rated framing lumber stained with red-wood stain of some kind.“When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think...that a time is to come when those (heirlooms) will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, ‘See! This our father did for us.’ “ --John Ruskin. Audels Carpenters and Builders Guide, 1923 Theo Audel & CO. New York.
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12th August 2007, 02:16 PM #2
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Very nice indeed! Beautiful planter box!
Corey
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13th August 2007, 11:33 AM #3
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Nice.
Hmm...is it possible to stain permapine like that? Anyone got any pics of stained permapine?Those are my principles, and if you don't like them . . . well, I have others.
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13th August 2007, 12:12 PM #4
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It had been raining for a week when the pic was taken and that changes the look. The color when dry is not so deep and rich, much closer to a reddish brown. The lumber is from Canada and is exactly the same as was used in "The Country Style Box" posted in another recent thread. The box has been out in the weather for a little over four years now and has only the orginal application of stain, two or three coats, not really sure at this point. The treated lumber seems to be resisting rot very well. No signs of deteriation at this point. A tag I got off one of my recent boards said it was treated with Copper Arsenic. I found another tag that came off a recent board reads like this:
KUEN JIN CCA
CNS3000 W1/K5 0.6 KDAT
SYP S4S Ground Contact
Anyone know how to decifer that code?
Cheers.“When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think...that a time is to come when those (heirlooms) will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, ‘See! This our father did for us.’ “ --John Ruskin. Audels Carpenters and Builders Guide, 1923 Theo Audel & CO. New York.
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