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Building a Pergola and Gate
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" fertilize an architectural device. Usually found in the garden in the landscape and usually put there to support to binder of growing plant of some sort. And this is a rather extraordinary designed by our homeowner or architect. That involves just tripled up. Two by eights -- this rather unusual angle cut. On all the ends and I'm not sure if the entry there will be just painted or there might be some metal cladding. But what's interesting is that what happened below this this pergola -- is rather. Complicated. Construction preparing gates and cornea want to interrupt you because I know that there aren't very many steps involved in giving the salt. Together and while working on here is basically the support for the gates right. Yes. We've set steel columns. There to hold the steel -- so there in concrete down there yes about three feet down and now at this point you've attacked you put in the the base elements of the car on the square in the circle. Base and they're glued together because they were cut in half an hour in order to fit around of the the -- steel column and what are these for wolf these will be -- To glue. The columns -- back together this week as well had to cut them in half to fitted around the hide my stick a look at their right up here against the defense. And so this is nice to be made is that -- and it's redwood had to return to St. Thomas had a columns on the back -- And we had. The -- them so it'll help with our alignment when we put them back together okay. And -- can I help you I mean are we ready to put down we're ready to do it just onto -- glue the dowels in place. Look at that we got enough glue on all of this of course the secret is to get the right amount of glue. -- now with clamps and how easy straps clamps."
" It's going to ratchet on it. Which will allow us."
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" OK can we get for these clamps on the column. I'll under the have to do they have to set about four hours we -- time all right we will be doing anymore column -- today let's talk about the gate. It's up pretty high gates. Yet seven foot that throughout the properties and why. -- also -- the code requires for the pool enclosure that gave the minimum five foot height OK and it's lightweight tubular steel they come up BCU. Yeah we do little twist here. It and -- yeah. Okay. This is -- We're in your frank why did you take this end over here we got to flip it around. There ago. Now any time you're joining wood to metal but they've got a little bit of a challenge of how are you doing it here. Well we use this. You've ahead self tapping screw yeah. And -- will go right through the -- and into the medal correct you have to predrill we do pre drill the woods knows you got a counter sinking bent right and that makes a big difference all right. Show strength where you get it started. Just anywhere. Wrong. And this is the first one and you had to drive you screw in the center. That allows you to build pivot the -- it snaps right into into the steel. Now let's load it up right we'll put all of month Gallup put each each board end here. All of the tongue and groove boards have been. But tightly together. And in order to attach them -- the steel frame we've gotta locate first of all exactly where the horizontal members of the steel -- located. And then at the trick is going to be to. Do all the pre drilling. Pat are you gonna secure this first before you can Seattle took this first screw and that is a -- temporary. They're self tapping. Okay now you're gonna move all the stock down a couple of inches of but so you can actually do the predrill. That's right."
" All right so now we have moved she went away from the actual metal frame and we'll do all the re drilling the whole picture -- which includes a little countersink. Troops will be flush with the wood."
" Shout from the other end it will -- tack them back into alignment with the metal. And we -- we start at that putting the now that is the cut off line. Basically an inch -- quarter above the top of peace deal and go ahead and cut it franken death. Let's take care of that."