Thursday, November 04, 2010

Kovering the Kitties

When we were trying to move out here, the county man told The Fuzz he would have to provide 2 points of "egress" before he (county guy) would sign off on things. So The Fuzz threw together this little porch.
That was OK at the time. But we needed a little covering over it now that the Kitties were living out there.
We still had a bit of salvaged tin left over from a similar project on the other "point of egress". So The Fuzz went to work on a plan.
He was going for a sort of minimalist approach this time, with no fancy carpentry involved.
He decided that it would be easier to build this thing on the ground (actually the floor of the future shed) and then, lift it into position. But there were a variety of complications of course. Due to the unavailability of the planned materials, he was forced to redesign. This necessitated a bit more "joinery" as can be seen here.
Finally, the thing was assembled. Now it was time for the, hopefully, simple installation. Here's a look at the plan. The ladder would be used to slide the roof up to the top of the porch (A) where it would swing down into position and be securely attached to the trailer (B). Then, the outer edge would be secured to the vertical supports, already there.
Unfortunately, this was one of those situations where things are not so simple as one might hope. The ladder shifted, the roof was too heavy and it hung up at the top. It took The Fuzz, His Sweetie and Young Daughter at least an hour to wrestle that thing into position. But in the end, I am happy to report, that they did finally get that thing up there.And here's a night pix. I just like these things.

2 comments:

vi said...

That's AWESOME!! :-)

Davey Doo said...

job well done