Dan Lyke's Blog Archive
| This blog is written by Dan Lyke | 14 entries so far |
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A Shop for Dan #4: Engineering a wall
Any wall within 5 feet of a property line needs to be 1 hour rated. With a living roof, each end ...
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A Shop for Dan #3: Musings on foundations
Okay, the Tuff Shed folks left us thinking that all we needed to do was provide a couple of level...
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A Shop for Dan #2: Thinking about living roofs
I’m still looking for reasonable numbers on roof loads for a living roof. I’ve run ac...
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A Shop for Dan #1: The state of what is
We live in a little 768 square foot cottage on a little lot on the southern edge of Sonoma county...
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Cedar Closets #1: Destruction and construction
Just lining our closets with cedar, to make sure we don’t have moth issues, and splitting o...
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Front Door Trim #4: Ipe threshold
With the coming of fall weather, the gap underneath the door finally got annoying to the po...
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Front Door Trim #3: Making an entrance
It’s gonna be hotter than the hinges of Hades today, so I went out this morning and f...
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Morning Glory Lattice #1: The bare lattice
On the left is how it looks now, on the right is how it used to look. You may think it’...
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Front Door Trim #2: A couple pieces of trim
The progress on the new front door continues. In my previous front door update, I’d m...
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Front Door Trim #1: A door well hung
On the left, how it looked when we moved in, on the right, how it looks as of right now. Th...
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New Windows #1: A false start
Last week, some door to door sales guys came by pitching replacement windows. I thought “th...
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Reclaiming Mahogany for Baseboards #3: Decisions, decisions
Took the weekend off to go buy lunch for a starving college student, and drive 3 hours each way f...
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Reclaiming Mahogany for Baseboards #2: Milling
Yesterday I ripped the boards down to 4” wide, the widest I felt that I could reasonabl...
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Reclaiming Mahogany for Baseboards #1: Breaking down the beams
We picked up a bunch of Peruvian mahogany box beams off of Craigslist. They’ve been si...
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Blog Series
- A Shop for Dan - 4 parts
- Cedar Closets - 1 part
- Front Door Trim - 4 parts
- Morning Glory Lattice - 1 part
- New Windows - 1 part
- Reclaiming Mahogany for Baseboards - 3 parts
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