Mike Seals
06-16-2007, 8:26 PM
I'm down to the last of the hurricane Rita rebuilds, the last thing is a pump house for the Koi pond. It's built to look like a clock tower, tall and thin and inside is the pump/s that keep the water circulating and the one that feeds the water wheel, about five feet tall WW.
Since this thing sits out in the weather, I used treated lumber for everything except the trough that feeds the water wheel, don't want to kill the fish. Then I'm covering the outside with Cedar to give it a kind of lap siding look. The sole window (so far) is stained glass that faces the water wheel, I figured with a light fixed up near the inside peak, the stained glass would give a nice soft glow to the water wheel at night. Any way I have to make a door and all the treated 2x4s around here are so green and wet, that I can't find one that in a few days doesn't bow one way or another.
Does anyone have any good ideas on how to build a good straight door that can take the weather? The door needs to be 28Wx53T to cover the opening.
Since this thing sits out in the weather, I used treated lumber for everything except the trough that feeds the water wheel, don't want to kill the fish. Then I'm covering the outside with Cedar to give it a kind of lap siding look. The sole window (so far) is stained glass that faces the water wheel, I figured with a light fixed up near the inside peak, the stained glass would give a nice soft glow to the water wheel at night. Any way I have to make a door and all the treated 2x4s around here are so green and wet, that I can't find one that in a few days doesn't bow one way or another.
Does anyone have any good ideas on how to build a good straight door that can take the weather? The door needs to be 28Wx53T to cover the opening.