FloorThis week I finally started working on the deer blind. The first step in the process was to build the lower floor of the blind. I am making the floor of the deer blind 4ft by 4ft. This size was chosen because the pallets that I am going to use for the wall are that long and there's no way for me to alter the length of the pallets. For the floor I made a square with one piece of wood in the middle for supports. The building of this piece of the project went relatively smoothly. The only problem I ran into was using too short of nails to secure pieces to each other. This caused the boards to come apart because they were not held together strongly enough. All I needed to do to fix this problem was redo the nails with longer screws. I plan to later put a piece of plywood over the floor so I can stand on it. Unfortunately I did not have the plywood, so I will have to wait until next week to finish the floor of the blind. Lower supportsThis week I also completed the lower supports of the blind. The 4 by 4 board that I had purchased earlier for the lower supports was 8ft long. I cut the board into four 2ft long pieces to use to raise the blind of the ground. It is lower than I had originally planned, but with the price of wood being so high right, it is all I really want to pay for now. Attaching the posts to the floor was quite easy to do. Next weekNext week I plan to brace the lower legs of the blind, cut the plywood for the floor, and install the plywood onto the floor. I do need to purchase the wood to finish that piece next week. However, there should be no problem with completing this piece.
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AuthorI'm Ty and these blog posts are to show off my progress for my Genius Hour project. Archives
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