Comments on: Cheap Like Me? Make Your Own Screen Door

By: Sawdust

Sawdust — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 01:35:42 +0000

About those cats “hanging around”.

Unless I’m blind, it appears “somebody” setup a buffet line!

Have you ever heard of a guy named Pavlov?

By: jaysprague

jaysprague — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:07:22 +0000

…nice, real nice

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:27:52 +0000

Well, it’s been up for several years now, and it’s still holding together just fine. So I guess the answer is yes

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:25:47 +0000

It is indeed LVL. We wrote about that bench in the Nov 2009 issue: http://www.shopwoodworking.com/digital-issue-popular-woodworking-november-2009?lid=MWpwbl091012

By: jamierodg

jamierodg — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:12:04 +0000

Seriously…. you want to know why she used poplar? ’cause she was doing POPLAR WOODWORKING!

By: Danny H.

Danny H. — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:10:09 +0000

Sorry to bother you again ,but I’m curious about the work bench top in this blog. It looks like it’s made out of the stuff they use to manufacture beams or trusses, you know, the flack board with lot’s of glue. Am I right, or is it something else.

By: Danny H.

Danny H. — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:01:51 +0000

Megan, I know I’m coming in late on this blog , but I just came across it and I just had to let you in on a “cat tip”. Cat’s, as you may know, like to mark their territory. And at my house they were marking the front door. To solve this I installed a shinny ( see your reflection in) kick plate along the bottom of the door. Problem solved. This really works !

By: Greg Little

Greg Little — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:49:50 +0000

It must be screen door week. I just finished building a new screen door from teak to replace a home depot overpriced aluminum screen door with a with a particle board filling that was falling apart. I used lap joints with teak pegs on the top and bottom and mortise and doweled tenon joints on the center rail 6 coats of spar varnish, some 3 " solid brass hinges from Lowes that were only $2.99 each on a closeout sale. I had the local hardware store make 2 screens with a heavy sunscreen mounted in a dark aluminum frame. I routed out a 3/8" x 3/4" rabbit to set the new screens in an covered it with a teak trim held in with stainless screws. My wife and I have 4 cats and are hoping they spare the screen from their claws.

By: Ernie Gradillas

Ernie Gradillas — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:15:01 +0000

Megan:
You could’ve put raised panels in the bottom portion of the door instead of screen. That would keep the cats out/in.

Will poplar hold up to outside conditions, even if it’s painted? You also say you started with 5/4 stock, preumably surfaced on 2 sides which leaves you, after milling, with a board width of close to 1". If you plan to put a latch on your door, will you have enough width to accomodate the mechanism? Your project looks nice.

By: Sandy Navas

Sandy Navas — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:21:00 +0000

Megan, don’t let Al know, but I’ll take three cats – long-haired ones. When can you bring them up?

Sandy