Sunday, January 13, 2013

It's alive! It's alive! - Arbor

After a few more days' work, the arbor is in the ground.  Painted the last two legs Thursday, assembled the gate-side tower on Friday, sunk it and joined the two towers together Saturday.



Since, by definition, this arbor is to support green growth, I need to mount something for vines to climb.  I'm running in deck screws on vertical and horizontal members along certain surfaces then weaving synthetic string/rope along them to create a grid.  The screws are left out approx 1/2" to give the string something to be woven around.

I decided on that method instead of purchasing or building lattice material because I figured that my idea would be somewhat cheaper and so I could simply throw out my trellis (ie woven string) if removing vines became too cumbersome.

I installed the screws on the box-side tower yesterday.  I have them spaced 4" apart both vertically and horizontally. 

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