{"id":20920,"date":"2020-10-31T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/?p=20920"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:37","slug":"kennel-project-lumber-rack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/kennel-project-lumber-rack\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennel Project: Lumber Rack Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Saturday.\u00a0 Marie is home.\u00a0 She can help keep an eye on the inside dogs, so I can work outside more than I can during the week.\u00a0 I’ve accomplished several things, but the big task for today was to cart all the lumber on this lumber rack: (and if you can’t tell, that pile goes all the way up to the rafters),<\/p>\n

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Lumber rack on the wall to the left MUST go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

and move it to some place other than where it is: out of that building.\u00a0 That means putting it in some other building where it will still be in my way, but in a different place.<\/p>\n

I accomplished that:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Once I remove a few screws the racks will come down and the whole wall will be clear.<\/p>\n

I also went ahead and laid out my divider walls, which is not as simple as one would think.<\/p>\n

Originally I planned to make three inside kennels; each 8 feet wide to match the three outside kennels.\u00a0 Simple.\u00a0 We even cut the doorways in, on that thought.\u00a0 But then I decided I didn’t need that much space in the inside kennels.\u00a0 Too much room encourages dogs to poop in a far corner and live with it.\u00a0 Less space means less temptation to do that.<\/p>\n

I would like to have an inside space as an ICU room for recent surgery patients and dogs going through heart worm treatment.\u00a0 That means a smaller space: 4′ x 4′ is enough.\u00a0 I’ll take that dog outside on a leash.<\/p>\n

That window you see messes up the idea of just dividing the remaining space into three equal rooms.\u00a0 And I need to keep the doors in mind, leaving room on either side of the doors to mount slide hardware for vertically sliding doors to shut the dog in or out (and keep the cold out at night).<\/p>\n

With the wall clear I did some laying out on the wall with an orange lumber marking crayon.\u00a0 What works best is on the left, the 4 x 4 ICU, with the wall just to the left of the first doorway (currently being blocked with a piece of plywood to keep Siri where she belongs since the roll-up door is open).\u00a0 Kennel #1 and Kennel #2 are 5 feet long (by 4 feet deep)\u00a0 and kennel #3 is 6 feet 8 inches long.\u00a0 This one could be used as a double should I have two dogs who cohabitate well.\u00a0 Or one really big dog.<\/p>\n

The walls between kennels will be 4″ wide concrete block, 6 feet high and I will cover the tops of the kennels with fencing like I did outside so dogs can’t climb out.\u00a0 But not until I get the insulation in and drywall ceiling up and painted.\u00a0 Each kennel will have a chain link front panel with a door (gate) in it so I can access the space from inside the kennel building.\u00a0 Once the building is emptied of lumber I can use that big empty space for training and storage.<\/p>\n

I’ll remove the roll-up garage door and fill in the opening with a combination of block wall (where the ICU\u00a0 kennel is) and wood-frame wall (out in the main room where dogs won’t be likely to be digging at it or chewing on it).\u00a0 Know anyone who wants a garage door with electric opener?\u00a0 No remote, though.<\/p>\n

I will seal the block walls and paint them some bright color.\u00a0 I would like to use epoxy garage floor sealer to ease keeping the floors clean.\u00a0 Since I don’t have a floor drain, interior clean-up will be done with a mop and bucket.<\/p>\n

Last night I ordered all the chain link connectors, corners, clips, clamps, bolts, ties, and such from an on-line wholesaler I’ve used twice before and been happy with.\u00a0 Next week I will go to Home Depot to get the top rails, tension bars, fence fabric, and the 36 cement blocks I need for the first divider wall.\u00a0 None of that stuff can be economically shipped to me.\u00a0 I hope it all fits in my truck!<\/p>\n

Then I will try my hand as a block-layer.\u00a0 A first for me, but … how hard can it be, right?<\/p>\n

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Hopefully I’ll do better than this!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Saturday.  Marie is home.  She can help keep an eye on the inside dogs, so I can work outside more than I can during the week.  I’ve accomplished several things, but the big task for today was to cart all the lumber on this lumber rack: (and if you can’t tell, that pile goes … Continue reading “Kennel Project: Lumber Rack Removal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[160,59],"class_list":["post-20920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-construction","tag-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20920"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20928,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20920\/revisions\/20928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}