The weather was a little cooler that day so even though I thought I had let it dry long enough, the chilliness was preventing the paint from setting.
We had to get a little bit creative with our assembly methods here because this type of stainless steel actually comes on huge rolls and so it has a slight bend to it.We were able to fix that though, no problem!.
That saved us a ton of money.There are heavier stainless steels available, but the cost for the stainless steel for this project would have been about $250 instead of $40.Yay for saving money!.
So we applied some adhesive to the stainless steel and some stabilizer pieces and put the first panel together..The GE Iron Grip Adhesive offers up to 75% less clamp time than many other adhesives so it allows you to work much more quickly on projects like this.
We left our project clamped for about 2 or 3 hours and then we had a nice, straight, flat panel!.
…or so I thought.As is common here at The Creek Line House, at least one picture inadvertently revealed a little of our ‘reality’, that is, reality of life with 2 young children.
Let’s play spot the baby gate:.Luckily this time, our reality generated a little interest and we received a few requests on how we salvage-DIYed our baby gate to cover such a large opening.
This is a tough one to put into words and the success of the project – as with most salvage projects – is incredibly reliant on your access to the appropriate recycled components, but let’s give it a shot anyway:.For our DIY baby gate we used the 2 long identical sides from an old disassembled crib.
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