Huge improvement for little cost. A word of advice to anyone doing this: make sure your screws go into the TOP of the ridges on your roofing panels. Water runs off of them and flows down through the valley sections. Much less chance of leakage
You can't do this with cold iron. You need to get it really, really hot. Hotter than your oven can make it. You need to get it RED HOT. You can get this fixed if you have a blacksmith in your area who has a furnace. You sometimes find them at Machine Shops or even at independent smithies, though they are becoming more and more rare every day.
6 years ago, Reliabilt probably wasn't owned by Jeld-Wen, but they have been for a while now. They're now essentially the same company. This is for anyone that is just seeing the video.
I warped a Field cast iron skillet, and when it cooled, it went back to normal. I’m now sure what caused it out how it fixed itself, but it was fixed by cooling.
i have a bunch of bandanas that my dog wears as a collar, they’re all so tight i was afraid i’d have to throw them away, gonna try this method right now. THANKS!
How has this held up? I want to use this type of framing to start building a garage type structure! Mine is fully in closed with tarp though it’s a 13 x 25 carport from bed bath and beyond
Why didn’t you just clamp the top ridge board instead of screwing it. You could use pipe clamps/c to attach boards instead of drilling through the pipe. Add ridge cap as you go.
I was just avblout to buy this door and I decided to check if someone has experience with Reliabilt. Great comparison> Lowes and Home Deport are across the street from each other. You saved me a ton of time and headaches. Thank you again Much success to you and yours
The reinforcements are superb! The frame usually isn't the weak point in the HF garage/hangar, though. See: Portable Shelters - Make them last 10 years! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_bwdyh1Dy0Y.html. It correctly identifies the plastic covering as the primary problem. It isn't treated for UV resistance & rapidly deteriorates in sunlight. Its lifespan is a max of 2 years before it rips, flaps in the wind and shreds (<1 year in my CA bright sunlight experience). The maker of the video linked above simply added an additional tarp over the top which he replaces regularly as it deteriorates, keeping the original HF covering intact. Comments to this video also suggest using HF tarps. Their plastics rarely contain UV inhibitors, tend to be thin, & usually aren't a bargain. 10 cents/sf+ is a common price for poly tarps from all vendors. UV inhibitors cost extra and are usually advertised in tarps which contain them (like greenhouse plastic which often has a 4-year warranty). Tarp thickness is another major durability factor. Many are 5 mil or thinner. A 10mil tarp should be the minimum. Costco sells 2-packs of 12x16 tarps for less than $19 which do not specify thickness or UV inhibitors, but they appear to be about 10mil and are durable (2 years in moderately sun-exposed areas). At <5 cents/sf, they are half the cost/sf of much thinner, cheaper tarps. The dimension isn't perfect for the 10'x17' HF garage, but part of a tarp from an extra Costco 2-pack allows for lapping to create the required size at a lower total cost than larger, lower-quality tarps. UV deterioration is not the only problem. All coverings are difficult because (i) if unsecured over the large garage surface area, they repeatedly slam back & forth in the wind ("inflate" & "deflate") which further weakens them. The problem is that (ii) if secured to extra frame members (pipes, conduit, wood, etc), the penetrations leak and propagate tears. Mongolian yurts and teepee shelters used by nomadic Siberian herders solve the problem by roping across the surface of large coverings to secure them without penetrations. Greenhouse growers use the same technique. Roping from the base of the HF garage continuously across the roof in a number of places goes a long way to limit the wind slamming which prematurely weakens all fabric coverings. For added durability, the maker of the video linked above added a framed, plywood-sheared end wall.
Was hoping you’d post a year later update. My Costco 10x20 carport just failed from 22” of snow. Was gonna just trash what’s left of it but I’ll rebuild it if I can find steel couplings same diameter as the Costco pipe, lost most of the roof tubing, severely crushed.
How'd you get up to the peak to put the screws in for the top cap? Just climb on the roof? Was this before you added the wood cross beams for strength?
Get job. I have my firewood under a shelter just like that. Every year i am off to Northern Tool for a new tarp. Your design was so simple but it works. Thanks for putting it on RU-vid!!
I interned at an iron foundry. There's a reason that pipe couplings are made out of "ductile" iron, because the formula for cast iron pans is most certainly too brittle for those applications. The pipe couplings have additives in the iron that greatly reduce the brittleness.
