Sorry I've been a little absent here lately guys.
Progress is still happening in the bunker section. We are just working on completing the bookcase door to the tunnel.
Whaddya think?
Originally I was planning on having a bookcase door, basically just a bookcase on door hinges. I finally calling my carpenter and we got looking at it. The problem was, the opening was just to big to have it swing out and look good. So I suggested a pocket door.
Soo....
I DID have this room all sheetrocked and painted. But in order to do this, I tore out the one wall, and had it re-framed out to hold the bookcase
Closeup of where we will be mounting all the hardware
So the basic idea was, to mount garage door tracking along the top of the concrete wall, then put a 2x4 mounted to a header along the other side. Once we had the track mounted, he took measurements and starded building the bookcase. In the pic below, you can see all the bolts used to mount the wheels to the top of the bookcase. It's some serious hardware... :smash:
Being delivered
Mounting it took a couple of hours of monkeying around with stuff.
Success!
Took quite a bit of adjusting to get it to close right. We used a gate opening motor. Which is ok.. I was under the impression that it had adjustable speeds, but it turned out that it didn't. So even after the adjusting, it still rocks a little as it opens. But I'm hoping after the final trim work is done that it will tighten up..
Drywall on..
Progress is still happening in the bunker section. We are just working on completing the bookcase door to the tunnel.
Whaddya think?
Originally I was planning on having a bookcase door, basically just a bookcase on door hinges. I finally calling my carpenter and we got looking at it. The problem was, the opening was just to big to have it swing out and look good. So I suggested a pocket door.
Soo....
I DID have this room all sheetrocked and painted. But in order to do this, I tore out the one wall, and had it re-framed out to hold the bookcase
Closeup of where we will be mounting all the hardware
So the basic idea was, to mount garage door tracking along the top of the concrete wall, then put a 2x4 mounted to a header along the other side. Once we had the track mounted, he took measurements and starded building the bookcase. In the pic below, you can see all the bolts used to mount the wheels to the top of the bookcase. It's some serious hardware... :smash:
Being delivered
Mounting it took a couple of hours of monkeying around with stuff.
Success!
Took quite a bit of adjusting to get it to close right. We used a gate opening motor. Which is ok.. I was under the impression that it had adjustable speeds, but it turned out that it didn't. So even after the adjusting, it still rocks a little as it opens. But I'm hoping after the final trim work is done that it will tighten up..
Drywall on..
