Planter that fits around 6x6 post
lyndy
16 years ago
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Comments (5)Hi Lynn, love your adobe look walls in the front and your view in the back is wonderful. I'm glad you plan on preserving your view in the back and think it's great that you're thinking of water conservation. Since you're close to Santa Fe I hope you've been to High Country Gardens/Santa Fe greenhouse. I've been buying plants mail order from them for fifteen years and I understand they have some great waterwise landscaping at thier store in Santa Fe. In this month(Sept.) issue of Sunset magazine there is a Santa Fe landscape with adobe walls and a planter against the wall like what you are talking about. It does have a lot of plants in the ground also but it is a great backyard landscape by Wilder Landscaping. Your idea of all raised planters sounds very attractive and ambitious. I know you where conscerned about the heat situation with all that masonry. All your walls would act as a heat sink collecting the warmth during the day and then radiating it out at night. You would have cooler temperatures in the mornings from the walls and warmer temperatures at night. About the planters using less water I can't get around this idea. Planters because they are exposed to the hot summer air on the sides as well as from overhead actually heat up the soil more than in ground plantings. This makes them use more water not less. Of course you are talking about other issues too such as ease of planting and not having to deal with your rocky soil. Mulch is a great way to help keep soil cooler and use less water, rock mulch for more deserty type plants and organic mulch for others. And your shade trees will really cool things off for you too. If you use plants well adapted to your area you could really keep your water use down and not have to feel like you need all the planters....See MoreUsing cinder block wall as Tomato planter
Comments (6)One thing you would have to deal with is the extreme drainage. Water seeps out of/is wicked away by the cinder block, or most cinder blocks anyway, the $2 masonry blocks. Thus I think that growing a plant in that narrow cinder block column would not work well unless you do something to counter-act this, and even then I think that the long narrow column would be kind of hard for the plant to get used to. I want to try growing hot peppers in the blocks, because I am hoping they will serve as a good heat sink and help keep the plants warm. In my case though it will be just a single block buried halfway in the ground....See MoreSubways on shower, 6x6 on wall???
Comments (10)Thanks everyone!!! I still don't know what the heck to do. I did, however, go ahead and order my listello pieces. And damn it, the tigers eye glass pieces are nothing like the color in my sample. I was beyond irritated but I don't have the strength to start over. Guess I'll learn to love it. Wish I could post a pic or drawing of my bathroom, but I am clueless. I'll try to explain. When you walk through the door from the living area into the bath, on your left is the alcove that will have my shower...no tub, just shower. It is 5'5" long. On your right side will be the vanity and toilet. Then you walk on through another door that goes into a bedroom. So, the shower is on one side, vanity and toilet on the other and these two doors line up with each other on each end. I wanted to put subways on the shower and 6X6 on the wall behind vanity/toilet. OR, I could reverse that, I guess. What to do....what to do. I wish someone had a pic of what I'm thinking of doing. Toadangel, your pics gave me a little idea, but you have a tub with your subways, and your 4x4's are on a shower wall. Thank you so much for them, though. What a nice job! Maybe I'll post this on the decorating forum and see what ideas or pictures I might get over there. Thank you all soooooo much for your thoughts pup...See MoreDeck Railing and Post Sleeves
Comments (12)Really a problem how? I haven't built with any vinyl railings but I have put together multiple Radiance Rail and Ornamental Rail systems. You follow the directions, you cut carefully, it'll go fine. It takes a little more time than using 2x4s and 2x2s but it looks a lot nicer too. Porch guy, you crack me up. size and shape of deck, height from ground, thickness of flooring, 6x6s are "too big" - dude, w...t...f... none of that has anything to do with the choices available in railing systems. Gotta agree w/ Hyatt, you post some things that have me shaking my head! Garden_Junkie, if you're still wandering around this site, yes, you can shim out a 4x4 post to use those Deckorator rock sleeves. Try a 2x4 nailed to the inward facing side of the post and a 2x6 on the side facing the next post. See how the sleeve fits over that, you might need some additional shims to tighen the fit. If you have a table saw, you could also rip pieces to nail to the post for an exact fit. See if Deckorators will show you any of those post sleeves that have been installed for a year or two. Hyatt's got it - the stone sleeves are a new product...don't be Deckorators' guinea pig if they haven't worked out all the bugs! Mac...See MoreAdriana Gutierrez
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