tent addition to the shop.

**Frank S** · Mar 29, 2022, 02:53 PM

I don't know if this is going to be a temporarily permanent or a permanently temporary addition to the back of my shop since it is right where I want to eventually set my American lathe. But for now a paint booth is going to be set up inside of it.
I started off by laying down 50 cu yards of the red clay dirt

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Then anchored some supports to the East wall

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Then started installing the structure

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Finished off by wrapping all sharp corners with rags to protect the plastic sheeting

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**old kodger** · Mar 30, 2022, 02:48 AM

That's some bloody "shed" you've got there frank.

**DIYer** · Mar 30, 2022, 05:00 AM

Thanks Frank S! We've added your Tent Structure to our Storage and Organization category,
as well as to your builder page: Frank S's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Tent Structure by Frank S

tags: storage

**baja** · Mar 30, 2022, 09:32 AM

Great idea for using with old billboard vinyls. They frequently come my way and are used in lots of different situations. I acquired an HF 10'x10' shed frame with no fabric and a 10'x20' advertising vinyl fits it perfectly.

**Frank S** · Mar 30, 2022, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by baja

Great idea for using with old billboard vinyls. They frequently come my way and are used in lots of different situations. I acquired an HF 10'x10' shed frame with no fabric and a 10'x20' advertising vinyl fits it perfectly.

That is what I will be covering this frame work with I have a 17x48 vinyl which will cover the top and both ends plus half way down the side, the remainder of the side will have a 6 mill clear plastic stretched over it to allow light in, one end will be left as a flap for entry. The paint we will be using on the things we will be coating required about 50% humidity to cure properly so before we hang anything from the overhead pipes we will wet the ground with a few hundred gallons of water allow it to soak in the tent itself will serve as a huge humidor chamber which with our normally too low humidity the moisture in the ground should be sufficient to raise the humidity enough for our purpose

**Frank S** · Mar 30, 2022, 10:01 PM

I was hoping to get the billboard tarp on the frame today but the wind did not cooperate.
Trying to wrestle and secure a nearly 900 sq ft tarp weighing 150 lbs while battling a 25 MPH wind with 35 MPH guests my myself is not my idea of safe fun while on a scaffold. Tomorrow the wind is supposed to be much calmer and out of an different direction so I enlisted a helper

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**Frank S** · Mar 31, 2022, 11:33 AM

My helper showed up around 9 Am this morning I was hoping he would get here by 7:30 but you don't always get what you pay for now days. Anyway by 11:00 we had the tarp on the frame, and I cut him loose.