So a while back, Matt noticed something funny about our garage door. Mainly that the support holding the track wasn't really quite as sturdy as one would hope. In fact, the track is attached to a 2x6 which is attached to the beam at the top of the garage. Now, because of this set up, and because the 2x6 is only really supported about halfway up, there's been quite a bit of pressure for probably many years on it, and well, it just couldn't take it anymore and cracked.
Here you can see Matt pointing out the crack.
And here you can see that not only was it cracked, it was actually split right through. Not ideal, when you consider it was holding up the very heavy garage door over our rather important cars...
So, Matt replaced it. Turns out it was actually pretty difficult and required him to shave off a bit of the face of the 2x6 that he replaced the old board with. But, being the rockstar he is, he got it done and up.(that's a shadow, not a crack, I promise)
And here it is, good as new.
The next night, he finished up a project that we started quite some time ago. Like, seriously long ago. But that's ok, at least we are getting back to it. On the up side, it went pretty quick this time because, well, for one, we've done it before, and two, I cut the piece when we did the first project so we didn't have to do any measuring or anything. And, I'm saying we, but honestly, Matt did the whole thing while I made dinner. The only thing I did was hold the piece in place while he put in the first nails.
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