The side of the carport has had some attentions and is looking all that I hoped it would, there will be a gap at the top and there are still 2 more pieces to be painted and screwed in place to add some protection to the car this may not happen for a while as I would need to remove it when I do some concrete work but then it is looking so nice I want to get it finished, the corrugated tin is what I have rescued from the garage roof and cleaned up hoping it will last a few years, the rusty top side I have put to the inside after grinding and priming the rust areas so the good under side is out to the 
weather, the 2 opening windows came from one of the house windows and has been fixed in the wooden framing, this enables me to see out into the garden and monitor the rapid growth of some of our veges, we could not eat the marrow fast enough and gave many away we have plenty of pumpkins so we hope they will keep into the winter.
While I waited for the shower tray to be made I thought I would touch up the new secondhand door for the back of the house, the weather had got into the coating on the bottom of the door and thinking I could touch it up started to give it a light sand around the affected areas only to find the top coat just flaked away leaving a very hard first layer, I knew that top layer would just keep falling away as it had not adhered to the hard first coating so I set about to strip the whole one side including making a new shape on the panels as the original profile was to difficult to clean up successfully, its an 8 panel door that I spent about 8 hours scraping and sanding and that is only one side, I now have a new door frame that has some brush strip down both sides, the wood leaning against the door is matai and was the window sill to the window in the front of the garage till a year ago it is a lovely rich piece of wood and must be very old looking at the growth rings and the window it came from was old it will be clear coated the frame 
The shower tray has a protective white plastic coating over the stainless steel, I have embedded 6mm stainless steel in timber and filled up the step then glued triangle ply panels to the back side of the tray and created as much fall as possible towards the water drain I have bolted stainless steel brackets on the step for the glass panels to sit on, there will be a fixed side glass panel and a fixed front panel then a sliding door about 600mm wide.
More on this next time.
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