Canvas top for a garden gazebo
Photo: Inside attic, metal supportstraps are pop-riveted to duct and nailed to roof framing members. Arrangement of supports in your attic would depend on framing structure, length and angle of ductPiping daylight into this windowless powderroom is a short length of galvanized sheet-metal heating duct. Phoenix architect William P. Bruder designed and installed several of these inexpensive ceiling shafts in Linda and Chuck Redman's Tempe house.For the roof, an awning maker stretchedsailcloth over an arc-welded frame of aluminum pipe. The vanvas wraps tautly around aluminum struts fastened to the horizontal pipes with sheet metal screws. Bolts through L-brackets bent into a V secure the frame to the columns.Construction was simple. Using a sabersaw, Bruder cut aligned holes in the rolled roofing and decking and the gypsum board ceiling. These holes measure only slightly larger than the diameter of the duct. (A steeply pitched roof would require an elliptical hole; for a hole-cutting template, use a section of the duct cut at an angle to match the pitch of the roof.)
Photo: Light aluminum frame seems to float abovemassive column. Hidden V-shaped bracket actually links center pipe with post
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