I’m going to build an arch right here.
This is a two-man job, and I was planning on the New Guy’s help, but he showed up to work in his fishing clothes and asked for the entire day off.
The first thing I did was mark the center of the opening; then I measured down five feet.
I installed a board at this height with a screw in the center.
I hooked a string to the screw and used it as a fulcrum to mark out a 5’ radius for the arch, which is technically an ellipse.
I used the piece we cut out as a template to mark another piece of OSB for the back side of the arch.
You can see here there’s a header above to transfer the weight- this arch is purely decorative; but it does need to have some strength because it gets wrapped in stone.
Next, I cut a whole bunch of blocks 7 ¼” long and I used these to fill in between the two arches.
I used ½” Pressure Treated plywood for the bottom of the Arch and made kerf cuts into it so it would bend to the shape of the arch.
Here you can see what it looks like all finished up.
Let me know in the comments if you know someone like the New Guy that works really hard at getting out of work. @hausplans
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