My garden arch project

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When we moved in to this house there was a rotten old garden arch which needed replacing
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even the top had broken
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had to cut out some of the fretwork to free the rose bushes
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So time for a replacement. The problem was it had to support two roses bushes either side which limited to walkway width. After lot of searching and rejecting design or material (we wanted wood) we found and order one.

Came as a flat pack (not my photo)

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Ok we now had it in the garage so to start work on it
First of all I decided that the legs were too long so cut off 6" and use them as stumps for the arch to rest on with a damp proof membrain between to stop damp rising .

stumps now in ground on the earth side

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hit a problem on the grass side, There was a metapost set in concrete exactly where I wanted to stumps

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now to check levels
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To support the new arch I had purchased some angle iron which I screwed into the arch legs and positioned the arch then put the roses back onto the new arch

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Old and new arches
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