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    Building a Door Blind

    This year was the first year I was able to get on a lease and to say it has been amazing would be an understatement. I also understated the amount of work it takes to get feeders, blinds, food plots, and $$ to start from scratch. My good friend is also on the lease. I started by building him a very nice elevated blind which we went all out on with deer view windows, etc. When it came time to build my stand, I was looking for a cheaper option for this year. My main location is a recent clear cut with a creek bottom running a curve. I've always wanted an octagon shaped stand as it always seems I want to look right where the corners of the blind are. This location lends itself very nice to an octagon shaped stand.

    A while ago, I purchased a bunch of doors because I was going to build a storage cabinet in my garage with bipass doors. I think I got a lot of 10 off them off craigslist for $20. That never happened and they have been sitting in my garage ever since. I figured the doors would make a good deer blind. They are hollow core so should have some level of insulation.

    Here is the progress of making the "Door Blind"

    I started by cutting cardboard strips of each of the sizes of doors I had for the best way to lay them out.

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    This is how I originally laid it out. It ends up bring 6 ft wide and roughly 5 ft deep.


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      The doors already had hinges so I used it to my advantage to quickly connect them. All I had to do then is put the pin in. Instead of all the math, I created them with the hinges and then traced out the floor to cut. I used solid core doors for the floor which was a part of the group of doors.


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        For the windows I cut them out with a jig saw. I ripped a 2-by down to the correct width and inserted it with glue. I screwed it in all the way around. This would have been sufficient but I didn’t care for how it looked. I had leftover trim from my last house so I framed out the inside and then added trim to the outside and inside. I used a lot of caulk to make sure water couldn’t get in anywhere.
        The photos are in the reverse order.


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          Thats a really cool idea/build. What will you close the gaps with?

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            looks good. Are you going to skin the outside? Figure those hollow core doors will be a mess if any moisture penetrates them.

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              Originally posted by rolylane6 View Post
              Thats a really cool idea/build. What will you close the gaps with?

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              I’ll rip 2x at an angle to fit in there. I was planning to put weatherstrip on the edges but ended up caulking them.


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                Originally posted by RR 314 View Post
                looks good. Are you going to skin the outside? Figure those hollow core doors will be a mess if any moisture penetrates them.

                Yep- that’s right. The end grain is the most susceptible. My options were to cover it all with the red guard stuff which water seals or I painted it extremely well with exterior paint to keep the moisture out. That’s really why I framed the windows better to keep moisture out of the cut edges and used lots of painters caulk. It’s for sure not the best but for $20 worth of doors, I think it’ll last a few years if I paint any bad areas.


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                  Following - want to see how this turns out, great idea

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                    Originally posted by jb5001 View Post
                    Yep- that’s right. The end grain is the most susceptible. My options were to cover it all with the red guard stuff which water seals or I painted it extremely well with exterior paint to keep the moisture out. That’s really why I framed the windows better to keep moisture out of the cut edges and used lots of painters caulk. It’s for sure not the best but for $20 worth of doors, I think it’ll last a few years if I paint any bad areas.


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                    I used 2 hollow core doors for the exterior doors on shed I built at our last house. A really good coat of exterior enamel paint about every 3 years or so and they held up well for the 12 years we lived there.

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                      Any progress updates?

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                        Really interesting concept..Only prob I see is lf there indoor doors they don't hold up to WET...The indoor doors I have used in outdoor applications delaminated and fell apart in a few months...But if you can seal them should be cool... Outdoor doors hold up ok but they Heavy..Hope ya get it to work out

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                          That is a very cool idea! And yes, looking forward to the finished product.

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                              To have a bit of a slope to the roof, I had to cut the tops at an angle. After a bunch of trying to think of the angle, I decided it was just easier to rip and attach a 2x to the top of the door. It actually worked out very well.

                              To seal the gaps, I ripped a 2x to fit in there. Figuring that angle was a pain. In the end I was off some but extra caulk sealed it up well. In one of the photos they are actually laying on the floor.


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