Fred wrote:
One of the folks replied to this and I accidentally deleted his
message in mid stream. He was talking about changing the grooves and
putting something at angle..... didn't quite get it because I was
looking up every other word in the dictionary....

Anyway, would you mind sketching out your idea and posting somewhere,
like at...

I don't draw well but here's what I wrote...

"The bottom piece will trap water. Not good even if you use pressure
treated. You could mitigate that by making a rabbet rather than a
dado in the bottom piece, sloping the bottom of the rabbet a bit,
using solid lattice and nailing the bottom of the lattice into the
edge of the rabbet."

Basically, instead of this...
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this...
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with the bottom of the rabbet sloped out board so it will drain. The
idea of using a grooved piece of plastic for the bottom is good too but
I'd drill weep holes into it.

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dadiOH
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