My husband finished a window well cover earlier this week, and is nearly finished with the second one. I’m pretty darn impressed, especially given that this is his first real welding project (he considered the umbrella stand practice, since it just involved attaching a piece of pipe to a piece of I-beam). Here’s a picture of the finished window well cover:
He spent $58 on the grating (enough to make covers for both windows), and about $10 on the angle iron. He ran out of angle iron on the second cover, so he’s been using scrap metal that we found in a dumpster behind a welding shop here in town. He talked with the owners a few weeks ago, and they said that he’s welcome to dig through their scrap metal dumpster any time he wants. So for the last couple weeks, he’s taken me over there on Friday nights, for a “dumpster date.” He gets in and pulls out the good metal, and hands it out to me so that I can load it up in our wagon. And he gets a kick out of telling all the neighbors what a romantic guy he is, taking his wife dumpster diving on Friday nights 
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