Steven’s father planted 4 o’clocks. They are a pleasant memory for him. Here are the ones at Rose Cottage.
Weekend between Day 5 and 6
Exterior
Day 5 Heavy rain last night
Heavy rain last night. Steven went over to the house about 10 last night. He did some mopping and arranging of buckets to catch the rain.
We discovered the next morning that there was some overflow. But all in all not bad.
Day 4 Walls going up
Many of the walls went up today. It was getting dark and rain was closing in as they rushed to get some trusses up on top of the walls to help support the tarps.
Check out the great view out the east bathroom window.
Day 3 Roof Removed and Siding Painted
The roof is totally removed except for far South gable which will be used to support the tarps overnight.
I painted the edges of the siding, then we spread them all out so I could spray paint them. Our sprayer was working poorly so we purchased a new one and it was so much better. So far rain has not been a problem.
More rot from dripping rain water
A support post literally fell away. More rot in the rim joists.
Martha Stewart finds stained glass-we find rot
While putting in the living room window, we did some work on the porch supports. We found dripping water from the overhead gable had eaten away a 2×10 header! Literally gone from dripping rain water! Steven quickly got a jack to support the roof. We will need to replace the header and add new support posts soon.
Unhappy Finding
Steven removed the siding from the porch ‘railing’. I removed the wood lattice from below the porch. We then discovered that there was a lot of rot in the headers and ceiling.
Two Projects in One Week
The city has been urging us to remove the old shed. We wanted to remove it also but was using it to store windows. We cleaned out the kitchen porch, removed a dividing wall and moved the windows there. We tried for several days to find someone to take it. There were many interested by most had no way to remove it so we decided to just demolish it.
What an improvement!
Clearing the Porch
We had been using the front open porch as a storage area.
It was time to clean it up. First task was organizing the maple flooring for an upstairs bedroom.
Steven had rescued it from a gymnasium many years before.
We also organized the free railing materials we had gotten from a ReUse store.
Airlock Begone
At sometime an exterior door had been added to the living room and an airlock built in front of it on the porch. We wanted to remove the airlock and change the door into a large window which we had picked up from a house being remodeled.
The window was two double hung sections, bronze metal on the outside and wood on the inside.
We carefully removed the siding from the airlock so we could use it later (below the siding is maple flooring.)
Front wall of the airlock removed and the side wall is in process of being removed.
We will use this door in the kitchen porch as the exterior door.
The airlock, door and tile on the floor are gone.
We still need to remove the siding to the right.
