When we raise the roof and replace it, the load bearing walls will change so we needed to add a header over the windows in the first floor bedroom. We also removed the weights and will replace them with a metal device. We will then be able to add insulation in the cavity where the weights were originally. Steven used 2 x 12 boards simply because we had them.
I spent the day peeling off paint that had been put on top of the varnish.
We want to save the window to the north on the second floor. It is old wavy glass and paneled glass.
There was a crack in the glass in one of the panels when we purchased the house. There is also a crack in one of the lower panels from someone throwing a rock or shooting a pellet. We have a window we are removing from the bedroom on the first floor that also has wavy glass that we can use to do repairs. The wood sill has some water damage so we will use wood hardener,
Steven had bagged many bags of insulation from the second floor. We needed to remove it to make room for work on the second floor raising. They were heavy and Steven didn’t want to carry them from the back door to the dumpster, so we took a long folding table and situated it on the top step and the top of the dumpster. Steven kept pushing the bags along it until they started to fall in. His chuckle at the end is full of pleasure!
A support post literally fell away. More rot in the rim joists.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
