Today marks year 2 being married, and how did we celebrate?  Well we worked on the house just like last year!  This year however we’re on the other side of the house.

We took a good load of aluminum siding over to the recycle place finally, we didn’t get a ton for it but we had 200lbs that we got rid of from our basement at least.  We still have more (plus what’s actually on the house still).

Then we went over to the lumber yard and bought some wood for doing the siding/window panels as well as some new decking that will match the old. Although we’re playing with the idea of replacing the whole deck eventually.

Finally back home to start working on the porch.   With all the rain the side of the house is too wet to start working on siding, we’ll probably put that off until thursday when it’s supposed to get sunny and hopefully all dried out.

This porch project is a bit more than we had planned for.  We knew we needed to jack up the porch a bit and replace the supports which are sagging on the outside of the porch. This is what we uncovered:

Side of the deck exposed now

The first corner we plan to work on

What we're worried about

The corner post is hollow and resting on the deck boards.  So now we need to support the porch roof while we get the deck boards out of there and put in new wood.  It’s never easy!  Some of these supports are not looking great either so we may reinforce them a bit as we go along.  We bought new cement blocks (that’s what’s supporting the porch) so we can put in a few more supports where it’s sagging.

Going to be a LONG hard project – ugg!  But it’s raining again so we’re going to call it a day and get a nice dinner for our anniversary and play some Starcraft with PJ hopefully later!