Ryan was out stripping paint until 9:30 last night, he’s crazy but determined and got the whole soffit completely stripped!  That alone made renting the lift worth it!

Soffit ready to go this morning

A closer look

I didn’t get pictures at the end of the day but the day went like this…

Ryan and I up in the lift together got all the prep for the whole soffit done (filling holes, sanding, caulking).  Then we primed the whole soffit and the last window.  Once that was done we moved on to the shakes, we scraped them down a bit and sanded them.  Then primed the shakes yellow (they will be red but I don’t have red primer).

While the shakes were being primed I got the attic windows installed again – they look great in place!

Once the shakes were all primed we grabbed the paint and got the paint on the whole soffit and window as well.  We finished JUST in time to return the lift by 4pm.  While Ryan returned the lift and came home, showered and picked up Alex, I got the rest of the yellow trim all painted (above the porch and below the porch).  So all that’s left is the green on the siding and red on the shakes.  We will probably hold off on the red until we can rent a lift again, we’ll just do the shakes and all the red moldings with a lift I think.

And bonus… our neighbor came over and worked all day priming the railings so that got done too!

So much painting – a great end to a great vacation week.  The weather was beautiful (which was unexpected) and since we didn’t get a rainy day we didn’t tile yet.  We’ll see how the weekend goes, we’re looking forward to relaxing for the end of our vacation, maybe hitting up a pumpkin festival and doing some shopping.  Can’t wait.

Pictures to come later – I was cleaning up paint chips until after dark so I forgot to take pictures!