We had a bit of a late night last night visiting with family so we had to make up for some sleep this morning 🙂  Once we got going however we started right in on the second copper triangle.  Moving the metal bender outside made it go MUCH faster (instead of carrying the copper inside for every bend).

Copper finished on the bottom!

After copper we did some caulking and started on the bottom piece of the window panels which were by far the hardest pieces to get in because of the copper.  We went with screws so we could pull them in straight a bit.  After the first one was cut however we realized we needed a third piece of wood for the front one so we made a quick trip over to the lumber yard.

First piece of window panels in!

After our lunch break/lumber yard trip it was back to the window panels.  I don’t remember how long it took us but we finally got the bottom row all in.

Even though we were fighting daylight by the end we continued on until just about dark, getting as much in as we could.  The angles are troublesome, not because they are angles (22.5 degree cuts) but because the tar paper is uneven and bunches up making it hard to get the pieces to fit together nicely and hard to find the corner at all.  We’re using expanding glue in most seams so hopefully once it’s painted it will be hard to see the seams at all.

The first box framed out

The second box framed

The stopping point for the night

Of course that was just the stopping point for outdoor work since it was dark by the time we picked up the tools.  We then put together our new UHF antenna and temporarily installed it on the porch (which gets a decent amount of channels)!  I also hooked up our patch panel to 3 of our coax outlets and we have our internet running off of one of our “new” outlets as well as a direct line from the cable to the tv which pulls in a few channels.

So we went from no tv at all to some HD channels over the antenna – just in time for Sunday football and the antenna cost was cheaper than 2 months of cable!