Waking up late again left us with only 2 hours to work before the football game started so we decided to do decking today since I could continue that by myself after the game started and after the game we could continue together. So we got a decent amount of the deck down today and …
Here’s the deck as of this morning. We won’t be working on the house over labor day weekend but hopefully the other weekends in September we can get the siding up (window panels and siding) and the deck a little more completed. The deck doesn’t have to be finished before winter because next year we’ll …
It was a little hotter outside today and it was the last day of our vacation so we took it a little easy. After a quick trip to home depot and some breakfast/lunch at Denny’s we decided to start on the copper. First we cut the large piece we bought in half so it could …
Well this weekend is the end of our vacation – which is sad because it really went too quickly as usual. We had a great day though, we started out with some errands (last trip to the dump for a while hopefully) and then to the lumber yard to buy more decking now that we …
We got a good start on the deck today. First we had to jack up the roof of the porch so we could get the decking out from under the corner post and put in our new block. Because the corner block hangs off so far and we plan to put a staircase off the …
Today was a short day because Ryan had a dentist appt in the evening and I had a stitch with friends. But we decided to tackle the ant damage on the porch today. First we put in some extra supports. Then we cut away the rotted wood (most of it). We also sprayed for ants …
Well we had a short reprieve from rain today so Ryan and I got started on our porch project, replacing the supports under the porch so we can raise it up a little (it was really tilted on one side). It did rain a bit but it was a light rain. By lunch we had …
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 …
Well looks like the start of our vacation is going to be a bit rainy – not great for working on the siding for the house! I did get the front door (sidelight and frame) sanded and stained yesterday. I’ll do a coat of urethane a day and it should be done quite soon and …
I finished getting the teak oil on the new porch furniture last night, then I got the rest of the second coat of urethane on the front door. One more coat to go on each side! We got a table with 4 chairs and a bench for the porch. Since we don’t currently have a …