Finally the rebuilding has begun. This past weekend (Saturday at least), Ryan made a couple trips to the dump to get rid of all the demo debri from the ceiling demo. We got the upstairs cleaned up more, things moved around, the saw brought up and vacuuming vacuuming vacuuming. There is still more cleanup to …
Well Wednesday and Thursday were completely rained out – no progress made but the weather today has been great and with all three guys here, they can probably finish the tower by end of Monday at this rate. First they got the attic window panels painted, final coat, and then the molding above the windows …
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Monday and Tuesday this week have just been our main contractor and one helper since the other one was on vacation. They have a routine down, one up on the tower installing the panel outlines while the other is cutting the MDO into the right size panels and pre-priming them so they can just be …
We were away on friday but our contractor and one helper came over for the day. They got the molding up on the tower soffit and finished up the painting so above the attic windows is now completely done. The staging was lowered down to the attic windows so today they can trim those out …
It looks like Tuesday they got rained out as well, they finished up the outline of the panels but that was about 3 pieces of wood so not much. Wednesday our contractor came by himself and finished up the upper panels, then primed and painted them. He said Friday he will be there with one …
The crew showed up Monday morning, a little on the later side thinking it would be raining, it held off, until it didn’t! just after lunch the sky opened up and dropped buckets of rain down. The guys scrambled to pick up and get under shelter. It rained for hours after that but they made …
This weekend was a nice relaxing weekend with some grimy demolition work. While Alex napped on Saturday (2 naps) Ryan got the ceiling of the master bathroom, small bathroom and laundry-room upstairs all demolished. During nap one I got the master bathroom ceiling demo all cleaned up (while Ryan did some dump runs). Then during …
Surprisingly they only missed a half day last week due to rain, although they couldn’t paint with the constant threat of rain. Great progress was made when I came home Friday morning and I’ll just explain through the pictures since I wasn’t here to witness it anyhow 🙂 I don’t think I have a picture …
Well now that I’m away I don’t get so many pictures but Ryan snapped one this morning before heading into work. They started work on the tower in earnest, getting the panels around the windows almost done which involved some flashing with the porch roof and window caps. Monday they got the moldings up around …
Another weekend home and we got to do some work on the house! During Alex’s morning nap I went out and sanded and primed the old shakes. Afternoon nap was spent working on finishing up the crown molding in the kitchen and taking a nap myself so no more painting (plus the oil based primer …