Renovation Chronicles.....almost there.......
The cedar (vinyl) shakes on the dormer turned out so nice,
the picture doesn't do it justice, so you'll have to come see it
for yourself. We're glad we did this. And I never thought I'd
gush over new gutters, but these are totally wonderful!
The hole in the wall. Double windows were removed to make
way for the patio door in our dining room. Sounds weird, but
there is method to our madness....down the road....eventually.
The mess that the hole in the wall made. Luckily, these guys
are also electricians. They spent most of the installation of
the door having to re route a few key wires from under the
window to over the door.
The hole in the wall gang. Once they got the wall cut down
to floor level, they checked out why our dining room floor
is so spongy in that area. Turns out the joist holding up the
wall here was totally eaten away by termites at some point
between 1927 and now. The damage was very old. The joist
looked like a piece of driftwood. They had to shore up the floor
before they could set the door into place.
The new door lets in a lot of light which is great since the
back porch is covered and tends to make the house dark.
Neil is standing there, staring at the wall he's going to have
to repair. They had to cut away a lot of wall where the door
had to be set. So there went our vintage wallpaper. Well,
it was new when we put it up. It's vintage now. We'll never
be able to replace it. They patched in sheet rock. Just
something else we'll have to figure out how to deal with.
It's going to take some getting use to having a door here now.
There's still a lot of work to be finished on this side
of the house. The door has to be painted (ugh!) and
the siding guys will return on Monday to complete the
siding and trim around the door. Still have to paint the
porch ceiling and posts. We're so happy with
the way the house is shaping up. It's long overdue.
And we'll be thrilled when it's all done!
