It's another Saturday so what does that mean? Painting more siding of course! It seems once we finish painting one stack of siding we have to go get another. It's not hard work, just very monotonous and takes the entire day. Good news is we finished it all today so tomorrow can be spent on others things, house stuff of course.
Our backyard looks like a bomb went off. Luckily the neighbors say it looks better than before we moved in.
Our contractor Vic inspecting the wall that's supposed to hold up the back of the house...before it was eaten by termites. We're going to pour a new footer on each end of the wall and have two new posts and a beam running across the top.
Here's a shot of the new footer...way bigger than we need but hey, better safe than sorry.
So you want to buy an old house??? Well before you do make sure you're prepared for things like this. Both pieces were taken out of the east side of the house near the same spot...the one on the left is completely eaten by termites and the one on the right was on fire at some point. Oh and there was also some water damage in the same area. This is the second time we've uncovered previous fire damage but this time in a different location...so it was either a very big fire or two separate ones.
Mary I know you were looking for pictures of the newly sanded floor so here you go...
Finally after months of doing all the unglamorous and dirty jobs we finally got to paint the front of the house. We chose a nice blue/green color that was from the list of choices for the historic area. In the next couple of weeks we'll start to close in the rear of the house and put a floor in the downstairs kitchen (finally!) BTW it took an entire day to even start the painting...first we had to scrape everything, wearing respirators because of old lead paint and then had to caulk the joint at each and every board. The neighbors really seem to like the color and the fact that we're fixing what used to be a bit of an eyesore on the street.
If you look real close you can see the old layers of paint underneath the new color. There were about 5 colors underneath including grey, green and tan.
Sarah's mom Liz had the fun job of trying to paint the railings on the front porch...it's harder than it looks to paint all the nooks and crannies.
A shot from across the street. We think it looks really good next to the yellow house.
