No More Siding, Please

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...