Meant to get to the library for blogging earlier. But it was a good morning for burning. Just enough rain last night to keep the ground damp but not enough to soak the wood. And hooboy, have I got wood.
Last week a minion came and spent a whole day breaking down and stacking all that deconstruction rubble and since then, I’ve been getting rid of it the good, old-fashioned, no-dump-fee way.
Today was my fifth construction-rubble fire. These aren’t exactly bonfires, but couldn’t pass as humble little campfires, either.
BUT. In addition to getting rid of the unsightly rubble heaps, I’m making other progress. You recall the two unsightly exterior walls I bemoaned not long ago. Here’s one of them then:
Now take a look at today:
The door trim and shingles are my work. I got carried away. I’d figured to make that wall my main summer project, working on it an hour here, an hour there. But I love shingling. Took just five days even though I was sick for the first several of it. Still need to put up a fascia board and some edge trim and to paint the eaves (which of course I should have done before shingling, but I plead brainfog from that endless cold I had. I forgot.
The new wall with the T1-11 siding is courtesy of The Wandering Monk. And if it looks like just any old wall, take my word for it, it was more of an engineering project than you can imagine. Perhaps I’ll give you the full true-confession story on that wall next time I’m ready to make fun of yet another weird quirk of Ye Old Wreck. But for now … progress!
Now off to repay your patience with a couple of blog entries …
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UPDATE Okay. I have posted a few more things today and in addition prepped three more blogs for posting between now and the end of the week. So you’ll hardly know I’m mostly offline. I also read and will be thinking about your blog-related suggestions. Big thank you for those.
However, I didn’t get most of my email answered. Will try to catch up on that within a few days, but for now I’m tired, my eyeballs need a break from this screen, and the dogs are calling me home. I can hear them sighing and whimpering all the way from the library.
Hurts my heart to see all that stovewood going up in smoke outdoors…
Nice progress on the wall, though.
I’m just curious why you didn’t either shingle the whole thing, or use the vertical boards (whatever they are) on it all. I like the looks of the shingles best, myself. But yes, I’m even more curious about the “engineering project. 🙂
And you fed the pooch, too. That’s nice. 🙂
Looks good.
ML — Why I shingled part of the wall and used paneling on another is a good question — but a long story.
I, too, love the look of shingles. But the house was mostly already sided with the 4-inch-groove T1-11 and much of it was in good enough shape to keep. Redoing the whole house with shingles would have been beautiful, but would also have been money not well spent. So I’ve shingled only around the front and back doors.
Although in that photo it looks like one long wall that, logically, should be given one treatment, the paneled portion actually sticks out 4-inches beyond the shingled portion. (Don’t ask.) Eventually, a deck will run under the shingled portion and will have a lattice privacy wall at the end of it. So the two walls will be divided visually from each other.
Does that makes sense? If not, sorry. Tired. Going home now.
“Hurts my heart to see all that stovewood going up in smoke outdoors…”
🙂 You’re welcome to come haul away what’s left of it, Joel.
And IF I lived closer I’d be driving those loads of “stovewood” for the gas and a sandwich.
Ok ok gas, a sandwich and a place to sleep before the next load.
What? I have a pickup. The commute is a mother (meant in the not-nice-way) but what are friends for?
Besides cluttering up the living room couch for hours?