{"id":32082,"date":"2017-07-31T19:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T02:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=32082"},"modified":"2017-07-31T19:21:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T02:21:25","slug":"the-more-satisfying-part-of-construction-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/31\/the-more-satisfying-part-of-construction-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The more satisfying part of construction begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ScreenPorchFramingBegins-SMALL_073117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ScreenPorchFramingBegins-SMALL_073117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ScreenPorchFramingBegins-SMALL_073117.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/ScreenPorchFramingBegins-SMALL_073117-338x450.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t look like much, but it&#8217;s pretty exciting to me. Today The Wandering Monk returned to resume construction. First order of business: begin framing the new screen porch.<\/p>\n<p>Here you see the framing near the beginning, with the Monk holding the screen door in place. My original plan was to use a door I salvaged from the landfill. Then the lumberyard put this very nice vinyl door on sale (roughly half of Home Depot&#8217;s price for it!), so I repurposed the salvaged door and grabbed this.<\/p>\n<p>This entire phase of the Great Foundation and Screen Porch project should be more gratifying and a heck of a lot more fun than the foundation repairs we did earlier. It&#8217;s all framing and siding and other relatively simple things to bring Ye Olde Wreck closer to becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/27\/name-that-cottage-the-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mo Saoirse<\/a>. Unfortunately, we might be working in temperatures approaching 100 later this week. Fortunately most of the work is on the north side and under trees.<\/p>\n<p>The north side has long been the ugliest and most problematic. By the time we&#8217;re done with this phase, both the north and west walls should be repaired, sided, and beginning to look like real walls on a real house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doesn&#8217;t look like much, but it&#8217;s pretty exciting to me. Today The Wandering Monk returned to resume construction. First order of business: begin framing the new screen porch. Here you see the framing near the beginning, with the Monk holding the screen door in place. My original plan was to use a door I salvaged from the landfill. Then the lumberyard put this very nice vinyl door on sale (roughly half of Home Depot&#8217;s price for it!), so I repurposed the salvaged door and grabbed this. This entire phase of the Great Foundation and Screen Porch project should be more&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/31\/the-more-satisfying-part-of-construction-begins\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The more satisfying part of construction begins<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32087,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32082\/revisions\/32087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}