Curb Appeal

More good progress on the house this week. Slowly but surely it is coming together. Bob finished up the exterior fascia work. As part of that, we opted to rebuild the small roof over the front steps that seemed more like an afterthought than an original part of the structure. We changed the roof style slightly so now it looks like it’s always been part of the house. Since we tied in the roof with the porch roof, we were able to do away with 2 of the posts. This helps clean up and unclutter the front entry area. For good measure, I’ve included a before picture of when we were rebuilding the screened in front porch.

The front gables got new siding

Bob also got the three small gables above the front porch re-sided. He had done one previously, but this week he removed and replaced the siding from the remaining two. As part of this work, he replaced the flashing where the siding meets the metal roof. Now there shouldn’t be any more small leaks between the porch roof and the siding (like there was previously). Finishing the fascia, rebuilding the porch roof, and replacing the siding on the gables is starting to make this look like a nice house!

The chickens get an upgrade

I was able to make some progress on a handful of items this week. I had been holding onto offcuts of siding from when we resided the shop. It was quite a stack of T-111 plywood. I’ve been waiting for a free moment to turn that stack into nesting boxes and a feeder box for our chickens and ducks. This week I finally had time. I ended up building a double decker nesting box with one large space below for the ducks and two boxes side by side above. We installed these through the wire fencing in the coop so you don’t have to go inside the coop to collect the eggs. I also built a feeder using the same plywood. The feeder should be able to hold 200 pounds of feed. The feeder is also accessible without going inside of the coop.

Carport Ceiling

The other week I broke down the plywood platform under the carport that I had used for building the large teak deck. I wanted to move my teak panel making jigs back under the carport, but first I wanted to finish staining the underside of the carport roof. This is the only remaining spot yet to be finished. When we stained the shop originally, I was already working in the carport area so I opted to hold off until things calmed down. That only took 5 months! Oceana and I cleared out the last few items under there and got prepped to spray on the white stain. I got the sprayer set up and sprayed on two coats of the wood stain. It looks nice all finished! After the stain set up, Oceana got right on priming and painting the telephone poles. Unfortunately, she finished right as we got hit with a torrential downpour. She has a few touch ups to do because of that but otherwise it looks awesome.

That’s all for this week. Hope y’all have a good week!