Mending fences

Been busy for the last couple of weeks with a few chores that really did not amount to much worthy of a posting on their own but desperately needed doing before winter. Three hundred feet of fencing is a lot to keep up with. A lot of the fence post on the property were broken or just about to break right at ground level. The were cedar posts and the fellow that put them in about 10 yrs ago did not tar the bases so they are all breaking at ground level. This time I used pressure treated lumber and tarred them. Should hold for a bit. Much of it also needed straightening as the ground frost gets hold of the posts and shifts them about over the years. So I re-set and plumbed a few of the posts that were not broken as well.

After I replaced the broken posts I leveled most of the fence sections as well so that they are in a nice even and straight line. Much more pleasing to the eye.

Front fence section needed replacing as well.

Mr peeping Tom needed a rebuild, new paint and a new hat after ten years in the weather.

Dog-house entrance to the basement needed to be finished. So I got the trim done with Tough-Board the same synthetic material I used for the trim on the rest of the hose three years ago when I rebuilt it.

And a coat of paint previous to applying the cedar shake siding.

Tool shed also got new trim and paint as the old stuff was rotted.

The garage door plastic window frame was brittle and broken in pieces after ten years in the weather, so I removed the broken bits and rebuilt the frame by filling the backside of the plastic frame with thickened epoxy embedded with steel wire. New brick molding trim left over from an other project went on as well. Tan paint to match the rest of the theme is next.