A Paying Project Long In The Works

 Fall of 2020 a repeat customer called to put in a couple windows and an atrium door.

High up on a ladder on the second floor too . . . . oh my aching knees . . . and the inspector had to inspect

Thankfully only one window was on the second story

That's the south face of the house I was working on . New upstairs window is in yet to be trimmed .

And that's what it looked like on the inside when I started . New atrium door to go where that window is .

Strip the drywall and insulation , build a temporary support for the upstairs .

Cut a big hole in the wall , install a six foot header, and remove the temporary support .

inspector pays a visit

He's cool with the progress so far

 Install the new door

Yank and replace a window just to the right of the new door .

 Yank the old door

. . . . and find this mess in the sill

Repair and replace the sill , frame in the old door for a new small transom window and sheathe over .

More sill rot just to the right of the door . . .

Excise and rebuild 

 and sheathe

Replace two more windows and trim out

Go back up the ladder and trim out the first window I installed

Glad the ladder part is over with .

Start patching in the cedar shakes on the wall where the door was and we had all the sill rot .

Got most of it done and left the space for the small transom window yet to arrive as it is a special order

 By this point I am feeling a bit worn out and this is where the original scope of the project was supposed to be done . . . . but as things often are its an evolving process . . . so . . .

. . .  we move on to the interior work . Those nasty ass barn boards are coming off .

Pepsi can time capsule found behind boards . The pull tab and graphics style dates it to 1973

I frame in a new six foot opening to the small side room with blocking provisions for the installation of an overhead rail for two three foot wide sliding barn doors .

 Opposite wall with the entry from the garage  . . .

Barn boards also removed to be replaced by drywall .

 Inspector seems to be impressed by my geriatric fumbling .

 Special order transom window finally arrives so I install it .

And trim it out

 Back wall in the small side room to be moved back a couple feet only as far as the water supply line allows .

 Wall gone

New wall built

 

Plumber is called in to re route pipes once hidden by dropp ceiling to now fit flush and within the new wall . He turns out to he a total mook and cuts my new wall to shreds . He is promptly told to leave and never come back and loses contract to install new heat pumps .

I repair the wall , frame in old bedroom door and frame out a chase to hide the upstairs sewer pipes .

Once the electrician does his thing the rock wool insulation goes in .

Windows get framing extended by two inches for two inch thick foam insulation to be added .

Doors get the same treatment .

Strapping goes up on the ceiling in preparation for drywall

Two inch thick foam goes over the studs , note electrical boxes also firred out two inches .

 

 

And strapping goes over that .

Note that by now we are into early December 2020 and we have snow on the ground.

After a one year hiatus waiting for others to do plumbing , heat pumps , drywall and flooring in early October 2021 I finally got to go back and start on the interior trim work . . .  next post will be the show and tell on that .

Local Wildlife

 The local wildlife has been making an appearance recently

After about a ten year hiatus some critters are moving back into the neighborhood

 They have been making the rounds in everybody's yard including ours . 

Sighted these two sketchy looking ones followed by a haggard looking female of the species puffing on a smoke down at Eight Corners about a mile from the house .

This variety hauls around all their household accoutrements wherever it goes .

 

This one appears to have a racoon tail of some kind

 

Ten minutes later when I came back from gassing up the car they appeared to be getting ready to nest down in the local woods right across from Joe's Cafe .

Warming up some Whistleberries

 Also seen at a the Bonnie Eagle car show

 Fixin some lunch , all time classics molasses bread in a can and baked beans .

Note the vacuum driven horn on the intake manifold

Seen recently at the Bonnie Eagle car show

A home built rig based on an LS Corvette engine and transmission .

And a couple spaces down from it a home-built reverse trike based on a Yamaha V-Max

 

No Electrons needed

Got us a new wor-shing machine

 A Gas-O-Line powered Maytag

 

Clothes wind up smelling like two stroke oil but no one seems to mind .

 

There that ought to piss Gretta off just a little bit  . . .

 

Since Blogger and YT are not playing nice , here's the video link of those viewing on a I-phone  .

 

https://youtu.be/7_zS-T5pyrQ 

 

Now you weenies don't go getting your panties in a bunch telling me about how the government ought to regulate household appliances .

Pontiac

 This week's contest on BAT is for subscriber's choice of hood ornament

Chief Pontiac on the 1950 model has to be one of the better looking ones out there .

 Likely considered un-PC by the woke lib-tards today .

Took the photo at a car show about twenty years ago .

Meanwhile at the supermarket parking lot

 A Morris Minor two door saloon

 

Single piece windshield and horizontal grill slats makes it a post 1960 model with the 49 hp, 948 cc engine and a pucker factor inducing top speed of 75mph .

 

And the keys are right in it . The owner must figure any dingbat dumb enough to try to steal it could not sort out how to drive it anyhow .