Strike up the band.

It was a disjointed, but still productive day. The interior door were delivered first thing this morning. They look good. Next we put our pressure treated 2×12 band around the house where the deck is going to go. I’m getting really excited about the deck. It will be fun to build and should be a great addition to the living space. It started raining just as we were finishing that up, so I went over to Chapel Hill to buy some cedar lumber. I bought about 750 square feet of v-groove 1×6 in 3-5 foot lengths. It looks pretty good and will be the ceiling for the porch. At least about a third of it will be anyways. I’m not sure what I’ll do with the remainder. It would be great if I could lift the whole bundle up onto the porch with my tractor. I also pressure washed the green corrugated roofing metal that we will put on the vaulted ceiling in the apartment. Lastly, I knocked out the accent wall in the apartment bedroom. We used the siding from the old house for that. I think it looks pretty good. My dad continued his heroic efforts on the drywall mud. It is supposed to storm all day tomorrow. I hope to get the last accent wall done and complete the aforementioned sheet metal ceiling. I was just at Lowe’s browsing around. They started their Black Friday appliance sale, and have some good deals. Now I’m about to order a few things of the Home Depot and Amazon websites. But first, dinner.

Slip-siding away.

Well we finished up the last of the siding and all but one piece of soffit. That took most of the day. After that my did work on some sheetrock mudding and I organized around the site and worked to get prepared for tomorrow. Now they are saying that it isn’t going to rain. After dinner I went to Home Depot and bought some lumber for the deck band and all of our exterior door knobs along with some for the apartment’s interior. I bought more expensive ones than I was planning on, but they are really nice. It was another lovely fall day. The leaves are starting to change and it is so relaxing. I need to take some pictures.

Riding the siding.

It was a rather miserable, but still fairly productive day. We were back on the ladders trying to finish up the siding. But before that I went to check up on my door order and get (the other) front tractor tire repaired. It was a beautiful and sunny fall day despite starting off on the cool side. We did make good progress on the siding despite it being rather tedious due to the height. We are on the last two gable ends. I am hoping that we will finish the siding and most of the trim tomorrow. It is supposed to start raining on Wednesday afternoon. If by the time the rain starts we have the siding done, the 1×4 trim complete, and the deck band installed and caulked, I will be quite happy. Bonus points if we get the exterior door knobs installed as well, but that would require Liz to make a decision about which ones she wants. It is supposed to be even warmer tomorrow, around 75 degrees. I’m not looking forward to ladder time, but it sure will be nice when we are finished.