11.4.2016

Jim moved all the painted soffit pieces up into the woodworking shop this morning. He'll keep them upright and apart for a bit longer to let them continue to dry. 

Jim also worked this morning on doing the final cutting of the sill for the side door.  We had to custom order this sill - it's a really nice one that should work perfectly for this door application.  But Jim had to size it to fit. 

Looks so good!  Jim has to fasten it permanently but is going to let the area underneath dry out really well from our rain yesterday. 

Then he went to work rebuilding scaffolding towers so that we can work on the rest of the front and the dreaded west wall again!

He needed to build higher so this far front tower is finally starting to come down!

Building up on the side...

Once Jim was able to get up on the scaffolding, he was able to make a jig for the corner trim and then take precise measurements to make the trim.  Here it's all made, drip edge put in and painted, and ready to be assembled.

Corner trim assembled...

Putting it in place...

Fastening it down...

Moving up planks so that he can reach higher...

Jim made the first piece of drip edge and is getting ready to install it...

Next step is to get read to put shingles on!  First the spacer...

Then Jim has to cut the starter plank to size...

Attaching the plank...

I spent most of the day working on unwrapping and separating the last pallet of shingles - just one more row to finish.  We are going to store them to see if we will need anymore.  When I was painting the shingles, I kept a tally of the number of shingles I painted each day - the grand total was 5670 painted shingles!

End-of-the-day picture...first row of shingles started!  We still can't get over how different the front looks now that scaffolding isn't hiding it any more - we're thrilled with how it's turning out!

 

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