11.2.2016

This picture hardly does Jim's old shoes justice - they have so many holes in them and have pulled away from the sole that when we had our snow last week, he spent the day with wet feet.  He would still be wearing them probably, but I came home and ordered new ones.  Same shoe but just a bit different!  I think he got his money's worth out of those!

We are still celebrating the fact that the peak is done - it was kind of a shock driving up and seeing the front of the carriage house look so finished!

Jim worked a little bit on the driveway this morning - smoothing out some of the gravel that was dumped.  It looks really nice.

Then it was back to some detail work - Jim had to start working on the other side of the overhang.  This one is even more complicated than the other side because it connects to the valley and the house.  He got the last piece of copper head wall flashing on the top of the overhang made and installed.

Then he made the piece that goes on the side of the overhang, plus he had to cut the last shingle for this area.

Installing the flashing...

 

Putting on the rest of the hip shingles...

 

Then it was the complicated design of making flashing that will fit over the hip area.  Jim made a trial piece out of aluminum flashing.



Jim's design worked so then it was time to transfer the pattern to copper.

Once Jim made the piece and tested that it fit, he soldered it to make sure there won't be any leaks.

All done and cooling off.

Installing the flashing...

Fastening it into place...

 

Next, it was time to start dismantling more scaffolding!

 

And taking more down...



 Meanwhile, I was back in painting mode again.  I started out by painting all the window trim boards that Jim had made.

Then we put some runners up to sit higher than the trim boards, and put pieces of soffit up to be painted.

As they dried enough, we moved them to a staging area to finish drying.

Jim took down the piece of soffit he first tried out on the front corner of the house.  He had cut and fit it but it wasn't painted or fastened down.  Once I painted it and it dried, Jim predrilled the holes for the screws.  This is another task made so much harder by the steel framing - Jim said if it was wood framing, he would just staple it up.  

Putting the soffit back up all painted.

End-of-the-day picture....

 

Of course, that wasn't the end of Jim's day.  He stayed and did more car work.  He basically has things all put back together and the car is off the jacks.  He has a few things to go over tomorrow but then hopefully it will be back on the road again!

 

As soon as Jim got home, he started questioning whether or not he closed the front window where the air hose came out (you can see the hose in the picture above).  He couldn't remember closing it so he had to drive back out to the property.  It was good - he hadn't closed it - but sure made for a late night home for him.

 

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