My job for today was to move the back door. The before photo is from our inspection with our agent Katie. The after shows where we closed in the old door space.That mean't taking off the vinyl siding, removing the sub wall in the new door space, building a sub wall in the old door 
space, and putting the siding back on. You can imagine my surprise when I pulled of the vinyl to find thin cement shingles. Even more surprising was the original weather boards under the shingles. We had 3 layers of wall!Needless to say the demolition took longer than expected but with Ruben's help we made great progress. The sun was going down and it was starting to rain when we called it a day. Now when you work up the stairs you turn right into the back door when before you would go straight into the kitchen. The goal of this move is to provide more space in the kitchen for the fridge.
The way we left the day was with a new door, with a great lock system installed by Jules, all of the vinyl that we could reuse back on the wall and waterproofing on the rest.
As we were getting to leave we had the most beautiful light. It was fun to see it shining down on our new house!
Lynn was at the house until 1 am this morning and I have updated the Ruby's Room blog to show her incredible progress. It's 9:45 at night and the girls have just headed back to the house to paint some more.
Sunday should be a hoot!
2 comments:
it been great being part if the progress. Fantastic blog!
Holy Moley!!!! You guys have done a terrific amount of work! I just found this blog (as I missed this email in the flurry of school and magazine deadlines..my apologies!)
I have read every page and can't wait to see it in person (someday soon, I hope!!)
Love to all, especially that cutie-pie Ruby!!!
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