When the weather is good, we make progress on the siding
Yes, the difference between the pictures above and below is a full day's work for three people.
The siding is face-screwed with these 3.5" stainless steel screws ($200/box). The square drive scheme is unfortunately inclined to stripping, requiring that the screw be backed out with pliers.
Steve and his son Zak finish out the peak using a plank on ladder jacks.
And when the weather isn't good - we don't do nothing since no one can make it up the hill.
The painters Marty and Michael have started with priming the sheetrock. I told these two I wanted to get a picture of them at work and Michael quipped that would be a hard pic to get.
But I persisted --- here is Michael spraying the first color coat on the kitchen ceiling:
The primed walls in the music room
Upstairs hall, with recyled windows in place.
The other side of that wall - recycled windows and fancy attic stairs
The most serious hitch was the radiant floor tubing lost pressure with a slow leak. It can be very hard to find a leak after the sheetrock is up. But the carpenter doing the sheetrock backing for the chase in the closet holding the plumbing vents had used a nailgun to put a board on the floor. Thats a no-no and when he mentioned it, it became the focus of looking for the leak. Sure enough, when the closet wall was taken down and board removed it changed from a slow to a fast leak. To fix it we cut out a piece of flooring on either side of the wall
then a guy from Sundance came out and cut out the section of tube with the nail hole in it
and crimped in a fresh piece. The junctions for the radiant heat are much tougher than the standard plumbing (PEX) material to handle the temperature and potential pressure.
The other area of work is preparing the trim wood for the inside. As you may recall, we moved with several thousand board feet of Douglas Fir wind-fall from our property on Vashon. We made lists of the board sizes we need for each door and window, and Steve started cutting it up. You go through a big pile of wood so fast it is scary. Hopefully we have enough - knock on wood!
Next we convert wood to sawdust.
We started the planing using a portable generator since the barn does not have power. But by running parallel my old extension cords and a 250' roll of 12 guage Romex I had on hand, I could span most of the 300' to the barn with the equivalent of 9 guage wire. My boss Jim used a web site to determine the voltage drop is 5-8 volts; so wall power is giving 115-120 volts which actually is quite a bit better than we were getting out of the generator - as everyone could tell instantly by the happier whine.
Eric feeds my new planer while Zak supports the output, converting the rough-cut wood to finished consistent width and a sizeable pile of sawdust.
Then they bring the fnished wood from the barn to the house to have the edges done with the jointer which needs 220 power.
Todays nature shot: as the weather warms, the sheet of snow on the north side of the metal roof slides and curles over the eave, converting icicles into something rooty.
And before all our money is gone, we acquired a higher mileage vehicle.
then a guy from Sundance came out and cut out the section of tube with the nail hole in it
and crimped in a fresh piece. The junctions for the radiant heat are much tougher than the standard plumbing (PEX) material to handle the temperature and potential pressure.
The other area of work is preparing the trim wood for the inside. As you may recall, we moved with several thousand board feet of Douglas Fir wind-fall from our property on Vashon. We made lists of the board sizes we need for each door and window, and Steve started cutting it up. You go through a big pile of wood so fast it is scary. Hopefully we have enough - knock on wood!
Next we convert wood to sawdust.
We started the planing using a portable generator since the barn does not have power. But by running parallel my old extension cords and a 250' roll of 12 guage Romex I had on hand, I could span most of the 300' to the barn with the equivalent of 9 guage wire. My boss Jim used a web site to determine the voltage drop is 5-8 volts; so wall power is giving 115-120 volts which actually is quite a bit better than we were getting out of the generator - as everyone could tell instantly by the happier whine.
Eric feeds my new planer while Zak supports the output, converting the rough-cut wood to finished consistent width and a sizeable pile of sawdust.
Then they bring the fnished wood from the barn to the house to have the edges done with the jointer which needs 220 power.
Todays nature shot: as the weather warms, the sheet of snow on the north side of the metal roof slides and curles over the eave, converting icicles into something rooty.
And before all our money is gone, we acquired a higher mileage vehicle.
