September 30, 2007
porch progress
The framing inspection on the porch went well, and we’ve* since put down the tongue&groove floor and rebuilt the bottoms of the columns.
The porch roof had been jacked up on 2×10s for something like 8 weeks, it is nice to see them gone.
*We on this has mostly been Jim at Reveal, with us as labor and helpers. Next up is sanding & bondo & sanding to clean up some of the details, with which we may be able to be self-sufficient.
Jacking the porch up exposed some rot at one corner that now needs to be dealt with. OF COURSE.
It looks great. Are those new steps?
Nope, they’re the same indeterminately-aged cement steps that’ve always been there (and will likely outlast the ret of the house)…
[...] porch, we are kind of in a better place with it now. The framing and flooring have been made new, columns have been rebuilt, and today we were able to sand, bondo, and prime the column bottoms so that they blend in almost [...]