Current Tally

Facia and Soffit...done
Gutters................done
Brickwork...........almost done
Tower..................pending
Inside...................in progress
Painting...............in progress

Some Progress

Remember the tower bedroom? Here's what it looks like now...I am thankful for progress, even though the room is not finished.

Let it rain...not really

Samuel and his crew have installed gutters for us. The gutters are white, but the downspouts are rosewood to partially blend with the brick.

Kudos to Samuel and crew!

Soffit and Facia

Remember the missing facia and soffit on the west side? Well, Jimmy, Nate, Leon and Jim got busy and replaced it all.

Thanks guys!

Take down

We have rented a 6 cubic yard dumpster for the demo trash. We had a two cubic yard dumpster, but it wasn't big enough, so after a month we went to six cubic yards. It has been dumped three times so far.

Squirrels no more...I hope

Lester and I removed branches that were hanging over the house. The squirrels used them to get on the roof.

Weary Travelers

We were visited by a group of Monarch butterflies who must have been migrating south for the winter.

Fourth of July in the House

We had to have a structural issue solved, namely how do you fix a dropped header? By welding of course. Zach welded some steel panels to an "I" beam to keep the floor from dropping.

 

Brick problems with creative solutions

We needed some bricks so we went a hunting (that would be "huntn" in Georgia language). The bricks came from a building that is scheduled for demo. The interesting thing is that the building belonged to Bones (nickname) Lionberger who was the second owner of our house.

Mark, Sally and Lester took the bricks off the building.

Yes, we had permission.

More work, sheetrock sure is heavy

We had 100 sheets of drywall delivered by Lowes.

They dropped the sheets off. Kyle did help me with about twenty sheets. I moved sixty sheets by myself and then Russ Hopkins, a church member, helped me with the last twenty sheets which we took upstairs.

Facia and soffit

Work in other areas has also begun. Jim also sealed the leak on the top of the tower.

I got up to the top but had the wrong materials. Note: How do you get someone else to do your work? Take the wrong materials up with you.

International Harvester Red

The beams in the basement that David primed were painted Inernational Harvester red, sorry John Deere people!

Always there is demo

David did more take down.

The hole is gone!!! Yeah

Let me remind you of our first brick issue, remember that hole?

Well, Lester got to work and the hole was repaired.