Dad and Cory worked at the house last week Wednesday and finished up the soffit and facia. What a surprise they found when they went to remove the big ugly vents on the side of the house! They removed the "triangles" and the vents in the middle, and found it was completely open to the attic behind the siding. We now figured out where all the little birdies were hiding out when they would fly up there. When the siding was initially installed, they had nailed 2x2's on the back of the triangle cut outs which, when installed, left the siding sitting off the 2x4's used for the framing of the walls. They had trimmed some mesh screen to cover the open edges, which they should have completely screened off the whole thing instead. What a mess! There were bird nests galore and Dad said you could tell they'd had a nice cozy home for quite some time. Well, not anymore!!! Dad and Cory fixed that issue, and now it's funny watching the sparrows fly up there and not have a clue where their home disappeared to. HAHA! :)
Here is a previous pic of a little birdie hiding out...
But not anymore!!
Once the ends of the house were fixed, they could install the soffit. Dad and Cory made boxes for the corners of the house, installed the soffit and facia, and Cory finished everything up on Thursday. It looks awesome!! I can't wait to see it with the new siding! :)
Discussing a job well done...
Thursday after work I decided to tackle the painting of the garage walk-in door, aka Cory's door. I figured if the weather is supposed to start getting colder, I should get that painted while it was nice out. I did the first coat on Thursday night while Cory and Chad cleaned out the garage. There was a bunch of junk left in the rafters, and the boys got that all taken down and thrown into the dumpster. We also decided that instead of rolling insulation in the attic, we are going to blow it in instead. That means all the insulation we had purchased was able to be returned to Menards and cleared out of the garage. WOOHOO!! That freed up a lot of room. When Chad and I went to Menards, Cory worked on organizing the garage more. It looks 100 times better than it did before! It will now be a lot more efficient for working in as well.
The next day, I took off work early and went back to the house with Cory. I painted a second and third coat on the garage door, and Cory tore off the first row of siding on the house. Between coats of paint, I also went around the house and picked up more fallen siding, etc., and I also removed the window well covers, as they were all broken to bits and doing no good anyway. The two of us had a nice afternoon outside in the beautiful weather listening to music and working away!
When Chad got off work, he came over to the house for a bit too. He and Cory discussed what to do with the concrete on the side of the garage, as well as a few other details of upcoming projects. After Cory took off, Chad and I went in the house and started pulling nails from the studs where Chad and Cory had removed sheetrock in the living room and kitchen. By the way MOM...you need to come get your fridge out of the kitchen. We are now having to work around it, and it needs to find it's home in your basement! :) Hopefully one of these days all of us kids can get that thing moved to Iowa!
This coming week, weather cooperating, we will be getting to the doors and windows of the house. What a change that will be! However, we know we will have some work to be done, as the house for some reason was built with 2x3 construction and not 2x4. Most houses now days are built with 2x6 construction! We are going to be updating the exterior walls of the living room and kitchen with 2x4's and then we will be able to install windows and doors. I'm sure we will run across some other hiccups, but hopefully all will go well! Check back next week for more updates on our progress!
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