Today's Projects

After the painter finished there, we noticed some sagging in the trim over our bedroom windows. We tried (unsuccessfully) to get a carpenter to give us an estimate, so the painter, Tom, said that he would take a look this week. He pulled off the old trim and found evidence of old ice dams. (the primary cause of rot on this house) He recommended that Aaron take a closer look at it this weekend and see if he can fix it. Tom also recommended a different hardware store, way out in Woodsboro, MD that would have more of the odd cuts of lumber, etc. that we need with this house. We went there this morning and were very happy to find that they had everything that we needed, and they were friendly and helpful. Here are some pictures of the progress on the porch and exterior trim repair, stripping, and painting.

Here is the corner that Aaron worked SOOO hard to repair all summer, with its final coat of "Kryponite" as Tom calls it. Tom said that in the "annals of painting" our house will be known as the "green house" because he's filled so much of it with his fiberglass-epoxy wood filler. In many cases, it was the only way to save our 90 year old exterior trim. He said that a bucket of the green stuff usually lasts him a year, but he's now on his 2nd bucket, just for our house.



Here is the final, finished column base, no longer rotten, but very much composed out of the Kryptonite. There is almost no wood left on this side, but it looks great. Tom is not only a painter, but a sculptor as well.



Here is a picture of the side of the house, which is pretty much done- it looks wonderful!



The front, not so much- here is the huge hole over our bedroom window:



Hopefully, that will be gone by the end of the day! Stay tuned...