Nightmare on Elm St.

The journey of turning the nightmare we bought on Elm St. into our dream home...

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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Ahead of the game

Tonight we decided to tackle another project from THE LIST- that dreaded window header project. In trying to decide why we've dreaded this project so tremendously, we think that it was just because we had to remove some framing, which always sucks! The project went exceedingly smoothly, for a change!

Here is the window header with our bad framing removed:

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This time we ACTUALLY MEASURED CAREFULLY!

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We still had a few remnants of our old framing to deal with, at least Aaron has the tools for this nail removal job!

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Aaron made a lot of cuts, and a lot of recuts, to get everything perfect!

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We added my Dad's secret weapon for the final assembly- wood glue!

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Final installation...

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And finally... (drumroll please) a solid, level windowsill!

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Woo hoo! List, you're going down! Grunt work strikes again!