A Couple of Projects We did Awhile Back . . .

This is the back porch off the kitchen.  If you enlarge the picture (by clicking on it), you can see that the floor of the room is wayyyyy below the bottom of the door going into the house.  Also, this back wall that we tore off was in such back shape from the rain and the wind, that we decided to rip it out completely and redo the wall from scratch.

This is what we tore off.

In this picture you can see the new wall from the inside (it's the wall to the far right side of the photo).  Also, this is the concrete pad that sits wayyyy below the kitchen door.

We decided the best way to raise the floor to the right height was to build a little deck in that space.

This is the second project we worked on.  I found this great door at a thrift store and we replaced the old door that did not have a window and was very flimsy with it. 

Still needs work but eventually it will be great!

The new door and the new new wall from the outside.

The house is moving along very slow and that is partially because the price of materials has sky-rocketed, but the main reason is because we are both moving slower these days and I am super busy with customer quilts, which is exhausting in it's own right!!

Until next time!!

 

Work is Moving Along, Slow but Sure . . .

 I am going to try to go back through this past year and write a new post on some of the projects that have been completed, mostly completed or are in progress.

In order to lay the hardwood floors, Kelly had to fix the rotten sub-flooring and the rotten floor joist in order to make sure we did not fall through the floor at the front door!!

This first picture shows the board (it's the one on the mat) that we placed over the hole near the front door when we first moved here almost 5 years ago.

Here you can see the rotting wood of the sub-flooring ~

Kelly is taking off the metal plate that was probably the cause of the leaking under the door that then caused the sub-flooring and the floor joint to rot over probably many, many years.

Here Kelly is tearing out the rotten floor to get to the rotten joists.

This is how much floor Kelly had to remove so he could fix the rotten joist.

This is all the crap he had to remove.

This is the new floor with the fixed joist underneath.

Good job, Kel!!  That was a lot of work!!