- Dave finished rewiring the carriage house - Dave installed a new porch outlet - Dave swapped a few outlets and switches - Continued reorganizing the attic - Begun fixing up Perry's room (bit of an unfinished mess in there) - Planted a tree! Aaron's Sourwood now lives in the south yard. - Aaron removed one of the beds in the front yard (used the plants to fill in elsewhere with better sunlight & made more yard space)
- Attended an all-day historic home restoration workshop - Bought window repair supplies - Cleaned out workspace in the carriage house - Disassembled one of the kitchen's wood sash windows - Removed glazing and paint from the frame and both sashes of that window and the lower sash of another
- Jackie scraped & drylocked the basement workshop walls - Lincoln & Jackie masonry painted half the workshop - Aaron continued working on the kitchen window - Andy and co. fixed the carriage house roof & structure (!) - Jackie primed Perry's closet - Lincoln cleaned & painted the workshop floor with epoxy - Contracted a facade restoration service (for repairing & painting the siding) - Bought and assembled shelves; figured out shelving / storage plan - Jimmy & Ryan moved Nicole's studio to the newly-appointed basement room - Work began on the total restoration of the house's street-facing sides
- Facade restoration continued & finished (street-facing sides) - Metal roof (shake shingle style) was installed on the carriage house - Ryan hooded the attic windows & reinstalled basement storm windows - Ryan repaired some basement windows so they'd close properly - Aaron continued work on the new pub beer shelves - Jackie painted Perry's closet - Nicole moved her office space into the workshop & finished setting it up - Bought a high-power heater for the basement - Bought a chest freezer (we need the capacity...) - Dave fixed a shorted outlet & moved/re-wired the security system - Fixed great room radiator cover (never got reinstalled properly) - Reinstalled solar-powered yard lamp for winter
Buttoning things up for winter after this week, and then it'll just be interior projects til spring rolls around.
- Prepped the pub for painting the ceiling - Reorganized the cellar room to fit more paint & supplies - Cleaned the main floor of the house now that 6 weeks of contractors is over
This winter we've been taking it nice and slow while weathering the severe cold and snow:
- Top of the front stairwell ceiling was painted by Joe - Danny came and fixed the ceiling seam in the kitchen (water damage) - Danny replaced a support missing under the back stairs (rotted) - Planned out spring renovations - Andy came to discuss spring projects & take measurements for the carriage house doors - Aaron & Lincoln disassembled and paint-stripped 2 kitchen window wooden sashes - Aaron cleaned & restored the 2 sashes - Ryan cut new glass for the 2 sashes - Aaron re-puttied & Lincoln repainted the 2 sashes - Cycled out more lights with LEDs - Patched and sanded holes from moving alarm system - Scraped & oil primed the patch of ceiling in the turret we originally left unpainted due to water damage - Aaron cut temporary trim for the backdoor - Took out a mortgage (whew) & changed home insurance - Dave replaced 5 more light switches with antique push-button models
Andy built & installed new custom replica carriage house doors on the alley side, an entry door, a trap door on the second floor, and the two casement windows upstairs.
Dave installed lights on the carriage house in the alley & replaced a couple more lightswitches with antique versions.
We got halfway done with painting the back of the house & porch, carriage house trim, and new doors.
Aaron continued planting flowers everywhere and preparing for next year's landscaping.
We moved all our house pieces & supplies to the second floor of the carriage house, where Aaron has spent many afternoons organizing and cataloging. The attic was cleared over the course of 4 days as part of this process.
We assembled 54 framed black & white photos of friends helping us with the renovation process and hung them in the hall & stairs.
Cleaned out the first floor of the carriage house.
Installed pavers in front yard under the garbage & recycling cans.
Bought 5 planters & decorative grass and put them in the alley.
Shoveled excess dirt out of alley.
Bought and shoveled a yard of pea gravel into the backyard.
First coat of red on the ballisters on the back porch.
Primed the trim around the yard door of the carriage house.
Finished the first paint coat on the carriage house trim (gray).
Removed the pub porch screen door.
Scraped and sanded door trim on pub porch door.
Removed hardware from both back doors.
Packed up the pub & turret (first floor) in anticipation of floor sanding.
Significantly cut back the front yard hedges & raked out the beds for spring.
Aaron has an entire mini green house of flowering plants started in the attic.
Installed LED lights shining on the top section of the turret.
Over the fall & winter, the upstairs of the carriage house was also fully organized into a wood workshop by Aaron. Last month, work also started on de-creaking the front staircase (via Andy & Danny).
Cleaned & clear-coated original tile floor in vestibule.
Stepping stones added to carriage house.
New threshold and step poured at carriage house yard door.
Minor repairs to multiple doors that warped slightly.
Fixed door from front porch into office.
Trimmed in that same door.
Added screen doors to that same door and the north door.
Replaced lightswitch in Kyle's room.
Replaced light fixture in basement turret.
Fix attic electric line cut by roofers (the line was in the wrong spot, not their bad).
Bought cheap removable window screens for 7 windows in increase airflow in summer.
Tore off previous two roofs (including original shake).
Replaced main roof with new architectural shingle and all-copper flashing.
Replaced turret roof with new cedar shake and capped with a copper weathervane.
Covered front left skirting and walkout in new cedar shake.
Rebuilt turret "widow's walk" (think "crows nest") completely and sealed in rubber.
Rebuilt & sealed rotted "Queen Anne water return" on northwest roof corner.
Completely reorganized / moved every single thing in attic twice due to roofing (it all had to be covered in the middle of the room due to falling debris).
Painting touchups were done to several parts of the facade.
Opened a revolving credit line with my credit union.
Aaron made new wall-mounted boards for coat hooks for the first floor closet.
Got all 5 trees & the lilac trimmed - possibly their first ever.
In the fall, Soley replaced the water boiler / domestic hot water combo unit. It had developed a leak in the condenser which was determined to be a fault in the unit's design, since corrected. The upside is: free brand new boiler with a new 7-year warranty. Not a bad trade-off for having a little water on the basement floor! We also used the necessary draining of the system to replace a few radiator bleeder & control valves around the house.
Comments
- Dave finished rewiring the carriage house
- Dave installed a new porch outlet
- Dave swapped a few outlets and switches
- Continued reorganizing the attic
- Begun fixing up Perry's room (bit of an unfinished mess in there)
- Planted a tree! Aaron's Sourwood now lives in the south yard.
- Aaron removed one of the beds in the front yard (used the plants to fill in elsewhere with better sunlight & made more yard space)
- Attended an all-day historic home restoration workshop
- Bought window repair supplies
- Cleaned out workspace in the carriage house
- Disassembled one of the kitchen's wood sash windows
- Removed glazing and paint from the frame and both sashes of that window and the lower sash of another
- Jackie scraped & drylocked the basement workshop walls
- Lincoln & Jackie masonry painted half the workshop
- Aaron continued working on the kitchen window
- Andy and co. fixed the carriage house roof & structure (!)
- Jackie primed Perry's closet
- Lincoln cleaned & painted the workshop floor with epoxy
- Contracted a facade restoration service (for repairing & painting the siding)
- Bought and assembled shelves; figured out shelving / storage plan
- Jimmy & Ryan moved Nicole's studio to the newly-appointed basement room
- Work began on the total restoration of the house's street-facing sides
- Facade restoration continued & finished (street-facing sides)
- Metal roof (shake shingle style) was installed on the carriage house
- Ryan hooded the attic windows & reinstalled basement storm windows
- Ryan repaired some basement windows so they'd close properly
- Aaron continued work on the new pub beer shelves
- Jackie painted Perry's closet
- Nicole moved her office space into the workshop & finished setting it up
- Bought a high-power heater for the basement
- Bought a chest freezer (we need the capacity...)
- Dave fixed a shorted outlet & moved/re-wired the security system
- Fixed great room radiator cover (never got reinstalled properly)
- Reinstalled solar-powered yard lamp for winter
Buttoning things up for winter after this week, and then it'll just be interior projects til spring rolls around.
- Reorganized the cellar room to fit more paint & supplies
- Cleaned the main floor of the house now that 6 weeks of contractors is over
- Top of the front stairwell ceiling was painted by Joe
- Danny came and fixed the ceiling seam in the kitchen (water damage)
- Danny replaced a support missing under the back stairs (rotted)
- Planned out spring renovations
- Andy came to discuss spring projects & take measurements for the carriage house doors
- Aaron & Lincoln disassembled and paint-stripped 2 kitchen window wooden sashes
- Aaron cleaned & restored the 2 sashes
- Ryan cut new glass for the 2 sashes
- Aaron re-puttied & Lincoln repainted the 2 sashes
- Cycled out more lights with LEDs
- Patched and sanded holes from moving alarm system
- Scraped & oil primed the patch of ceiling in the turret we originally left unpainted due to water damage
- Aaron cut temporary trim for the backdoor
- Took out a mortgage (whew) & changed home insurance
- Dave replaced 5 more light switches with antique push-button models
March:
Pics dammit!
April & May it was all about the carriage house and backyard:
Summer 2014 slowed down the pace, as expected:
Awesome
Year 4! Step it up!
So far in in April:
Over the fall & winter, the upstairs of the carriage house was also fully organized into a wood workshop by Aaron. Last month, work also started on de-creaking the front staircase (via Andy & Danny).
Today:
This week:
Over the weekend:
This week:
Weekend:
Nice work... I cannot wait to see the place at EPIC!
This week & weekend:
Last 2 weeks have been a bit slower with the house torn up for floor sanding. Fast & furious work will resume the 30th.
The rest of May thru today:
The rest of summer 2015 thru yesterday (Sunday):
This should round out 2015:
Jan - June, 2016:
July 2016:
In the fall, Soley replaced the water boiler / domestic hot water combo unit. It had developed a leak in the condenser which was determined to be a fault in the unit's design, since corrected. The upside is: free brand new boiler with a new 7-year warranty. Not a bad trade-off for having a little water on the basement floor! We also used the necessary draining of the system to replace a few radiator bleeder & control valves around the house.