By Saturday evening, we had the tower and some of the decking up.
By late Sunday afternoon, we had the bridge in place and all the
decking screwed down on the main platform. We will still need
something higher to reach the siding and trim pieces above the
window.
Here are a few close-up shots of the damage to the trim boards so
you can see why we're replacing all of it.
This weekend we were able to get the second layer of scaffolding built
and some of the demo done.
I got the top level of scaffolding up and finished tearing off the old
siding and trim today.
The top level of scaffolding was a little shaky until I tied the
middle level to the house with two of these braces.
I also installed the first piece of house wrap at the peak of the roof.
I reframed the window today, and resized the blank that we have
filling the hole until we get the new window.
The rest of the house wrap is up.
The window is in. We also installed the flashing for the horizontal
joint in the siding panels and the first piece of siding.
Here's a shot of the window from the inside of the house.
We installed two more siding panels and some trim boards today. I'm
using the framing hammer and some stainless steel nails to install all
of these and it's going a lot faster than our previous jobs. In the
last two siding and trim jobs
(garage and
front entry)
time, I nailed the panels up by hand and screwed the trim boards on.
Using the nailer is so much faster and easier that I can't believe I
ever tried to work without it.
Here's something that we will have to have fixed fairly soon.
Unfortunately, this job isn't something we feel capable of tackling on
our own so I'm afraid it's gonna cost us.
