Destruction Mode

We had a couple of workers out at the jobsite the last two days. The rain has gone...for now. More is predicted for this weekend. We are waiting on approval from an engineer to have the garage plans approved as 'wind storm rated'. It is going to cost us a few bucks more than expected, but not as much as previously thought. While we are waiting to pour the foundation, they have started work on the siding and porch. As you can see from the picture, the house looks pretty bad right now. The brick is all off and most of the vinyl siding is down.












The old wooden siding is looking rough. It is interesting to see how the house has evolved over time. You can tell that the original entry was on the left of the view above. This change must have been made just before adding the vinyl siding. There is also an old window that would look right into the shower if it hadn't been boarded up from the inside and then covered over with siding!


















We knew that we had previous termite damage on the water side of the house. The siding is pretty well eaten up and the porch has some structural issues. If we had waited another year to do the porch portion of the project, we might have been doing it because the porch fell down.

We laid out the spots for the new 4x4 posts to go on the porch. Hopefully, tomorrow they will make repairs to the porch structure, replace the rotten wooden siding (so that they can nail to it) and get the rest of the vinyl siding off the house. They will wrap the house with Tyvek and insulate between nail strips before putting up the Hardee Plank siding. We look forward to turning the corner on this phase of the project. This is simply destruction at this point.