Baymule’s Journal

[Alaskan]

3 Hereford hogs

Bacon seeds!!!

 

[Baymule]

There is a reason WHY I’m painting the boards before Chris puts them up—-so I don’t have to climb ladders and paint overhead!

 

[Ridgetop]

Better to paint them before installations. To do high areas you need a paint sprayer. We have one that we bought to spray paint the acoustical ceilings in our old apartment building. Glad we have it now since the new house in TX has those acoustical ceilings. I plan to scrape the living room ceiling since it is open to the kitchen but will leave the bedroom ceilings alone unless we decide to do some remodeling. The problem with paint sprayers is that you have to add some sort of thinning liquid to the paint. Also the clean up is messy and you have to wear a Balaclava type head and face covering since there is so much back spray. I prefer rollers. One good thing about spraying the acoustic type ceilings is that if you don't smoke the paint job stays good for a couple of paint jobs on the rooms.

Looking good. Can't wait to see how the back looks once the old room comes down.

 

[Baymule]

I painted soffit boards for the front of the house. I had 2 sheets of plywood in the shipping container and 2 pieces we scrapped from last week and Chris took down some plywood from that back addition that we are going to tear down. While he measured and cut them, I broomed, scraped and painted the back soffit.

Then I painted the boards for the front soffit

I’m tired! I made chicken and sausage gumbo yesterday. Supper!

 

[Ridgetop]

Adding sweat equity!!!

 

[Baymule]

Problem putting up the front soffit. Whoever DS had working on the house before put up the fascia board on practically even with the rafter ends. So when Chris put up the soffit board, it looked like this.

The fascia board didn’t cover the edge of the soffit. The fascia board was put on with huge nails, in some places driven through the metal trim pieces as well. Taking it down would take several days and tear up the fascia and probably the metal trim too. The actual rafters are mostly above the fascia board, but some kind of support board (short piece) is not, so Chris is taking that off, cutting it and putting it back on. Where he has to, he’ll shave off some of the rafter. This is probably not a good description, but he’s making it work.

Yesterday was the first day in 3 1/2 weeks since I fell in the shipping container and jammed my good knee, that I haven’t taken any Advil. I limped around but made it until 1, then quit. Wasn’t anything I could do except get in the way at that point anyway. LOL

Not much I can do today to help Chris, so maybe I’ll start cleaning out the back room for demolition.

 

[Ridgetop]

OMG! Ripping out and repairing other people's DIY projects before you can do your renovations is always the most time-consuming part. New construction is so much easier and quicker!

 

[Baymule]

Chris used his saws zall to trim the ends of the rafters.

Looks good now!

 

[Alaskan]

Chris used his saws zall to trim the ends of the rafters.

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Looks good now!

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I had no idea that there was such a big gap between the brick and the roof on a house!

 

[Mini Horses]

I'm looking at that, too Alaskan. Strange.