Fall

 

     Drill renail couple bad siding splits, replace missing front room wood grain linoleum temporarily patched siding piece (bare wood showing lower right), nickel job putty knife scrape reduce street side garage wall eye sore factor.  Might slobber with paint if appropriate materials materialize though garage requires major reworking.

Garage door only padlock secured remove nonfunctional old timey knob/striker

rudimentarily install keyed entry set,

striker plate, door stop molding further secure age/rot marginalized entry.

     Move on: disconnect front porch floor/walls from house, east porch wall first.

Remove recent renovation trim, weak 'handy board' composition siding find porch wall unsecured to house this side.

Replace siding/trim nail UNDER handy board siding - nails through composition material often damage siding upon removal -

result appears as prior.

Similar west wall endeavor allows removal single nail securing porch wall to house, imperceptible siding/trim replaced.  Rather than crawl under porch via west side entry to separate porch floor/house,

drill/saw both ends two composition boards next to house,

back out flooring screws.  Of course some strip.  Break one weak composition board attempting to pry over screws, drill hole next to stripped screw wonder bar pry board sideways break screws into holes,

up come reusable inconsequentially holed whole boards.  Remove dozen 3-1/2" flooring screws securing porch floor to house - free to raise here now.

Support board ends where sawn short of wall, broken piece doesn't align with joist - else might break under weight - replace minimally nailed.  Looks/functions almost as before.

Believe will rebuild floor foundation top level making it one step lower than door.

     Next logical step: separate back porch floor, walls from house.  Reticent turning back porch area construction zone open house looming go ahead anyway.  Pull/'lumberyard' stack floor Good Friday afternoon, remove multiple scabbed joist/ground supports leave collection cement blocks/slabs.

Yes: backyard tree root beelining under house.  It and friends will pass - apparently couldn't resist house interior power wash water.

My weight breaks one of only four original 16' 2x6 joists - pretty light construction.

Saturday work focused don't photograph 'til rotten supporting nothing west side back corner exterior siding/framing (rotten, breaks away behind stoop) removed, separate firewood/keepers, denail, 'lumberyard' stack (floor top shelf next to ceiling boards, siding below) good stuff,

wheelbarrow firewood to front porch, post supports corner.

String/nail plumb bob locate/level cement block on cement pad corner support; T 2x6/broken joist 2x6, 2x12 split foot; 20 ton jack roof from stoop; install post leave future stoop manipulation room.

Floor entirely gone, back wall final deconstruction piece.

Temporary stack blocks/brick back steps.  Sunday am first thing fall face to dirt negotiating - bruised wrist only harm done.  So it goes!  Experimental pallet landing soon.

New configuration more headroom.

Sunday am remove back wall siding,

from east stoop jack roof (orange 20 ton jack atop scrap braced 2x6), framing encouraged falls away.

Vertically locate/level 12"x12"x6" slab found under porch back wall center, corner support; T 2x6/broken joist 2x6, 2x12 cap/foot; raise roof; install post.

Views out back sink window,

back door expansive/open old porch gone.

The way it'll look for a while.  Trapped steel unconnected washer drain (below left of hose) pulled right out of the ground.  Move couple half ton stoops back door adjacent all need done! 

Gorgeous spring evening bike ride to clan Easter ham bake - full spring day!  Further planting awaits waxing moon, dry few days water kale, beet, kohlrabi, radish, lettuce, mustard, rutabaga, turnip seedlings.  Rogue wind levels gate again: beef 'er up, put 'er back to work.  Test ancient monolith persuasion skills (?!) soon:  it'll be here.  Peace.