Porch a keeper finish side - move two pieces back porch interior siding; screen - door salvaged - front porch gable area.
Kate donates perfect piece lattice, bike wing home, utility knife size, brad/lath mate two halves, four nail mount finish gable/attic vent 'til paint prep time - least couple years down the road. Note nice 'new' frosted fluted lamp globe - max diffusion - hope it lasts!
Remedial porch work necessary. Large porch flooding hole above door - can't wait for roof/shake tear off - leaks profusely during rain
find discard rubber floor mat sneak under brittle shingle course at top, six nail: buy some time.
Remove trim/plywood half wall interior from relatively recent front porch rehab find stud walls fixing 4x4 floor length corner posts
in (wrong) places: barely under porch beams
compounded by over wide beam bottom board (above: original near/far replaced) - precarious (west corner),
water collecting.
Anticipate raising east (not this west) porch corner first install temporary safety support/sculpture. Porch roof line downward deflection evident.
Of course jack west side first. Latest firewood batch 4x6, jack, board
raise 4" - roof line deflection gone.
Board under east (door side) porch beam rotten under post here replaced with good original extra thick under front beam plank
run long increasing - with 2" 8x8 raise/cap block - bearing surface.
Front beam bottom wide board removed reveals dry rot in near lower 2x4. Middle post not doing much, precarious still.
West post more solid with double 2" 8x8 blocks, bearing surface increasing beam bottom plank chunk mated at 45 - evident from this angle. Satisfied front porch house manipulation stabilized.
Eventually will rework bad match porch siding, walls, perhaps floor - pretty much everything below rafters (& above!) - seek couple nice columns, lower porch a step: later.
Elmer's glue/TP rutabaga, turnip, kohlrabi, carrot seed tape;
plant. Neighbor donated strawberries with garlic along foundation top right; radishes showing front of them; salad greens; red Russian kale; rutabaga, turnip, kohlrabi; carrots left. Besides more radishes done planting for a while. Squash, beans, corn next to side walk, melons, cukes, okra garden south (lower left) - yum.
Local & dog - Doc & Cindy - stop by to check my work occasionally.
Back porch next focus. Will tear out interior; ancient electrical setup: as always see how it goes as it goes. Clean board jumble out of garage corner next to spare windows/glass: large chipboard, plywood pieces, glued boards, screen door, shorter molding/window pieces now.
Window pane frame expand 'lumberyard' shelf for back porch influx, garage boards load bottom shelf
clears back porch for action. East,
west - relocated front gable siding missing right.
Back porch much noodled, enigmatic: continue cautiously. Perhaps happy discoveries await like fine summer hat at Sal A's this am.
Enjoy. Peace.
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