Well, the work continued today on the exterior of the house. I took a few and will post them for your enjoyment.
There were a few more setbacks today. Good news is that I DID find a key for the moulder. I also found out why the other key broke. It was operator error. When I set up the moulder for planing, I wasn’t paying attention, and set up the rollers for moulding, which put too much tension on them for planing, which is why the key snapped. Oh well.
So I set up the moulder for moulding, put in the knives for the exterior trim, and … came to a screeching halt. The knives are too tall and hit against the chip deflector. So I had to take them back to where I had them made, and have him cut them down. He’s backed up because he is in Shively and had no power for a week, and, being that he is a machine shop, well, nothing was machined for a week.
I talked to the carpenter today about the cornerboard reveal. He knew what he was doing, and that was not the permanent reveal. That was just a storyboard / spacekeeper. Anyway, rather than use poplar cornerboards, I went ahead and ordered some S4S cypress from Tiny Timbers, milled to 6/4 x 3 1/2. It will be ready (hopefully) Wednesday.
The soffit rebuilding is time consuming. I hope we’re not looking at completely rebuilding the entire run of horizontal soffit, or we’ll end up like WaMu! We’re figuring the front upper part will be finished by Friday. The crew is off on another site tomorrow.
Here are the pictures from today’s work.
This is basically two days worth of work. Not bad, but I had hoped to see a bit more progress. I expect that once they start getting “into a groove” they’ll progress faster.
Here’s a close-up of the work. The soffit looks pretty good.
Here’s a “batman camera angle” picture of the work. On the section to the left, where you only see the felt paper, the box gutter is filled with pinholes and will need to be re-lined. Additionally, at least one of the lookouts will need to be replaced at the inside corner back there. Ugh!
Here’s a close-up view with our paint chip next to the window.