Stripped, studded and naked. (dial up warning)

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Too late for architecture and would have had to gotten some sympathy votes from those that have been through renovations. This is where I will be for the foreseeable future.

Front of house just before starting to strip off siding.


Nook and entry before.


West side of house before.


Back of house on Day1.


Tearing out door, to replace with window…eventually.


Day 1-East side of house stripped. Getting new plywood where needed and Tyvek.


Day 2- new siding on east side of house, the easy side.


Day 2-rip out window and wall to replace on side of kitchen nook.

And all we wanted was to replace the windows and siding. :rofl:


Day 3-east side of front naked.


Day 3-front of nook stripped, studded, framed out for new window, then getting covered because windows are now a week late. Might get here the 12th. :grr:


It is so dark in my nook and kitchen right now with no windows.


A small peek at the nightmare to be uncovered tomorrow.


Tomorrow they strip off the rest of the front, get everything right for new windows there and cover everything with plywood and Tyvek. No natural light on the north side of the house until my windows get here. Still fighting with them on when and now on price, if I have to wait as long as “van delivery” then I want the lower price. :grr: :grr: :banghead:
Though have found that if you are stuck on hold for 15 minutes complaining to corporate they will send you a &75.00 gift card.

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1. Looks like fun.

:evilgrin:

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2. Only to a masochist. lol

Keep reminding myself, it will be great to not heat and cool the outdoors, mother nature can do that herself. Would remind myself we would have cheaper electric bills but they are raising the rate 38% June 1st and shot that to hell. I don't have it bad just yet, just listen to the hammering and cussing. The rate of each lets me know how bad whatever they uncovered is. I just remind them I warned them the house would be a pain.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Your house sounds like mine

Every time we go to fix something, we end up just shaking our heads. I think the best example is when we had a pitched roof put on over the previous flat roof and we learned that the house is not square - at all. All the trusses had to be specially made to compensate for the different measurement from one end of the house to the other.

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4. Since this house isn't squared at

all I know that feeling. My first warning to anyone working on this house, if it should take and hour, count on 5. If it should take a day, count on 5 and it will take 5 times longer than it should no matter how much time is involved. The up side is because we are residing the whole thing and redoing interior walls we could try to get the windows the same size in rooms and get new construction windows instead of replacement.

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5. The continuing saga of missing

windows and getting the house resided.

Day 4 more windows removed, framed out and covered over.




Day 5 Still no windows so the siding goes on part of the front of the house.


Day 6 And the new windows still aren't here, two weeks late now. So they added the shutters before getting rained out. Oh and they put up my star really well so it should never fall off.


Day 7 They added another pair of shutters in between and took out another window.




At least I can see how much better it is going to look once they are done now. It has also been neat taking a photo a day, except for rainy ones, and seeing the tree get greener each day. The windows should be here Monday. It looks like about the time the siding and windows get done the tree will be blocking the house though. But the shade is very welcome once hot weather hits.