The downspout is properly attached ( Read more... )

The sliding door/siding/deck/overhang project is finished ( Read more... )

Do-able in a day? Yes. Do-able in the two and a half hours before the heavens opened up and the deluge commenced? Not so much ( Read more... )

The shingles are up ( Read more... )

It was too cold and wet today to put anything up, but I did get most of the trim cut and pre-painted. The fancy plastic-composite trim boards do not take paint well; I may be in for a problem. But I'll worry about that when it gets here ( Read more... )

I put flea stuff on the cats this morning, which involved first going to the vet for more flea stuff. A "six month" supply goes fast, with three cats ( Read more... )

It's a surprisingly decent day out today, much nicer than predicted. I really should be out there putting shingles on the overhangs ( Read more... )

The overhangs are up.

Not done, mind. But they're both built, first-coat painted, and suitably adorned with drip edge, flashing, and ice&water shield. IOW, minimum acceptable weather-proof. I just finished. Yes, in the dark ( Read more... )

Got a late and slow start today. I built the brackets for the second overhang, and got three of the four put up. The fourth is waiting on the one bit of pre-overhang trim, which is cut (I had to rip down a board lengthways, and splice two bits together to get it long enough) and sitting in the garage while the paint on the back-and-hard-to-reach- ( Read more... )

Got the first overhang put up. I think it will look pretty good once I get the drip edge, shingles, etc. attached; these things hide a multitude of sins. For all that it looks a bit... haphazard... in its unfinished state, it also looks "right" for the house ( Read more... )