The insulation is in and the blue board is going up.
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Category: Life with Pratts
Pratt Porch Project – Days 12, 13
Day 12 was exclusively more shingling on the outside. I won’t post pictures of that until it’s done. Day 13 had another unplanned improvement. The sliding glass door has been replaced. We did it for a variety of reasons. First, it was 30 years old and we knew it would need replacing eventually. It would be more expensive and much more difficult to do it later. And although we thought it was working all right, occasionally it got off its track, and it never operated completely smoothly in the nine years we’ve lived here. Once it had been removed it was obvious that one of the wheels was broken.
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I’ve included a picture of the new living room window that’s nine inches narrower than the original. Some of the wallpaper had to be removed to get it ready for the finish work, and the next thing we knew the decision was made to remove ALL of the wallpaper! So I stripped the wall, took down the custom drapes that came with the house, and pulled out all of the mounting hardware. I’ll strip the rest of the living room, wash off the glue, and paint it whatever color Carol wants.
Purgatory Chasm Charm
Yesterday, we hiked the poor man’s Grand Canyon, Purgatory Chasm in Sutton, Massachusetts. That sure looks like me in that picture, but as far as I know it isn’t. I grabbed it from here. But I own a green cap, gray t-shirt, and green shorts just like those. Weird.
Purgatory Chasm is a fun and free excursion. But be careful! It can be dangerous. Stay on the blue trail and you’ll be through it, and back along the rim, in less than an hour.
Pratt Porch Project – Day 11
We’re in one of those phases when there’s activity but the changes don’t appear to be huge. That will change when the wall board goes up.
The left photo shows the shingle that’s going up outside, and the new, smaller window that makes the porch wall intersection possible. The middle picture shows where the ceiling fan will go, and some of the electrical work. And on the right is more wiring and the wall sleeve for the air conditioner, loosely placed in the opening to check for fit. The wall sleeve came from an outfit in New Jersey called AM Royal, as mentioned back on day 3.
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Pratt Porch Project – Day 10
As the actor Jack Hawkins says in the movie The Bridge on the River Kwai, “there’s always the unexpected, isn’t there?” If you look at this photo from day 2 of the porch project, you will see the shingle siding intact on the back of the house. We didn’t plan on removing it to make the outside wall of the house look like an inside wall, but that is what’s going to happen.
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The small window in the left photo doesn’t open, to avoid conflicting with the kitchen casement window. In the middle photo you can look through the left window to see the new window in the living room. Whoever built the porch framed it too close to the window, so a smaller one has been installed, allowing the wall to meet the house properly. And the blue dumpster seen through the window at right belongs to the house next door, which is for sale.
Pratt Porch Project – Days 7, 8, 9
I’ll cheat and combine days. A couple of them were half-days with work that wouldn’t be obvious. Concrete footings for additional support were set, and now the beam and posts have been added, but I won’t bore you with that. The windows are in, and it’s looking a lot more like a room now.
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