25 july 2004 sunday

So these are from last weekend: the frame has now been covered by fresh new plywood, not a hole in sight. I have to admit, when I first learned what we were planning to do here, I wasn't sure how it was going to end up looking. But seeing the nearly-finished lines of this, I began to think it may end up looking pretty good. They built an entirely new sloping section on the right (below). The plywood is twisted slightly in order to improve the drainage line; if they'd just brought it straight out from the edge it would have been nearly level along the roof until its end. But no, no more puddling around here, nope nope. A new smaller triangular bit over on the left side too. While up on the roof, I noted our old dead TV antenna, still sitting upside-down on the roof where it had crashed down during a storm, um ... two winters ago? I happened to be right underneath there in the family room when it fell; man, that was loud. In the usual way of my family, it remained there, since: (a) we have cable, so we hadn't been using it anyway; (b) we thought we might want to put it back up if we cancel cable, as we have been talking about doing for at least that long; (c) not being certain whether to remove, restore, or replace it, and any option requiring some bother, other day-to-day issues took priority, and kept taking it. Here is part of the reason it fell: a rusty base section of the pole. The following morning after these pictures were taken, antenna went into the dumpster with the stairs and et cetera. Voila. But when we do decide to act on something, we do it thoroughly, by golly. As you can see, the old fiberglass patio roofing was taken off, leaving the frame; we're planning to put new on when everything else is done. Meanwhile, my dad noted that the wooden framing bits were awfully dirty, had old leftover glue junk on them, etc. So he spent last Sunday scrubbing them with some kind of bleach/cleaner solution. My mom fears this may be completely unnecessary, since if they're repainted you generally sand off the old paint first anyway, but it is certainly true that scrubbed looks significantly better than unscrubbed. In fact, the parts under the roof that have been relatively sheltered look pretty good and might not need new paint after all. Maybe. previous day | next day | journal archives index | other things email me using: carrie [at] purpletricycle [dot] com contents of purple tricycle are copyright 2004 carrie lynn king unless otherwise noted.