Update 9.30.12 – Trim

LOTS got done!  With Dad and James’s help this weekend I was able to get all the major trim-board up!  I still have to trim out the windows and doors but I can do that solo through the week.  I needed help, since I’m still broken AND because it was some cumbersome trim.  It was a success though and it looks GREAT!  I was also able to get all the deck-boards cut, they will be stained and sealed and then installed soon!  Still to do on this trim work is some screws, I will need to get up on a ladder that is a little tough with a broken foot, soon though and until then they will be A-O-K with the nails Dad and James put in.  I will also go through and caulk all the seams and paint the trim… I am still working on the details but it will most likely be black.

On another note, you know all that extra insulation I had left over, I sold it all!  I bought ALL of my insulation for $1,000.  It turns out I bought WAY too much, the rest I threw up on Craigslist.  I sold the REMAINING insulation for $1,294.  This means I got ALL of my insulation for free essentially AND made close to $300 on top of that.  I can’t complain about that!

Throughout the week I will work on trimming out the openings and keep planing the siding boards.  I have made a big dent in those but still have a lot more to go!  It’s all coming along well, I think it will start to feel a lot cooler to me from this point on, we are basically into the ‘finish work’, that’s where I get my kicks!  Everything to this point has been amazing though 🙂

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho its Off to Work I go!

Ok, so maybe not 'I go to work'... James and Dad helped me put up all the trimboards this weekend, I was a bit gun-shy to get on the roof again so soon... Can you blame me...

`Earlier this week James and I were able to rip all the front face trim boards at an angle. I wanted the trim to look monolithic so as it turned the corner it needed to look the same, hopefully you can see this better in later pictures.

Two boards down, one more to go, on the front face at least!

It looks really good so far! I am really happy with how the trim board is coming together!

There is a wasp nest up there! Be careful! I like the clean edge, If I had to do it over again I think I would have gone with 2x12s rather than 2x10s, I still like it tho!

This was SO scary for me, James is hanging off the edge of the roof using a skill saw, it's about a 14 foot fall should things go awry! Be careful!

We used the angle measure tool to figure out the angle exactly and chopped up the end pieces.

Working on the other end.

And it all looks good!

Not to shabby if I say so myself. Once we got the horizontal and slanty parts in place we did the vertical ones.

Dday two of the productive weekend brings lots of good progress too! Go Vandals 😉

I started to get the roofing splines in place. I am caulking the backside of some 2x4s and screwing them on the roof, over the TPO seams. These splines will have eye-hooks screwed into them to hold cables/twine for a trellis for the ivy or whatever other plants I decide I want to grow up the wall and over the roof.

James was also nice enough to come out and help once again on the roof... He put up this flashing on the front and sides, I will be painting so you won't see the silver.

Vertical Splines 1 and 2 are on

All the vertical are on, this was as much as I could get myself to do... I went up on the roof for a second but scared myself... The dirt that has accumulated up there is pretty slick too!

After I did the verticals I went along the bottom to finish off the bottom edge. I ripped the boards at a 45 degree angle since all the rain will be running over them.

This is sorta what they look like, this one isnt screwed in yet but it holds down the TPO (I'm not sure I trust the roofing glue I used all the way, I felt better securing all the edges. I think this should work well.

Getting ready to do the uppers

James came to the rescue, he did all the heavy lifting that needed done from the roof... I helped how I could but his skills are very much appreciated! I have never had a fear of heights... I wonder if it will go away...

It's starting to look cool!

Ok, I did get on the roof for another second too... Scary!

It was kind of tight around the vent boot! We got it though!

I think it looks SICK! I love it. Originally I had planned to paint these splines white to blend in with the roof but I like how you can see them, it looks like some cool sort of structure... I am considering painting them black to match the trim, thoughts?

So all the trim sticks up the depth of a 2x4 so that I can screw these eye-hooks in to the sides and string up some twine/rope/cable to make the trellis system. I tested out on this little area and have a few different patterns i was going to throw out for some input... Pictures to follow. I was going to be screwing these all in by hand but check out the awesome time saving bit that James made me to save time. James is always to the rescue!

Option 1: All one string, it will zig-zag back and forth. This one takes the most amount of string of all the options.

Option 2: Sorta a zig-zag too, I like the horizantality of this one but the spuratic vertical lines sorta bug me, I think this would be the easies option I think though

Option 3: This is purely just tied off horizontal strings. I think this is a good design because each string is self supporting, with the other two if it snaps at some point it all comes down... However, I can't find a good way to tie this knot yet that makes it not look 'crappy'. Ideas?

Thanks James!

Just as a note... Christmas is coming! (I have an irrational adoration for the holiday season) I went to Lowe's and this is what I saw, I smiled.