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If it were me I would take the bad window out and use clapboards to cover the hole still making it look like a repair. Just a thought. .......Carl..........
i braced the corners on all three walls.
there's no telling when my rock star son is gonna get to making my signs, so i asked a friend's wife who was a marketing manager for baxter labs until she retired from full time and transitioned to work-at-home part-time), if she would do them for me and she said she would and i asked her just in time because friday she has to send her computers back to baxter and they own the software. she's also gonna send me copies of the signs in mirror images so i can give terry's technique a try on an experimental "wall".
Terry
i also hit the stairway with some silverwood.
that's good to know. that leads me to thinking about building a sign and transferring the graphic on to it. but i don't know if i want to go through all that. i might just print em and stick em on the walls...
Rick
i had cut out the front and rear gables on the "north-south" roof weeks ago and decided to side them over the weekend, so i did. then i measured and cut some sticks forming the roof, and glued the two gable walls to it. then i set it on top of the model to see how it looked, and it looked wierd, so i double checked the dimensions and of course, i blew it. i made the gables too small, so yesterday i remeasured and cut them and the window opening out and grained and stained more than enough boards to side them. tonight i'll damp brush and start siding the gables. one step forward......
gotta keep remembering the golden rule. measure twice cut once.
should be getting the signage today so i'll be able to glue all the walls together later today (after the window crew leaves and i get everything in the house back together)
Rick
thanks guys. appreciate you looking.
finished recutting and siding the gables:
i'm also pondering the possibility of replacing the three posts on the left side of the balcony. because of the lack of specs of any kind on the drawings, i wasn't able to tell exactly where the posts ended and assumed (incorrectly) that the posts were all the same length. it won't be difficult but it will be a pita. i'm still waiting on the signs, so maybe i'll do that tonight. i already replaced the corner posts on the right end wall will posts the correct height for the bottom of the roof.
ken, i havent settled on a roof treatment yet; i really like the look of gray, dingy shake shingles, but tar paper would be a helluva lot easier....
bad photo because its sitting on top of a glass topped coffee table and some of the stuff on the shelf under the glass is visible, but you get the gist.
Rick
i'm trying to find a suitable sub base for the roofs. do you think the cardboard backing from legal pads of paper would work, or is it too thin? if it's too thin, what do you recommend and where can i get it?
Several years ago I bought a very thin but stiff product called "tag board" and have successfully used it as the stiff core for structure roofs. I think I got it at Michaels. You can Google "tagboard" and read a bit about it but in the end you might want to don a mask and gloves and go out to a store like Michaels to see what products they have available. In the end, it's a touchy feely sort of product.
Later, Dave S Tucson, AZ
Here is another thought. Pull out a "file folder" and see if that would fit your needs for thickness, size, etc and do a test to see if it fits your situation.
Later, Dave S. Tucson, AZ