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| Rear view of the house with old siding and new addition floor decking |
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| Siding removed, exposed old sheathing-to be removed! |
This house was built in 1941. It withstood the terrible hurricane season of 1962 which was devastating to the Jersey shore communities, but the 70 year old sheathing under the existing siding on the house doesn't meet new hurricane standards. So, now the house will be taken down to the framing on the outside also.All the black board sheathing has to come off and be replaced by 5/8th plywood. Why can't the plywood just go over the existing Johns Manville black board? Well it could have, if it was known when we ordered our windows in July. As it turns out the windows which are made to order were ordered for the wall depth with the existing sheathing and putting plywood over the existing sheathing will result in custom windows that don't fit. Now the workers have something to do while we are waiting for the borough building officials to approve what was done to date. We can't proceed without an inspection and while it was requested on Thursday of last week, the inspectors are not full time employees and we have to wait until today. I hope they inspect on windy cloudy days.( I wouldn't be surpised to find they only work on sunny days.)
At this point our neighbors may be thinking we are going to have a bluestone lawn.
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| Front lawn of our dream home |
The stone for filling in the basement was delivered yesterday and the labor intensive job of getting it from the lawn to the basement was begun. The mason was expecting to use a conveyor system to move it but the only available machine was rented several days ago to another contractor for 30 days so bucket loads of stone are dropped on the sluice in the basement window and moved around the basement by manual labor .
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| Bucket loader for basement fill |
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| Basement- all this stone has to be compacted |
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| Our own mining sluice |
So after a week that started 2 days late due to the previous week's rain, the visible signs of progress are a new front stoop almost completed, and the new addition floor decking. Oh, and of course the disaster looking yard.
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| Floor decking for new addition |
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| New entrance stoop |
Thankfully, I had some flights to Chicago and Maine and some and family activities during this past week days to keep me from going postal. My sister Dorothy visited for a few days from Albuquerque, NM to go to her 50th high school reunion held at a classmate's house in Spring Lake
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Holy Trinity class of '62
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| Dorothy and me |
1 comment:
New stoop looks lovely. Will there be railings? Can't turn off the "fall prevention" thinking.
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