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11月27日 Update...sorry its late...no its not finished.Ok....
So I went to Menards right after I posted that last entry and ordered the siding. Thing is...you can't buy just seven pieces; you have to buy it by the square. A square is the equivelant (for non-builders) to 100 square feet. Each piece of siding is 12 feet long and approximately 9 inches high or roughly 9 square feet. This means that it takes 11 point something pieces of siding to equal a square. End result = "you need to purchase 12 pieces." I only need 5, maybe 6. Sigh. It should be here the first week of December...can anyone say SNOW?
On the up side, the city inspector came and gave it a thumbs up. Everything looked great. He is very concerned about the electrical and can't seem to remind me enough that it will require the proper permit for proceeding. Grrrrrrr. The code enforcement officer provided another extension. I mailed her copies of the receipt of order for the siding and photos of the progress to date. She didn't request it; but I am trying to be proactive.
I think that I might pull one piece of siding off the shed and cut the piece for the peak from that. At least that way the entire face will be from the same stock color lot. I still need to get the stop moulding for the garage door and figure out how I am going to fabricate the shed doors. (I have some ideas but really no extra cash right now to proceed.) A friend of a friend stopped by (an electrician) and looked at the electrical side of things; he said the same thing I did...you can never have too many outlets or lights. So I can start planning for that this spring I guess. Over all the project seems to have progressed well.
Now the big effort will be to get the stuff out of storage before the next rent payment comes due.
Have a great day! 11月17日 Five Flippin' Pieces....OK...so we are down to crunch time. I have to have the garage completed by November 26, 2008. Between the weather and the other emotional obstacles, I had made little to no progress over the last couple of weeks. On Saturday, Andy and I went out and put up the facia trim, the last two pieces on the east wall, and redid the shed front (I didn't like how it looked). On Sunday, I went out and got started on the garage face. Jay helped once I got to the part where I was using full lengths of siding.
Herein lies the issue...we are short five (possibly six) pieces of siding. This includes the very top piece at the peak on the front. Go figure. I expected that I would be alittle short, figured that I would need at least enough to do the two peaks on the attached shed. (Which I do still need to do, in addition to the final piece on the back shed wall.) Either way...I will be ordering seven (7) pieces to make sure that I don't run out again. Hopefully the color lot is close enough that you can't tell. If I am lucky it might even be from the same run.
Next problem is inpections...I have calls into both the city building inspector for the permit and the code enforcement officer. I am praying that they can inspect and pass the project as is (maybe even with a receipt for the ordered siding) and I can wrap it all up. I really am tired of all the fighting.
Here are pictures of the total process to date:
Have a great day and wish me luck!
11月3日 Quick entryHad a very busy and productive past few days (despite the interuption with Halloween). We were too busy to take pictures but I will put some up very soon. I believe they call this the light at the end of the tunnel!
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