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Stilldrillin:
Wes.
You've been busy. You're excused! :thumbup:

Hope, Herself is soon back to full health.

David D

Pete49:
Wes, sorry to hear about your wifes illness but glad your ok and she is improving. Too many people seem to disappear and no one tends to notice but its nice when they come back to let us all know you are ok and things just got busy. I just tend to get a little worried as the world is getting more dangerous all the time.
Pete

Powder Keg:
Thanks again for checking in on me:o)

A couple months ago we added a new metal roof to my house. It was a very big job! The roof is steep and everyone up there needed to be tied off to stay up there. That added a lot of work to the whole project. I didn't get any pictures of that because I was just busy. I had several very good friends come over and help me out. It took us a couple weekends to finish up the hard stuff.

Shortly after that the big window in my living room broke. I have a friend that runs a glass shop and asked him to keep an eye out for a couple windows. My wife wanted a bay window. A couple days later he called me up. They were re-windowing a house? And he had pulled three that would work for me. A buddy of mine and I framed up the bay window and a couple more friends came over and we lifted it into place.

We installed the new windows and sheeted the outside.

We cut out the siding on the house and installed rafters.

We were able to sheet it and nail down some Tar paper. At this point I had to wait a couple weeks. We ordered some Tin to match the Hawaiian Blue on the roof.

In the mean time I rented a siding brake and we made siding for the window. All the white is aluminum flashing bent to fit.

We did the fascia while we were at it. Here is a shot part way finished.

Here it is with the roof tin screwed down. It turned out pretty nice:o)

I'll post a couple other projects soon:o)

~Wes~

Powder Keg:
This weekend I had the seamless gutter guy come over. He rolled out a 15' 4" gutter and crimped on some metal ends. He also drilled it for the down spout. The next day a buddy of mine helped me put it up. No more drips in front of the front door\o/

They have a neat hidden hanger system that looks like it should work out pretty good. It seems really strong.

This replaced the vinyl gutters that fell off a couple years back. Grrrrr. I like it a lot better!!!

I have an idea for the down spout. Stay tuned:o)

~Wes~

Powder Keg:
On the inside of the house the bathroom ceiling was in very bad shape!!! I was too embarrassed to even take pictures of it. Searching the internet for inspiration I ran across this ceiling that I wanted to try out.

I found some bead board and my wife and I glued/stapled it to the old ceiling. After we had scraped all the old loose paint and junk falling off it. We then made some extra wide molding to fit around the edges. This was quite a job. Non of the hard work can be seen as it's all underneath.

We primed the ceiling. Then we decided to add a little more molding. I cut out the pieces and ran them through my pouter table. it worked out pretty good.

We want to redo the tub area. But we haven't decided what to do there yet. We ar leaning towards tile. To keep from having problems there later. I swooped the molding up into the celing. I thought this was a neat way to end it in the middle:o)

Now we can tile the tub area later. There will be a short transition area between the tile and the molding I made. We then painted it. It's not quite this bright. The digital camera was acting p.

We are very happy with how things turned out:o)

~Wes~

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