Starting Friday, May 20th Jim and I are both on “vacation”.
Honestly, we will be pulling off a roof and ripping out drywall. If anyone has
any pent-up anxiety and needs a release, message me. I will give you the
address and put a sledgehammer in your hands.
Saturday and Sunday was mostly prep work for the new roof. The
insulation that we are laying beneath the steel roof was to be delivered first
thing Monday morning. We wanted to get a few particular spots painted before the
new roof was on. But, before we could paint we had to scrape. And scrape. And
scrape.
Jim scaled the old ladder and slapped on the paint like a regular Hofmann.
Next Jim climbed up to check out the old roof and decided to
go ahead and remove the chimney. There wasn’t much holding it in place so the
bricks came tumbling down, one after another. Luckily no animals were hurt in
the filming of this episode. The only fatality was a can of bright red paint
that Jill was using next door. The plastic lid of the sample jar was no match
for the weight of a falling brick. Thank goodness we weren’t planning on
keeping that deck.
We managed to salvage about 75% of the bricks and two of the
flues. We had said we wanted an outdoor brick oven on the patio. I guess we
know where the brick will be coming from…
Stay tuned for updates this week.
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