The Porch........

.....that I thought I could get done on my one week vacation. Ha! Who was I fooling? Me I guess. I thought I could strip the paint, sand and paint and voila it would be done. After all it is not very big.

So I tore off the vinyl siding. And stripped and stripped some more. Some paint came off in strips other parts I tore off all the skin off my knuckles trying to get the paint off. I am using a heat gun but I am really wishing I had a Silent Paint Remover. I started at the bottom and thought I would work my way to the top and that way Clarke could set up scaffolding for me to reach the top. I am regretting that decision now becasue after 3 days of stripping and get ready for Clarke to come fix up a couple of boards only to discover that the insides and both posts were rotten at the bottom. That threw my timeline right out the window!

Almost everything I stripped is now torn out on the lawn. Hear me grieve?

On a more positive note I think it is going to look much better open. We decided not to put the half walls back in.

I have to decide what kind of railings to use. But before I do....Clarke check out those boards do they need to be replaced because I ain't strippin' them if they do.....

Sure enough all around needed new boards. That cut down on the stripping but it still seems like an endless task.

Suddenly this porch is very large!

OOOOHHHHH my aching arms.

Nancy