17 August 2018

Ty and Doug here before 7, per usual.  They soon had the people door (as opposed to the overhead door) installed.  I dug out the Kwikset^® door handles and double dead-bolt lockset bought ages ago for that door only to discover (after I had destroyed the blister pack packaging in which they were housed) that the dead bolts were not the Smart Key^® variety that allows yours truly to re-key the tumblers instead of having to call a locksmith to have that done.  Grumble, bitch, moan!!!!  Meanwhile, the two geese moved on to putting in the five Anderson 400-series C14 windows.  They had the first one 75% installed when I noticed it was opening in the wrong direction.  Seems some homeowner had forgotten to tell Ty and Doug that there were three left-hand opening and two right-hand opening windows, so Murphy’s Law in action, they had just grabbed the top box (by happenstance a right-hand window) and put it in where a left-hand window was intended.  Double grumble, bitch, moan!!!!  And, of course, when those windows get nailed in Anderson intends for them to be there for eternity, i.e., getting them back out again without destroying the flange is a major challenge.  Luckily this weren’t the first rodeo for the two geese!  Late morning the Goodro’s truck arrived with $2,200 worth of Koma^® PVC trim and ½″ MDO (medium density oriented strand board) for the barn.  Expensive, yes, but well worth the cost because that trim will never rot and the Koma and MDO hold onto paint like forever.  Just before lunch, as it was starting to rain, Doug gave the cupola roof a shave around the edges.  The guys also ripped the MDO into 22¼″ x 96″ strips that will become the barn soffits.  After lunch, we ripped a bevel the length of a bunch of the Koma^®, thus creating the fascia and feature strip boards.  By 1:30 we had sorted out tools, loaded much of the Goose Creek variety into Ty’s and Doug’s trucks, and the two geese flew off into the sunset… just as Perry arrived to check on progress and schedule a time for us to build the staircase up to the barn loft area.  He also made an excellent suggestion about how to harmoniously transition the cedar shingles on the west wall to meet those on the north wall.