Yesterday we attached the fascia boards and today we completed the last of the roof and wall flashing details in preparation for attaching the porch roof, hopefully tomorrow.The biggest challenge of this whole build is something I don’t talk about much on social media, and that is that we’re doing it while I’m simultaneously...
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Setting the porch roof hardware
Slowly making progress towards getting the porch roof up. After months of careful planning we finally test fitted the fascia boards. This is a bit of a hold your breath moment because over a month ago we had to cut the roof sheeting overhang exactly to fit all of the various layers of rain...
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Prepping the porch roof parts
I’m pretty sure that both running concrete encrusted boards through a thickness planer, and pushing old growth Douglas Fir beams through a glorified contractor table saw violates international conventions prohibiting the torture of power tools. I am happy to report, however, that my ‘barely a Powermatic’ table saw endured the strain, and surprisingly my...
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