Lance agreed to come by at 10:00 today. I'm pretty tired and didn't want a full day.
My original plan was to get the door and kitchen windows in. The kitchen window frames aren't lined up properly so it will take 2 people to get them all lined up. And, french doors are definitely a 2 person job.
However.....................
Not having the side of the house completely sheathed was bugging me so I decided to finish that up. Took quite a while but I got it. At least around the electrical panel.
The deck issue was bugging me as well. When they raised the house the deck came with it. The joists sit on beams only they aren't sitting on the beams anymore. Lance and I brainstormed for quite a while and I finally decided to just shim them up to take the load off of the lag bolts holding it all up.
There are some other wood rot issues back there. One of the 2x6s at the bottom, in a perfect world, would need to be replaced. However, there are 2 parallel 2x6s less than a foot away providing plenty of support and the siding will just cover up the outside one. There's really some more rot as well but the only possible way to get to it is to remove the deck and I just don't want to do that. If the back of the house crumbles, then it crumbles I guess.
Anyways, here is Lance shimming.
Then we sorta decided that we might as well put up the tyvek before we put the french doors and kitchen windows in. The windows in the pic were already in so we just cut the tyvek around them. Not really the way to do it but no harm done because I'll be sealing them with tape. Here's that part of the house. Don't you love my wrinkly tyvek job?
So, by the time we got to what I had wanted to do in the first place it was about 2:00.
We put the french doors in and it just wasn't right. We tried about a million things and they just wouldn't close properly. It was so confusing because everything we tried that make sense from a squaring standpoint didn't work. Howe frustrating. We spent probably 2 hours on them before we finally figured out the frame on the bottom was crowned. Once we shimmed up the corners from the bottom, it was gravy.
The windows were pretty easy but at the end of the day when you are tired they seemed not easy. We got two in but the third was too high even sitting on the sill so we had to start there, and raise (unscrew and screw back in) the other 2. Geez.
But, the back of the house is looking pretty good. Check out my french doors! Ain't they purty?
Since the house has been open for the better part of 2 days, all of the neighborhood mosquitos have taken the opportunity to move in.