Garage Plans
For whatever reason I can't get my act together and photograph the projects that we have been working on, but I do have some photos of the big project that is looming this summer: The Garage.
We knew when we purchased the house that the roof on the garage needed to be replaced along with the gutter (why they didn't do this simple project a few years ago when they did the roof on the house is beyond us -- and our neighbor that J has discussed it with). The gutter, which you cannot see on the other side of the garage, is also falling apart and hanging on by a thread. (No, our garage stucco is not two different colors -- what you can't see "off stage" to the left is the sprinkle that is watering our garden and half the garage in the process). This has always been on the list as a project for this summer. My dad has offered to fly out and help us with it, but due to scheduling conflicts this actually won't happen until September, as the only other option was July and none of us wanted to re-roof a garage that gets no shade cover in the middle of the summer.
The other part of the garage which needs serious attention is the trim. A majority of the trim around the roof is rotted and needs to be replaced. The rest of the trim looks like this right now:
With the most attrocious portions being around the garage door, which gets the harsh south sun and no shade cover, and the threshold on the back entrance to the garage -- which has actually completely crumbled and fallen apart in the last month:
Part of the reason for the sorry shape of the trim is that the previous owner did not prime before she repainted the trim on the garage or the house (nor did she prime any of the trim inside, which has created ANOTHER summer project to be discussed later). However, I can't hate her completely because bad paint job or not, she did cover up the PO-once-removed's Pepto Pink trim:
I would rather look at the peeling blue trim than that nasty pink any day, so I curse the PO a little more quietly than I would otherwise.
We knew when we purchased the house that the roof on the garage needed to be replaced along with the gutter (why they didn't do this simple project a few years ago when they did the roof on the house is beyond us -- and our neighbor that J has discussed it with). The gutter, which you cannot see on the other side of the garage, is also falling apart and hanging on by a thread. (No, our garage stucco is not two different colors -- what you can't see "off stage" to the left is the sprinkle that is watering our garden and half the garage in the process). This has always been on the list as a project for this summer. My dad has offered to fly out and help us with it, but due to scheduling conflicts this actually won't happen until September, as the only other option was July and none of us wanted to re-roof a garage that gets no shade cover in the middle of the summer.
The other part of the garage which needs serious attention is the trim. A majority of the trim around the roof is rotted and needs to be replaced. The rest of the trim looks like this right now:
With the most attrocious portions being around the garage door, which gets the harsh south sun and no shade cover, and the threshold on the back entrance to the garage -- which has actually completely crumbled and fallen apart in the last month:
Part of the reason for the sorry shape of the trim is that the previous owner did not prime before she repainted the trim on the garage or the house (nor did she prime any of the trim inside, which has created ANOTHER summer project to be discussed later). However, I can't hate her completely because bad paint job or not, she did cover up the PO-once-removed's Pepto Pink trim:
I would rather look at the peeling blue trim than that nasty pink any day, so I curse the PO a little more quietly than I would otherwise.
posted by kk @ 10:09 AM
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