Turns out the end of days wasn't on 12/21/12, so per societal norm we're moving full steam ahead into 2013.
A few days after Christmas, Jonathan's family came into town and we bowled, hiked, game-nighted, and living-room-furniture-rearranged our way through the new year.
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Once our casa returned to Jonathan, myself and our furry/aquatic companions we got back to business on our latest home project, the re-siding of the attached shed.
Probably about a month back Jonathan
tore off the nasty siding from the shed in preparation for new and
improved corrugated metal siding. Unfortunately the old exterior of nasty siding and rotten wood is still hanging out in our back yard awaiting its eventual
trip to the dump. Just before Christmas we started the remodel by re-surfacing the shed with
thick sheets of OSB, which turned out to be quite the nailing adventure.
Thanks to the near impenetrability of the OSB, many a nail was bent
beyond recognition before having to be removed and re-attempted.
This past weekend, we applied the asphalt paper to the OSB before mounting the metal siding. The paper install was pretty easy peasy, and the metal cutting/mounting moved right along as well. Sunday happened to be the day I was looking forward to watching the Ravens v. Colts wildcard game, but since I wanted to help with the shed project, I opted for a good ole fashion radio broadcast. I was impressed with the richness of the announcing and cheered and of course jeered at the radio between staples, measuring, and metal cutting. I'm happy to say, both the game, and the siding, turned out quite well.
We are quite happy with the look of the metal, but are not yet done with the project. The next and final step is to apply a boarder of painted 1x4s at the corners, and top of the siding. I don't think my attempt at an explanation will serve much good, so I'll leave it to the photos when we get to that step.
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