Monday, October 28, 2013

Repair and Paint Siding



We built a movable platform, then I prepped, caulked and painted the siding. Being taller than I am, Ray painted the last bit. This took all about 9 hours.   


Sunday, October 13, 2013

Pressure Washing

 
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About 100 feet of sidewalk and the steps took about 6 hours.    

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Roof Gutter Repair

  On the left is how it looks after repair. Click the picture.

Here's how it looked before.    
 Here the repair with a bracket inside.

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Monday, September 23, 2013

Plumbing Repair

Did some tub and shower plumbing repair, which called for some creative solutions. 

See the pictures and details here.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Install Baseboard

The project was to install 248-feet of Trex as baseboard, to cover and prevent rain damage around the inside of the deck wall. 

Thirty-nine boards required 23.5 hours, including replacing items which had been removed from the deck, putting away extension cords, cleaning up the cutting area, etc.

  



  

After trying a nail gun, we used deck screws, pre-drilling and counter-sinking.



Used 16-foot stock.


 We used a scrub brush and plain water to clean each piece, selecting first which  stock to use.


Some of the walls were warped, but came together nicely with the Trex.

Every hole drilled produced shavings, which we contained, in order to minimize cleanup.






Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Deck Repair and Re-coating

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Dimensions: 80-feet length, 45-feet width, the front deck is 6-feet wide, side deck is 4-feet wide, back deck is 15-feet. The left side of this drawing omits a large area, about 12-feet wide with another stairway. 



The project is to replace some boards, screw down some loose ones, sand as needed, use a prep solution and wash, then coat with Behr Deck Over. This product has a consistency of peanut butter on the paint roller. It really fills and seals the wood. We used three 5-gallon buckets of Deck Over.

Coating a 12-foot by 12-foot area, from the house to the bench under the grape arbor, took about two-and-a-half hours, in hot, 80-degree sun. It was necessary to paint small areas and back brush quickly, before the coating skinned over.

Phase two will be to install baseboard inside the deck wall, about 250 feet of Trex.

For more pictures, visit the link Deck Coating & Baseboard, under Pages on the right.






Cut treated wood, then treat the ends.




There is a 6-foot by 8-foot theatrical stage on the back deck, which we moved aside, coated under and replaced, then painted the deck around it.


We added some drainage holes to the deck, one in front near the garden hoses. There's a built -in bench under a grape arbor. We put the wrought iron table on the bench and drilled drainage holes under the bench, too. Coating under the bench with eight legs took about half-an-hour. 


Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Apartment Refurbishing, West Seattle

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This is a two-storey unit where we did the usual cleaning and painting as well as repairing a drywall ceiling that had leaked, replacing a threshold that had water damage, and replacing the stairway to the roof deck. We used aluminum paint on three roof decks. The owner is a contractor who did most of the skilled work. I supervised another employee. The work extended over three weeks as we also tended to other rental maintenance tasks.

Here is a reference from the owner, who is my current part-time employer.