{"id":34,"date":"2007-06-15T10:20:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T18:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2008-04-15T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T23:02:44","slug":"june-15th-we-have-seen-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"June 15th-We have seen the LIGHT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it has been a few days since I updated y’all…but there has been some action around here! <\/p>\n

The windows were delivered on Tuesday June 12th YEAH! Oddly enough 25 windows does not look like as many as I thought it would. I had them put them in the garage (which made me popular with the young pup who had to haul them from the street up to the garage (BUT what do I care??). They had the most ginormous truck that they figured they should not pull up onto the driveway…Not my problem–but given the punks we had in the ‘hood over the weekend that broke into all the cars…I was NOT going to have my windows sitting outside. I am not that interested in tempting fate!<\/p>\n

The guys came on Wednesday to start the tear off of the siding…by the end of the day, some rather unpleasant information became apparent. Our house has suffered the much dreaded impact of the defective LP siding…the plywood (and floor joists on one) are rotting! It is down at the bottom of the chimneys on both sides…For the most part the Celotex (foam like sheet insulation) that is between the siding and the plywood has actually been a savior in terms of keeping the rotten siding from infecting the plywood. BUT the chimneys were not Celotexed…therefore direct contact…Therefore rotten.<\/p>\n

Here are some pictures…So a couple things come to mind as I ponder this situation. One is, thank goodness we decided to reside the whole house…as if we had just gone up to the chimneys (logical break point had we decided to just side the addition), we would not have discovered this and it would have been much much worse. The other is that folks with LP siding (ie my neighbors) really need to look into the condition of their siding to see if they have similar problems. I refuse to believe that we are the most unlucky people on the planet and that we are the only ones with this problem…possible<\/em>, but highly unlikely!\"\"The siding in some places is just crumbling as they remove it…<\/p>\n

This is the East side of the house (street side)–it has the rotted through the joists on this side–nothing that time and money can’t fix though\"\"<\/p>\n

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This is the West side of the house–just need to replace the plywood…it has not gone further than that…<\/p>\n

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Thursday was more stripping (SIDING!)\"\"I did go pick up the hood liner and blower parts from Fredericks warehouse for the ventilation for over the range. I also worked Lowes over for a good price on the dishwasher I wanted…they price match the best deal I find, plus they have a rebate for free delivery and installation, PLUS I was able to use scrips cards that I bought from Rachael’s gym, so I got another 4% back–WAHOO! Aren’t I doing a GREAT job of saving money on this reno–Troy–no comments please if you are reading this!<\/p>\n

So I wake up Friday morning–Today–to pouring rain! Hmmm–we will see what these siding guys are made of today! OK…They are going to do windows they tell me–sounds GREAT! I am excited to have LIGHT…They start in the corner..my favourite corner\"\"<\/p>\n

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This looks so easy–I could do this!!<\/p>\n

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And here is the “sunroom”…<\/p>\n

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All this done by 9:45am and then they were gone…in wait until sunnier (or at least less wet) days.<\/p>\n

Oh Yeah…and the tax assessor came by to “assess” how much “value” we are adding (SIGH)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it has been a few days since I updated y’all…but there has been some action around here! The windows were delivered on Tuesday June 12th YEAH! Oddly enough 25 windows does not look like as many as I thought it would. I had them put them in the garage (which made me popular with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}