Adding Old Clapboards - East Kitchen Wall

Progress
July 2005
Aug 2005
Nov 2005
Jan 2006
Feb 2006
May 2006
July 2006
Aug 2006
Oct 2006
Demolition
Back Porch
Pecan Tree
Kitchen 1
Kitchen 2
Kitchen 3
Footer/Foundation
Dig Footers
Build Foundation
Filling an Antique Septic Tank
Piers
Framing
Floor Joists
Framing Day 1
Framing Day 2
Framing Day 3
Framing Day 4
New windows
Wiring
Plumbing
Sewer Line
Water Line
Painting
West Wall
East Wall
South Wall-West Gable
Front Door
New East Wall
New West Wall
New North Wall
Last New Wall
Front Porch
Repairs


The last clapboard wall we installed. While Jim waited for Elizabeth to finish painting the north wall, he decided to work on this plain wall.


Sorting through the dwindling stack of old clapboards.


We did a calculation to make the best use of the few long clapboards in the stack. Three rows of short clapboards were installed between each full-length clapboard. Care was taken to keep the joints from stacking one above another.


Not only was the number of good clapboards limited, so where the number of scaffolding sections. As Elizabeth finished second coats of the latex paint, the upper scaffolding sections were moved to the side where Jim was working.

The last wall of clapboards we put up, primed and ready for some yellow paint.

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