Redneck Staging

[Lloyd_E]

I borrow a phrase from my southern friends... It's been a busy summer - haven't posted much on here. So the last minute(before our rain and cold season) I decide to paint the house, rebuilt the decks and do a little carpentry work before we depart for a cruise.

Attached are a few pics - along with the tractor use one to qualify. I know I will get remarks from some... but a man has to do what a man has to do.

Sorry the images don't flow in order.

 

[GPintheMitten]

Looks good. Nice improvement. Enjoy your cruise.

 

[SPIKER]

I a little carpentry work before we depart for a cruise.

Hey the TBM criminals know where to go shopping while ya are away hahaha J/K customs is cracking down on carrying used stuff over the boarder

 

[Steave]

Attached are a few pics - along with the tractor use one to qualify. I know I will get remarks from some... but a man has to do what a man has to do.

That's standard procedure around here.:thumbsup:

 

[dave1949]

A man does what a mans gotta do :laughing:

I have put a 28' ladder on top of two flights of actual staging, which were sitting on a deck, so you beat me there.

Looks nice, the pergola too. Enjoy the cruise.

 

[smalltown]

Yes you have been busy. The new color looks real nice. It really brightens up you home!

 

[Bob77064]

Looks great.

 

[Lloyd_E]

Thanks all. The house is almost 200 years old. We bought it 20 years ago and started restoring it. We painted it red - a period and local historic colour. I knew it would fade but we have re-stained it 5 times in 20 years with oil base over new clapboards and shakes. I hand planed a water bead in the clapboard on the front - authenticity - with a wooden period plane... I was younger then!!! Upon our return from Williamsburg a few years ago after a bit of a consult with their in-house architect we (she) decided on the colour - Williamsburg Coffee House Gold. Hopefully it will not fade as fast. The work we did 20 years ago is standing up. I still need to build wood rain gutters and down spots, forge some hardware to support and make some hardware for a gate and landscape etc. We have folks staying in the home so no fear of TBN criminals... but if you want to come I can leave a list of work to be accomplished before you take everything - but we may be back home before you finish unless you are efficient and up to my standards! lol...

Dave - I believe you trump me!

PS: probably a thread somewhere!! But we are thinking of all of you suffering from Hurricane Sandy. Sandy missed us but we have suffered a few over the last decade and century. I checked in with our friends in VA and they are fine with a little water damage. Stay safe - better days ahead. PPS: The tall-ship Bounty that sank off of NC was built 7 miles from me in a local shipyard... we are all mourning the lose... RIP for those that go down to the sea...

 

[forgeblast]

Looks great! Love the color too. If you look in the fox fire books I think there is one that shows wooden gutters. Real nice job!

 

[nctacoma]

That is a great looking house. They don't build them like they used to and I wish they would. Older houses just look like they belong in their environment.

 

[Mousefield]

Nice pics of your work as it progressed.
The yellow should not fade like the darker red you had it before, think of the money and time you will save by not having to paint/stain every few years. :thumbsup:

 

[bullbreaker]

Looks great ! Thanks for sharering pic's and story. I like everything I saw except your cordless drill in pic #3 .



Boone

 

[Lloyd_E]

nc,

You right about that - well built homes. This is a timber frame house... because thatst all they could do back than. The sills are 10"x10", with a few beams at 12"x12". All of the other posts and beams are 6"x6" and 8"x8". The roof and walls are boarded in with 1 1/8" hemlock some as wide as 26" and 12', 14' long. It didn't take long to put a house together back than - gangs of speciality workers. This house was once part of a 50 acre farm that started out as a 100 acre farm.

bullbreaker... that's my drill, a cheap one but mine. When they come on sale - usually 60% off - I grab them. They are great for doing small stuff. The 18v dewalt is the best unit yet. I have a few 18v B&D that are almost identical to dewalt but subtle enough in battery design that they are not interchangeable.

 

[creekbend]

Enjoyed the pictures. Thanks for posting.

 

[Lloyd_E]

Lots of tweaking to do and more detail stuff. I think I missed the painting season. Getting cold up here.

The picket/rail style will continue along the back under the pergola. The paint behind the chair is a kiwi and when summer comes it will grow over the entire structure similar to grapevines. Also behind the table will be a wood screen for privacy and wind protection - there will be a number of these throughout the structure. There will be granite rocks and hosta(sp?) plants to finish off and hide the sub-structure business.

Lloyd

 

[Lloyd_E]

Local views of the neighbourhood...

 

[forgeblast]

Wow what a piece of heaven. congrats on living in such a great area.
The way you have the pergola attached to the house is very interesting. Its looks like its a free standing design but also attached to the house. Can you descibe how you did that? maby post a picture of what you used to attach them to the house. My reason for asking is my wife reall loves how you did that and has been after me for a while to think of a way to put a pergola on the back of our house.

 

[Lloyd_E]

fb,

I will show details of how the pergola is attached... but I am going to redesign and change them. They look too cumbersome for the design - a tad(big tad) overbuilt! Essentially I just made a "T" that attached to both sides of the 4"x4" post and to the house. The stem "I" was on either side of the post and the "-" top part(horizontal line of the top of the "T") attached to the house. Keep in mind this house is 200+ plus years old and it is not straight, square or level - which I reconfirmed with this job. The wall that the pergola is against bows out about 6". When I gutted the place there was a steel 1' rod and turnbuckle that held the house together. At some point(1930ish) or earlier somebody cut the rod, causing the bow, and buried it in the house structure.

I am now thinking they could be "L" shaped or a lot smaller but still a T. I used decking to build them - 1.25"x5.5".

 

[forgeblast]

Thanks Lloyd I appreciate it.

 

[texasjohn]

Man, if that's what you do now, I'd like to see what you did when you were "younger!" Great job!