I had intended to leave the holes for the addition’s windows sealed up until I was ready to wrap tarpaper and mount the windows, because Monsoon is Coming – pretty much any minute now. But last night was really quite uncomfortable due (of course) to something I had completely overlooked: It got really hot in the afternoon and cooled off fairly well outside after sundown but not at all in the Lair: I had effectively bricked up my most breezy window. There was nothing to do but sit and sweat until almost eleven and it was still almost 90 when I finally laid down.
I commiserated with myself over that until this morning’s first coffee kicked in and it finally occurred to me: They’re my window holes and I can do whatever I want with them. Also, I own a reciprocating saw.
Yeah, I’ll do a much neater and more painstaking job of opening up the window holes when it’s time to mount the windows. But until then, I love this saw.
Ha! Ha!
I see you told that saw blade to get bent!
}:-]
I had assumed you would simply move the existing window to the new window opening and have done with it up front, but I guess you’d had quite enough carpentry for yesterday. Don’t blame you.
Because of bugs, rodents and Little Bear, I can’t open up the passage between the main cabin and the addition until I can close off the addition. which right now is open to the world except for a tarp across the doorway. I’m a little stuck till I get the door and the third window. So that window needs to stay where it is till next week sometime.
Ah . . . gotcha.
I wonder if, when time (and budget) permit, some sort of roof-mounted heat vent might be worthwhile. As a kid (very much pre-AC) I remember the breeze-driven rooftop “spinning vane” vents that seemed to help some.