I’m so bummed. I’m living in a construction zone that hasn’t moved forward in two days, and likely won’t move much today. Saturday after having gotten so much done I pulled up lame, having pretty much scoured the end of my stump, and I’m not getting over it very quickly. Also the weather is still really iffy for June: Every time I pick up a tool it starts to rain. June is the most dependably dry month, except this year it isn’t.
I’m getting a little done around the edges but there’s no major progress to report, and it’s starting to disgust me. I will show you this morning’s sadly almost-triumphant failure, though…
In the whole place, there’s a single window wholly encompassed by a single sheet of siding. While tremulously balancing on the shaky scaffold, moving in slow motion since I tend to go all to pieces where there’s nobody about to act brave for, I carefully measured every dimension I needed to make a perfectly window-shaped hole in a sheet. Then I cut the sheet and got it up there by myself. I figured it would either snap in like a Lego block or be off by a mile and ruin an expensive sheet. If it worked, the last two sheets on that side of the cabin would go quick and easy. They’re small, light and relatively low.
Instead it did the third thing: It’s off by maybe 1/4 inch: Just enough not to work, not enough to see from below that it won’t work, and now I’ve got to take out all those screws and lower it down without ruining it. I think I’ll leave it up there until tomorrow when D returns, just as a trophy to my own hubris.
Why do you have to take it down? Isn’t there some way to use calking or something to fill that 1/4″ gap? I realize that I know less than nothing about construction… just wonder if the perfect has not become the enemy of the good.
I could, except it’s 1/4″ in the wrong direction. The hole doesn’t quite coincide with the window frame and needs to be cut a bit bigger.
Ah!! A big difference. LOL I don’t know why I assumed the hole was too large.
In that case… I guess there is no alternative. Darn it. But I’m glad you’ll have help tomorrow.
I can’t begin to count the number pieces of sheet rock I’ve ruined the same way. Sometimes the gremlins get hold of a job and there’s practicaly no hope. One truism- the more awkward the location, the more likely the error.
Just cut the hole bigger. No need to use another sheet.
Why is the plywood going on top of the tar paper? Maybe you said why and I missed it.
Chill Joel. It’s a project, not a race. Don’t hurt yourself.
Maybe you don’t need to take the sheet off.
Do you own, or can you borrow, a Dremel rotary tool ? The grinder bits are very small. If you don’t care too much about aesthetics, you can just sand down or grind off 1/4 inch or so.