Scroungin’

Getting ready for construction season on the Lair, and I’m intimidated by the imperative that certain tasks must and will be performed in a certain order, or all hell will ensue.

I was finally forced to sit down and actually organize those tasks on paper, and it occurred to me that the materials I need for accomplishing them are scattered all the hell over the place, squirreled away here and there. So I figured this morning’s task would be to get them all where they need to be, rather than where they are.

Friday I’m going to the big town about fifty miles away, and hope to return with enough materials that I can start tearing out the south side of the lair, and also put up the railing for the balcony/fire escape. So I need the little upstairs door. This is gonna be darned peculiar-looking, before it’s done…

The Lair’s going to have two doors, one right on top of the other, for no immediately apparent reason. 🙂 You see that lighter spot on the OSB over the door? That’s where there’s no insulation or interior siding, and so the OSB weathered differently. All I have to do is cut that out, and I can install the small pre-hung door that’s been stashed in the barn for years’n’years, waiting for its moment.

The Secret Lair Siding Bleg is officially over now. Thanks very much to everyone who kicked in. We didn’t get everything we needed for a Cadillac job, but then the Lair isn’t really a Cadillac sort of place. We did get everything we need, and that’s the way these things normally work out. The Lair will be a far more comfortable place to live come Monsoon and winter, and I’m obliged to you for your help.

BTW, private to S: My lovely and talented assistant, who’s going to help me with the exterior siding, very politely invited me to go straight to hell when I suggested that stripping the Lair to the studs and replacing all the insulation and OSB might be part of the task. So, I appreciate the thought but no thanks. Not even going to contemplate trying to do it by myself.