Paul on a bike, except when I'm working on the new house...

TOmorrow I turn 50, urk, but today, got a whole lot done, cleaned up after cutting the old kitchen flooring into 54" pieces to put onto the bathroom wall as wainscoting, I only needed about 60 pieces, I think I have about 70.  Nasty work was using a wire brush to clean the tongue an groove on each piece, still need to run it all through the planer for a clean surface to apply stain/sealer. Installed a solar powered fan for the bathroom, so it should suck all day long. Yes that little hole is for the fan, still need to finish the 'box' under this thing, then install the vent cover.  Need to install it flush with where the metal I'll put in the ceiling and insulation, so it will have to extend down a little. THen I bought the durrock for the bathroom floor, and insulation for the ceiling. And as I was drinking my morning tea I noticed how one of the front yard lizards was using the post the mailbox is on for shade and as a hunting perch....so cute.  THis one

But, it wasn't, cut, re-measure, cut it shorter, cut this, adjust that, square that, again! However, it's tighter than the kitchen window, sealed, and screwed. I really like the 'low-e' glass, I could really tell the difference when the window was in place, it lets the light in, but it will I hope keep the cooling bills low.  Nice and solid, with only a few minutes of screaming at the bad measurements... Another piece of hardi-backer siding below should finish the trim, and I didn't want to waste good siding on a window on the back of the house.

I sure picked the toughest one to install, the kitchen window was skinnier and taller than the one I picked to replace it.  I had to install floor to ceiling studs, jack studs, replace the sill plate, and rob some siding off that playhouse to plug up the hole below the window. Still have to do the header and side trim, but I need cement board for that.  This is where we are today, siding in place, just bought some finish screws to afix the siding.  Had to wait until dark to take a pic of the window and get the flash to work.  This is where I was yesterday. See Dwain, the window opens and closes, unlike the other windows I have, which if I opened them, they would probably fall apart.