This was really fun. This wonderful house, a great old Victorian set back far from the street needed much help. The first project was repairing 20+ feet of eaves where squirrels eaten away the wood to make themselves a highway to the great indoors. I have no decent photographs of this phase the work. The next year I started on the “Great Drip Edge Replacement Project.” Across the back of the house, I replaced the drip edge, rotted sheathing, trim and siding. I then painted all new and adjacent wood. The next year I re-trimmed around the picture window on the front of the house and replaced the drip edge, siding and trim as necessary and painted all new and adjacent wood. The next year I proceeded to the West side of the house doing the same replacing the drip edge and siding and trim as necessary. I painted the new and adjacent wood. The next year I proceeded to the East side of the house and replaced drip edge, trim and siding as necessary and then painted.

As a last project on this beautiful house, the customer, a very creative person, fabricated a stain glass window. Someone perhaps 40 years ago stripped off all the original trim from the exterior of the door and left a smooth 1950s look on this otherwise Victorian home. I matched the trim still existing in the inner hallway adjacent to the front door. I fabricated this trim, installed it around window and created two trim rectangles below the window but visually inside the opening left by the storm door. I then stained and sealed the new trim and the rest of the door.