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Sunday, November 1st 2009

8:00 PM

Fall Back Into the Groove

Much of the summer was spent on mundane tasks of prepping the exterior for some survival fixes. The exterior wood surfaces have been in need of this since we purchased Kraemer House 4 years ago. A lot of paint has chipped away, showing signs of bare wood. Bare wood equal r-o-t. There's a fair amount of that too, and the battles have to be chosen.

You may remember that we started tackling these various projects as far back as 2007. For a walk down memory lane, click on and check out the following updates:

Previous exterior repairs

Burning the paint off of the house

Repairing the back porch

Picking paint colors

Painting the back porch

Porch finished

The goal this fall is to have all of the windows and bump-outs, repaired, sanded, primed, and painted. That started this week.

It really didn't take too much scraping to get the paint down to the bare wood!

After scraping and sanding, the windows were glazed and filler used where needed.

Not a job for someone afraid of heights! Note the new basement door! Rich replaced it this summer-- it came primed that color and will be painted to blend into the house colors.