Busy time of year is the autumn season, gardens are coming to a close, firewood should get under cover, and houses need maintenance. I was asked to build replacement doors to replace French doors at the Cockburn estate and found several rotting areas of wood around windows. I spent a day replacing rotten sills and walked away with a couple sashes that need repair.
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| Rotten sill |
I am very excited to be laying the floor in the kitchen of the house. We let the wood guide us in how to lay the (locally milled) rough sawn Doug Fir boards ranging in width from 4 to 14 inches. There was just enough wide boards to do the perimeter and then we divided the room into three sections determined by the tiles for the wood stove. Two of the three sections are again split in half and these areas are infilled with a log cabin pattern. Get it? The boards are perpendicular to each other pressing them together. This is a first for me but it seems like it would be a ancient way of laying a floor with rough lumber and keeping the joints tight.
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| Laying the floor in the kitchen. |
The oak cabinets for the Arcata rental were installed. Oliver helped me out and we discovered the tenants were all music majors at HSU and they knew Oliver's violin teacher Cindy and showered her with compliments.
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| New upper cabinets. |
The shingle project is close to being finished. We ran about two bundles short. The last section will have some sort of vine pattern flowing through it. I also finished siding the last wall with corrugated galvanized steel.
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| Cedar Shingles |
I have seen a few people recently (on Instagram) using a router to flatten slabs. I needed a slab to bolt an old apple peeler/core to. I built a quick jig with a sled that the router slides back and forth in as you push the sled along the length of the slab. I worked really well! I tried using a power planer and a belt sander first but the slab was severely twisted. This jig flattened both sides in no time.
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| Flattening Jig |
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