This is definitely my favorite time of year. I love the filtered light caused by far off wildfires, the semi still hot air, the new growth on the fruit trees and even the thought of projects to accomplish before winter sets in. One project I have in mind is a firewood shed / garden shed near the Yellow House.
Last week I finished the restoration if the staircase and balustrade in the house. Yesterday Becky and Oliver began to stain the stairs an ebony hue. The small test places they did look amazing. They continue to stain while I work on the exterior of the bay window. The wall beneath the sills has been covered with plywood and partly wrapped with tar paper for too many years now, I am embarrassed to find out how long it has been in that state. The scaffolding is down and progress is being made by covering the lower third of the bay window with salvaged Redwood from the house.
I am amazed how much painted Redwood I have, even though I reused as much of the original material in the renovation/restoration of the house I still have a hefty collection of dirty, nail infested with failing paint old growth Redwood. I am against planing painted boards because of the paint particles that are released and also because of how the paint and dirt dull the knives.
Well I needed to take the material thickness down and eighth of an inch plus some and I planned on only planing the back side. Unfortunately the painted side was the nicer side and the paint was in terrible condition so I flipped them through the planer and got my three quarter thickness I needed to have enough of a reveal under the drip edge of the window sills.
Under these boards I covered the plywood and tar paper with three inch bead board that I fabricated from two by fours that were once a deck at the Mattole School. After wire brushing them I sliced them in half on the table saw and then planed this fresh face. The boards were jointed then ripped then a bead was cut with a router set up in my table saw. The last step was cutting rabbets to make a half lap so that the water won't slip in between them. These were nailed to the wall and then Oliver primed them while I prepped wood for the frames. That is where I am now, enough time spent on this device. It is to crank some DRI radio on Pandora and make the vertical boards that make up frames that cover the bead board. Time to get dirty and wire brush these bad boys.
