Saturday, May 23, 2009

Many Hands = Light Work

Well, that is very easy for me to say....I sat in a chair the whole day and watched and took pictures (and ate rice krispy treats with chocolate chips on them)!! So I am not sure many hands = light work, but it sure does = quick work!! Our family work crew removed, separated and picked up an entire house of siding in 3 hours!!! We are SOOO grateful for the help! And can't believe it is done!!'


The before photos....

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The younger crew...

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That is the garage in the background...that will be the color siding on the house...
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The trusses that will go up on the addition on Tuesday were delivered during the day too!!
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I love watching Andrew work! He has learned so many things from just watching Brian work. He was having a particular hard time getting this piece of siding off. And after trying with just the pry bar unsuccessfully he would jam the pry bar in as far as he could and then he would get the hammer and get it in there just a little more and then really pull on it...I don't know alot of 7 year olds who have a grasp on the physics of leverage! =)
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The Afters...

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All the siding has an insulation backing that has to be removed and then to the dumpster and then all the siding will be recycled...
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You can see here that there was obviously a much smaller original home...
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Still smilin' after all that hard work!
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Oh...the freckles...hard to resist kissin' that face even though it is filthy!!
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh my word, how interesting to see what the house origianally looked like!!! When it was all taken off the front of the house looked actually pretty nice!!
What a difference this will make.
Hope you really are taking it easy!!
Love you~
Mom

the back door said...

beautiful!!! my historian hubby was quite disappointed the original wood siding was not there!!

i'm glad you could sit and watch and eat rice krispies...were they the smudgy kind???