With staying home today due to ice damn removal I was able to get a lot done on the guest bedroom. I sanded the first application of Sheetrock over the mesh tape. You could still see the tape so I did another coat feathering it out to the edges.
The walls are all done now which is nice. Two more nights of the ceiling and all the sanding and mudding should be done.
Today I also cut all of the quarter round for the baseboards. There were 8 cuts in all. I made the first 6 perfectly. Then I messed up the last 2. I had enough material to cut new pieces. I then primed them in the basement.
That's about it for the work today - time to take the dog for a walk and enjoy some of the sunshine.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Ice Damn - The Follow Up
Well Sergei and his worker arrived at 10:00am as promised. The got up on the flat roof from the back of the house. This is how I got up last summer to install the gutters. However, after almost not being able to come down I said I would never go up there again. Anyways...
The worked for about 2 hours getting everything cleaned up. Not surprisingly we had about 4 feet of snow up there with about 4 inches of ice built up around the gutters - that was the bad news.
Sergei showed me a picture when he came down and the roof was clear of all snow and ice. What was left up there would have melted this afternoon since it was above freezing.
Hopefully this solves our roof problems for now and the window stops leaking. Tomorrow night I'm going to clean up what leaked out and leave it for a week to make sure there is not more water. If all is good then I will strip and re-paint the window.
The worked for about 2 hours getting everything cleaned up. Not surprisingly we had about 4 feet of snow up there with about 4 inches of ice built up around the gutters - that was the bad news.
Sergei showed me a picture when he came down and the roof was clear of all snow and ice. What was left up there would have melted this afternoon since it was above freezing.
Hopefully this solves our roof problems for now and the window stops leaking. Tomorrow night I'm going to clean up what leaked out and leave it for a week to make sure there is not more water. If all is good then I will strip and re-paint the window.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Damn those Ice Damns
Well, it seems this winter has gotten the best of our roof. This past weekend we have been working hard on the guest bedroom to fix it up for the end of March.
We noticed around the window some cracks and little brown spots - oh yes it was water. I took off the screen on the window and looked outside and there was water and ice all over the brick dripping down from the flat roof.
This morning I called some places and Serge from All County Aluminum is coming tomorrow morning at 10am.
It sounds like we have an ice damn on the flat room. I did some research (shocking ) and basically what happens is that as the snow melts and freezes there is a large build up around the gutters. This blocks the normal path of flow for further melting. As a result all of the water just sits on the roof and causes problems - as we've seen.
So tomorrow they are going to remove the snow and ice from the flat roof and go from there. I will update the blog tomorrow with the progress. (And some pictures of the guest bedroom so far).
Oh the bank account isn't going to enjoy this week :(
We noticed around the window some cracks and little brown spots - oh yes it was water. I took off the screen on the window and looked outside and there was water and ice all over the brick dripping down from the flat roof.
This morning I called some places and Serge from All County Aluminum is coming tomorrow morning at 10am.
It sounds like we have an ice damn on the flat room. I did some research (shocking ) and basically what happens is that as the snow melts and freezes there is a large build up around the gutters. This blocks the normal path of flow for further melting. As a result all of the water just sits on the roof and causes problems - as we've seen.
So tomorrow they are going to remove the snow and ice from the flat roof and go from there. I will update the blog tomorrow with the progress. (And some pictures of the guest bedroom so far).
Oh the bank account isn't going to enjoy this week :(
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