New Front Porch Lights & The Week's Porch Makeover Progress

My whole purpose for the week was to get the entire smaller tasks finished on the entrance porch in order that I may end up this week (and I nonetheless have two extra days) with staining the wooden on the porch as a result of as soon as I get the primary coat of pine tar on the porch, it’s going to take 72 hours to dry. So all of those different tasks that require me to stroll on the entrance porch must be completed first. I believe I’m on monitor to get it finished within the subsequent couple of days. I’m going to attempt my hardest!

I did get just a little behind yesterday as a result of I made a decision to do yet one more coat of paint on the columns, the white components of the railings, and the newel posts. After I completed that, I made a decision to put in the brand new porch lights. Putting in the lights was straightforward half. Accessing the lights was a problem.

For some purpose that I can’t determine, I can’t get the door to my workshop open. And naturally, the brand new lights had been being saved within the workshop. After spending a ridiculous period of time attempting to get the door open, I seen that one of many home windows was cracked open just a bit bit. So I acquired my ladder, opened the window, and peeked inside to see the place the lights had been. They occurred to be close to the window, so with the assistance of a 6-inch paint curler (sans curler cowl), I used to be capable of attain them, hook the lid of the field on the paint curler, drag them nearer to the window, open the lid of the field, and hook the highest a part of every gentle onto the top of the paint curler and raise it by means of the window. It’s at all times so irritating when silly issues eat up my time (I’m certain you may relate), and what a ridiculous fluke this was! What ought to have taken me 5 minutes (opening the door, grabbing the brand new lights, and heading to the entrance porch) ended up taking about 40 minutes of my time simply to get my new lights out of the workshop. I may have made a visit to Lowe’s and acquired new lights in that period of time! 😀

Anyway, the dangerous information is that I do not know why my workshop door gained’t open, so it’s now holding plenty of my instruments hostage, and I now have a brand new downside to resolve. The excellent news is that I did rescue my new lights and I used to be capable of set up them yesterday.

The brand new lights are those that I initially purchased for the workshop, however they ended up being too large. Somewhat than returning them, I held onto them and determined to swap them out for the smaller lights that had been on the entrance porch. Right here’s a comparability of the 2, with the brand new gentle on the left and the unique entrance porch gentle on the appropriate.

I actually love this bigger measurement for our entrance porch. And I just like the design of those a lot better anyway. The smaller lights can be good for the workshop, so I boxed these up and I’ll set up these on the workshop later.

And naturally, my little buddy Tiger was preserving me firm all day yesterday.

So I acquired two tasks checked off of my record yesterday — the columns (together with the railings and newel posts) and the brand new lights.

I used to be actually hoping to get the fascia boards utterly completed as effectively. You’ll be completely satisfied to know that I did no less than get the entrance fascia board on, so these are prepared for caulk and paint.

However I’m having a heck of a time getting this facet board utterly off. I did get most of it off, however that final bit gave me issues.

I believed the largest problem can be to get all of those screws on the ends of the porch boards out. Each considered one of these was screwed into the sting of the fascia board. The screw holes had been all lined with exterior wooden filler which dried about at onerous as concrete. So digging that out took plenty of time and endurance. As soon as these had been out, I anticipated the fascia board to come back off simply.

Sadly, that didn’t occur. I’m telling you, after I construct one thing, I don’t count on it to ever come aside. 😀 So I’ll need to work on this final bit in the present day in order that I can get the remainder of the brand new fascia boards on.

I used to be actually outdoors final night time till 9:00, working by the sunshine of my telephone, attempting to get this off. However I lastly gave up and determined I simply wanted to name it an evening.

I additionally nonetheless must do some paint touchups across the ceiling — touchups that ought to have been finished again after I painted the ceiling however I by no means acquired round to them.

However I’m making progress on these little tasks. I nearly have all of them completed, which signifies that I’ll be capable of get all of this cleaned up very quickly and eventually get the porch boards stained with the pine tar.

It’s coming alongside! I can’t wait to get this completed and present you the ultimate porch!

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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.

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