Today we finished with all the supporting structure. I slightly exaggerated yesterday's prediction of "only an hours' worth left to finish". It is all soporifically boring (and I'm amazed that you're still coming back to read the blog, after posts about this project), so I won't go into the details, but trust me, the porch is well shored up. I seriously believe it could withstand an earthquake (well, a small one). Now we have only to secure one additional strut -- for attaching the short boards -- and then put in the porch boards, 3" x 7' at a time. I'd say it won't take long, but that would jinx us.In the photo, Andrew is planing the frontmost board to make it the right height for the floorboards (remember the slope from door to stairtop?). Both of us are so tired of this particular adventure that we ran out of steam about 4 this afternoon. Andrew switched over to the much more exciting project of adding electricity to the under-porch cellar.
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Dad always loved planing. I think, that as an expert, he may have realized that a skillful job with a plane can compensate for a lot of mistakes.
Me, I fall in the planing as boring task camp which may be why, as lamented in other threads, I am the least handy in our entire family.
Glad to hear the porch floor is shored up. Not to many earthquakes in Portland, are there?
There are plenty of earthquakes in Portland, as it happens, couched as we are between the active volcanos of St. Helens/Loowit Latkla (which is in constant turmoil these days) and Hood/Wyeast (which has been quiet for the past 250 years or so, but is on the same fault).
Every Wednesday the local quakes are reported in the paper (about 5 or so a week). They are almost all so light that you can't feel them (in Portland).
Planing is not boring when you have the wonderful planing tool that Andrew has. I will be doing a Tool Time post in the near future to expand on the subject.
Isn't Portland on the west coast side of the San Andreas fault?
I'd love to see a Tool Time post. I love tools -- I had to rent a tile saw to install my tile and it was awesome. I kept looking around for more tile to cut up to do something with.
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