Sunroom: Day 2

We finally ordered the windows and doors last night from the Depot! The corporate 'Bid Room' gave us a pretty good deal (almost 10%), plus we got another $200 off for signing up for their credit card. Not bad - better than we expected. We probably won't get them in for another few weeks, though...

Today involved a little bit of re-doing some stuff from Day 1 (when Carpenter Pete's involved, that's where the 're' in 'renovation' comes from); as I hinted at before, we had to replace the corner posts because of some minor wood rot at the base. Luckily, a handy-dandy floor jack made quick work of the posts; the Mrs. thinks that the new ones look at little bit better, but I can't really tell the difference.

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After swapping out the corner posts, we were able to frame out the windows for the back wall fairly quickly. Slumlord Jim and I made individual frames for each window, and then slid / pounded them into the existing spaces.

Slumlord Jim Preparing to Frame Out Some Windows

This went pretty fast, so we moved on to framing the south wall. We discovered pretty quickly that the floor isn't level (to drain water away from the building, so we ripped up a 2x4 at an angle to shim up the base plate to level, and then we framed up the wall in place. We got through one of the window frames on this wall before calling it a day; we'll get the others done tomorrow, and then try to strategerize a plan for the north wall (the one with the big, fancy door).

Kickin' Up My Feet While the Safety Inspector Makes Her Rounds