Summer Project

My summer project last year was to fix our leaky kitchen door. A hard rain would cause the top of the door to drip and when the shims along the top and sides started swelling and the door got all jambed up I figured that is was probably time to do something. I removed the trim pieces to take a look. Yep, it's wet back there.

The tin roof above the door was in kind of sad shape, so I assumed that was the source of the leak and tore it off. Don was more than happy to help.

Since the new roof would require a more secure seal against the second story gable, we tore the old siding off of that wall. And the second layer of siding under that. The third layer was in pretty good shape, so we put some sheeting over that and then ran the rubber roofing up the wall a couple of feet to make a good tight transition.

Since I was replacing the siding on that end of the house, I decided that I might as well replace our three leakiest windows as well...

I finally quite tearing things off the house and started sealing it back up again.

In the end our leaky door resulted in three new windows, fresh siding on one side of the house, a rubber roof and a new gutter. Here's what it looks like.

So far, no leaks.