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Creation date / 2009
- Nailing the decking
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- Betsy's 'upskirt' shot
- Sometimes the pneumatic nailer doesn't "get it done"
- New year's Day 2009. Almost done with the decking
- Victory - decking finished
- Start the morning by rolling out the roofing felt
- Dave approves
- Dana "lost a screw". Under the porch?
- Finishing the "drip edge"
- Walking on the roofing felt made it wrinkle - something to avoid
- Dave, Ken, and Dana (left to right)
- Dana starts the first course of shingles
- Dana and Ken shingle the back side
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- Sunday it dropped to 44 degrees
- Weathering the track
- Sanding
- Edging
- Iron on edging
- Undercoat
- Installing nailers for the soffits
- Prepping to install soffit covers
- Nailing soffit covers in place
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- Installing soffit vents
- Dave came over to help
- Betsy and Dave align a soffit cover
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- Test fitting the first piece of siding
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- Getting more siding up
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- Betsy and Ken
- Betsy primed most of the siding
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- Gluing the track
- Gluing down peanuts
- Applying plaster clothe
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- Test fitting the door frame
- Dave and I built the doors in his garage the day before
- Door frame finished - test fitting doors
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- Test fitting gable vent
- Siding the gable walls
- Mindy handling the detail cut on the jigsaw
- Betsy and Ro supervising
- Installing hinges
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- Doors finished
- Installing trim
- Installing trim
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- Looking good
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- Installing door hardware
- Painting
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- Spreading the ground
- Spreading the ballast
- Ballast
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- Measuring for bracket
- Planting trees
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- Molding rocks
- Painting rocks
- Painting tunnel portal
- Tunnel weathered with soot
- Betsy painting the wall
- Painting the door
- Painting the door
- Wood rack
- Shelf
- Finished!
- Finished!
- Painting the sheeting to prevent warp/shrink
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- Kreg's Jig for Pocket Hole joints
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- Rim Joists
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- Common Joists
- T Beams
- Legs
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- Test fitting legs
- Test fitting leg joints
- Streets - Castle in background
- Government Administration Building
- Ken and Betsy
- Bridge across Danube
- UFO bridge - Soviet Era
- Bratislava