Working on the House

 

So, there were some twists and turns in our journey to finish the stone during the summer. First, we had to remove lots of crappy siding from the bottom 3.5' of the house, and replace some of the gross insulation. We also had to replace some of the rotten foundation because it hadn't been very well protected for the previous twenty years. We put up a ledge for the stone for safety (we didn't want to do all this work just to have stone fall off the wall!).


When we turned the corner to start working on the wall going towards the porch, the wall was a bit bowed, which caused more issues.



And then it was finally time to start actually putting stone on the wall...



(With the magic of technology, we'll skip many months ahead to a finished product...)

And there was much rejoicing when the final stone was in place!