About two months ago, when we re-did the siding on the right side of the house, we had the company install two new windows as well, to replace two that were not doing well in the back of the house. One on either side. However, after all that we decided we wanted a second window in the room that will be the laundry room to look out at the back yard. We also thought maybe something more artistic and different would look better in the master bathroom. SO, we moved the window that was there to the laundry room instead. We also got a back door installed.
And it locks.
Ammmaaazing! Now we don't have to screw a piece of plywood over the opening every night. It's the little things that are really exciting when doing a project like this.
Vinnie went hunting last weekend and found us a window for our bathroom. At first when we saw it I thought it would be waaaay too big for the bathroom. However, Vinnie totally has an eye for this and could picture it in his mind the whole time. Here it is: our eight-paned window with Florentine glass.
Yesterday Carl (our firefighter that works for us on his "off" days during the week) and Vinnie framed it in. While they were working on that we had two other guys we hired for the day rip ALL the siding off the left side of the house. Originally we thought we could just patch that side and use most of the old cypress that was already there. However, after looking at it for the last few weeks we decided to completely re-do it. It would be pointless to go to all the work of tearing parts off and repairing them and hoping that next year once the house is all nice and finished it didn't spring another leak and ruin our new sheet rock or something. Also, the area towards the back on that side was so poorly done originally, that there was a lot of rot from water leaking in and attracting termites. This way we can say the whole house has new siding (as we are also re-doing the back) that was done at the same time.
While they were tearing the siding off, Scott worked on fixing all the areas of rot. Sistering in new boards and completely rebuilding the frames around a few windows. Vinnie and Carl helped him with areas in between framing the bathroom window in and re-building that wall (as it was the area with the worste rot/termite damage).
View from inside the master bathroom to outside.
(I'll have to post a picture tomorrow of what that wall/new window now look like.)
There were a few more areas of concern than we expected throughout the wall. It was frustrating in the moment - but also reassures us that we made the right decision for the long-term. 
Here's the house with the siding off.
Today our siding guys came and got all the plywood up to cover that side of the house. Tomorrow they will weatherproof it and start on the actual hardy board siding.
That's how far they were at lunch time. Just two guys.
They had all the plywood up by 6pm before they went home for the night. It's impressive how fast they are.
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