A VERY Busy Four Day Weekend

This past weekend was a 4 day weekend for us.  William had his scheduled day off on the Friday and Monday was a holiday.  I made sure to get a ton of stuff done so we could both dedicate the whole weekend to our lovely "little" renovation.  We were so lucky as the weather was perfect!  We have really enjoyed watching the changing of the seasons.  Looks like the farmer's crops are almost ready to harvest.

Other than taking the Saturday off to be with family, we spent the entire time working on as much as we could.  We finally finished the doors we stripped and sanded.  Other than waiting for the blacksmith to finish some hardware these babies are ready to be put up.  And if I do say so myself they look amazing!

Bare wood

With the varathane

We also sanded and varathaned the wood for the pass through.

We also had dirt delivered for the yard.

But the BIG project was sanding/painting the front windows and power washing the siding. 

Sanding off the old paint.

Replacing old calking and filling up holes.

Painting the window sills.

Scraping paint off the windows (this is like popping bubble wrap if you have never done it.  Satisfying!!)  This picture is the inside of the window.  I didn't want to take pictures from atop the ladder.

Power washing the siding.  It makes me really sad how this building had received no real TLC for AGES.  There were huge clumps of spider webs, dirt, bugs and just years of nastiness washed away.

In this next picture the first two sections have been washed and William was about to start the third.  It's a little hard to see just how dirty the building was and the difference it made to wash it.

We also began to rip off the parging/stucco that is so cracked it is really just falling off.

 

We haven't finished this job yet as when we started it, it was end of day on Monday and we were both exhausted and decided it was something we could come back to.

And here is a picture of the front of the church with everything done.

An extremely productive long weekend.  The next big/messy job is the hardwood floor from the front door to the stairs going into the basement.