Had an eventful afternoon. I planned to pull the old aluminum storm windows off the two rear kitchen windows because the wife is sick of them leaking when it rains and making spots all over the glass. I was just going to pull them off, clean all the old hardened sealant off, and reinstall them with putty tape (old mobile home trick). Anyhow, I pulled the first storm off, and didn't even need to unscrew it. ALL of the window wood was rotten. The sill was still in good shape, but all 3 other sides were shot. So I ended up pulling all the original exterior trim boards and replicating them in the garage. At least it gave me a reason to fix my band saw and fire up my new-to-me miter saw.
The house is from the 1860s, and has asbestos siding over the original clapboard siding, so it takes some time and finesse to work with projects like this. You can't really cut asbestos tiles (and you wouldn't want to anyway). So you kinda have to make everything new fit to the eyeballed-angles of yesteryear and 160 years of settling and weather damage. Good times.
So something that should have taken 30 minutes took all day. But at least it's done right. Hopefully it'll last another century or so.
so it was worth losing the space for awhile....
