We have a few problems; namely wasps, carpenter ants, wood rot, peeling paint, who knows how many layers of roof, sagging joists, and I'm sure there are a few more I haven't listed. To get things started, we had all of the rain gutters (that were growing trees) removed, and the shutters that were holding back water and creating huge wasp breeding grounds. While scraping paint, the bases of the columns on the left hand side of the porch crumbled, which really accentuated how out of balance the front porch was. Luckily, re-roofing was already on the list of things to do, so Jody stripped off the countless layers of roof, and jacked up the front porch. In the meantime, Joel went digging through miles of random stuff at Hayley's Salvage to find four matching column bases so the columns could be re-set. We used roughly two cases of wasp spray to get rid of all of the flying critters, especially after Charlie got his nose stung by one. I think it will be last time he decides to sniff at a wasp crawling on the ground.
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