Archive for the 'Restoration' Category

January 7, 2005

Friday, January 7th, 2005

Work on the outside of the house is nearly complete. We have rebuilt all the historic fascia boards and trim. We are putting a coat of primer on all of the untreated wood to ensure water proofing.

January 5, 2005

Wednesday, January 5th, 2005

Fort Vancouver was no more, as sunshine and blue skies were in the forecast. Here’s the most recent picture of our new Vancouver office.

January 4, 2004

Tuesday, January 4th, 2005

This is our new cedar roofing.

January 3, 2004

Monday, January 3rd, 2005

Fort Vancouver came down today. We will have dry weather for a few days so we will finish up the roof and gutters this week.

December 29, 2004

Wednesday, December 29th, 2004

Pre staging area:

Staging area:

December 23, 2004

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004

We took off this square dormer. It didn’t match the rest of the house and we think it looks much beter like this

December 19, 2004

Sunday, December 19th, 2004

FORT VANCOUVER: We need to keep everything as dry as possible while the roof was exposed.

December 17, 2004

Friday, December 17th, 2004

This is the original roof pattern. We found this during the roof tear off.

Monday December 13, 2004

Monday, December 13th, 2004

This is our new entrance on the Daniels Street side of the house. This is a temporary door and the new door will be our ADA entrance.

Friday December 10, 2004

Friday, December 10th, 2004

We cut out all the dead wood from the front oak trees. We also cut back the holly trees to open up the back parking area.