Just Another Pretty Fascia

     Our granddaughter is here for a few weeks, and she has been a huge help. Elicia helped me stain sheet after sheet of cedar plywood.  I could roll the stain, but I couldn't move and stack the sheets by myself. With her help, we stained two huge stacks of cedar plywood, and painted foot after foot of fascia boards.

 

 Elicia was also the official jobsite cleaner-upper. That meant going up top to the second floor and filling bucket after bucket with wood debris and hauling them to the junk pile, sweeping up piles of sawdust and crooked nails. I tried very hard not to be overly protective as she scrambled up and down the ladder. She cleared the pathways of junk and swept all the sand out of the way. It was a huge help to have all those things done.

   We finally hit a week of good weather. And when it's good, it's wonderful,,,,light fluffy clouds, about 72 degrees...sunny enough to feel good and not so hot as to inhibit outside work.  
   Ed is working on getting all the fascia boards up in place before putting the sheeting on the roof. It really helps having them painted ahead of time because getting up there to paint them after they are in place would be really difficult.
  

  Those lovely but tricky eyebrow dormers add a level of challenge to the manufacture of the fascia boards.The sweep and angle is part of that new math we all learned in high school and then promptly forgot. Everyone except Ed, thank goodness. I remember being in geometry class and thinking."I'll never use this stuff in a million years." Who knew a million years would fly by so quickly. Good thing Ed was paying attention.





 Once he checked it for fit, he brought it down for the final cut. He uses that skilsaw like it was a sculptor's scalpel. Then back up the ladder for the install.










      By the end of the day all the fascia boards were up in the front. Every step makes such a difference in how the structure looks. The roofing plywood is on the lower levels.

 

 On to the back..well..with a quick detour. Ed needed to make the notches for the lookouts on the east and west ends. Man, it makes me so nervous when he's up that high on the roof. Guess I'd better get used to it because there's still a lot of work to be done, very high up.

  Then the fascia boards went up on the back. And there are hours of work that don't even show; placing vent blocking, nailing metal clips, things I don't even understand...

   For the next few days, Ed will be mowing pastures, then Monday, he'll be back up on the roof.