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Grinding away at the front facade trim

 


We attached about seven pieces to the house this weekend. Fancy trim is hard work.


We installed this second diagonal trim board.


We put up vertical trim on either side of the doors so we could get on to putting in fiber cement siding panels.



Siggy made a sign for the archery range and a model house.




Guinivere made some of the diagonal trim that will go in the middle of the design.


Siobhan is priming one of the upper diagonal trims that we need in place before installing siding panels.

 


Siggy, Guinivere and Siobhan slept at the shedlet with dad.

Sunday



Christina and Eliot installed the two lower siding panels. Eliot flashed the seam.


Jon and Christina manufactured more of the middle trim panels. These panels took a lot of test fitting and trim cycles. After that, they each get a dozen rip cuts to make reliefs to go around the window edge profiles and nailing flanges. Then more hand-cut reliefs for lumpy sections of waterproofing tape.


Once the thing finally fits in place, it gets bondo wood filler to fill the knots and defects, sanded, and primed. We finished these five boards on Sunday, but left them inside the house to dry. They'll go up next weekend.


Jon and Eliot wrestled the second layer of siding panels into place.


Siggy made a giant sign from scrap lumber. After he left, Eliot worked on painting it. We've not really found a consensus yet on the cabin's name, but Eliot's trying to make the name Fjelllund a fait acompli. I'm pretty sure it's Sanskrit for "porta potty."

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  1. JOctober 5, 2020 at 9:18 PM

    Hard work! I'm especially impressed with the flower boxes on the model house. <3

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