Time for a new deck!

With everyone home we undertook the next stage of our remodeling- rebuilding the deck.  Here are Lisa, Kurt and Tim starting to pull up the old deck.  Somewhere we have a picture of Kurt and Lisa laying this orignial deck- Lisa is about three years olds....she was just about as helpful as Mark- who was lurking underneath the deck...

Mark popped up in every opening we made...

Progress

By the end of the day the deck was mostly gone and the wall was dismantled too.....

Next the door was moved to the right

Then the old window was removed- a replacement window is on order...

After wrapping one wall in Tyvek we moved on to sealing in the crawl space

Betty was the hero of the next step- she spent one whole day underneath the house putting up rigid insulation- and she never complained even though it was dirty, uncomfortable work.  Thank you Betty!.

Kurt had to go under once in a while to give guidance and suggestions. (Ellie, Catharines dog, also had a few things to say about the work)

After everyone left Kurt did the final sealing off steps- wood and metal barriers

And finally- a concrete base and spray foam insulation for all the remaining cracks.  We are going to have a toasty house this winter!