CH: Day 44
Inching up, baby! Look to the far right. I need only two more rows of siding to finish. The blue tarp has proved a godsend. Rather than broil in the sun I am shaded and a large fan keeps the air moving. Shade! Fan! Ross happy.
When the siding reaches it top-most level I will need to install flat trim, and crown. The latter will be new. I might be able to salvage the former.
A step to the left. I will bring the siding up to the turret. Then paint it. I will not do the ‘under’ siding until the door is removed and the large window relocated. Which…I am hoping…will be next week. Oh, and I am sooooooooo looking forward to removing the 524 numbers and burning them. I hate crappy house numbers.
Something curious. WHAT is this notch? Is it a 1894 notch? Meaning valuable information? Or a circa-1921 notch? Meaning not much. I suspect the former and am a bit obsessed. Does the notch offer information about the long-lost roofed porch in the NW corner?
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That notch looks like it was for a hinge.
I don’t think so. Looks too big and too deep/recessed. If it were some sort of big heavy hinge, Ross should find another notch farther down the corner. But with those nails the only “holes” in that notch, I don’t think it’s for a hinge.
Wow. You’re going to move the door and install the big window? Next week? Squeeee! I thought that would have to wait until after all of the work was done and signed off. I am so excited. It does make sense to do it now since you are doing all of the siding. And if you do install the window and do the siding, might this side also get the finished Cross House paint treatment rather than just a white wash? That would be awesome.
The notch. Interesting. It could be for some sort of a header. Yes, for that long lost porch maybe.
It seems this side is going so much faster than the first wall even though it is so much bigger.
A mystery…hmm. One suggestion; I remember the 1880s carriage house at my great-grandparents’ house, G-Gpa lived to be 98 and I visited him a lot in the 1970s and early 1980s. His large door had never been converted to a roll-up garage door, it was a big wooden door that hung on a big iron track and slid sideways to open and shut. I did a lot of painting for Gpa in my teens, including the carriage house door, gables, and soffit; the iron track was set out around 2″-3″ from the wall and had a small iron plate every few feet that mounted on or into the header in the wall behind it. The iron plates were around 2″ wide and probably 3″-4″ tall, and around 1/2″ thick. I am remember it from 40 years ago, and I hope that I explained it where you can understand it. When I saw your notch, I immediately thought that there may have been some sort of mounting bracket here, possible inset into the wood to get the doors the correct distance from the wall…
I always find a picture AFTER I have posted my comment… This picture is of a new door, but the rail it is on reminds me of the 1880s rail on Gpa’s door…
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/63543044712544273/
Hi, Mike! I have previously posted that there may have been a sliding door under the turret. There is one grainy image showing what might…might…be a track. So, your suggestion is a good one! Thanks!
I think you’re right. I’ll bet Ross finds some indication of that when he starts to move the window into place.
That doesn’t mean that notch can’t be used for the future porch roof.
Progress! It is going much faster than the first side. You’re getting the hang of it now and moving like an old pro. Can’t wait to see the large window installed and the door moved. Here’s hoping the notch is from 1894.