On Friday I was going to investigate to see what was behind the siding in the courtyard so I could get a game plan together for how I was going to replace all of the windows in the courtyard.
What I found..... wasn't good. The construction on the house was a little sub-par to say the least. From research I've done Milton Ryan used "standard length" wood to build his homes to cut done on the cost of lumber. So what I found out was all of the 2 x 4's used in the house were a maximum of 8' in length. On a 10' wall they didn't reach all the way to the top so they spliced them in the middle. Once I pulled the T-111 siding off the outside the wall got a little flimsy. We also found a lot of rotten boards that appeared to have suffered from years of neglect and water infiltration.
Once I found this out I couldn't wait I started tearing off all of the sideing and ripping out the windows. This made for a long weekend but in the end we prevailed and we finished most of the living room wall and started on the kitchen wall.
More to come next weekend.....
