Normandy Park Restoration

Doesn't look like much, but give the 60's era vintage of all the finishings on the house, it's nice to see a properly finished door threshold Needs a little touch up on the inside part, but the rest is all properly sealed, and protected with custom metal pieces I kit-bashed together.  All the metal parts cost about $20 total.  There just wasn't any off the shelf item that would work.

 Removed all of the old windows, and ready to start framing. Really wanted to remove the last 2 next to the fireplace, but it felt like I might be risking the structure, and that wall gets more splash from the rain so that would probably need constantly cleaning, so I'll live with that.

 Getting prepped to start finishing the hardwood, clearing out all of the furniture. Also finished the caulk and paint on the roof above the sunken area.

 2 Windows installed, can only transport 2 at a time so I'll have to go back for the 3rd on Monday.  Think I'll have the rest delivered.

Replacing all of the large windows with larger double-pane windows.  The involves sawing out the center support, and then adding additional framing at the bottom (as there is none currently) and building a frame.  I'm doing them in sets of 3 or 4 so that they are manageable.  Unfortunately the glass isn't cheap.  Code requires tempered glass, and I'm looking at about $775 per window. Start, demolition The base only had the metal flashing wrapped over the foundation, so as a precaution I went ahead and sealed it with the same tar-based sealer I'm using on the base of the foundation Now framing And finally, once measurements are made, and glass ordered (2 week delivery) some temporary filler is put in place

Finally getting the kitchen windows fully installed.  Since I'm using a dark color on the trim, I had to compensate for that by using a black window caulk, and my pre-painting before installing any of the white trim.  Here I'm getting ready to install the raw glass And here I've installed them and put some paint on before installing the inner trim The last piece on the right ended up being too large, so I'll have to re-order a piece for that.