This is the first major house project that we are having done. When we bought the house there was a significant pest report (however, not unreasonable for our area). During our inspection period we had the pest guy come out and talk us through the report. It was really helpful to be able to ask him questions and get his opinion about what things were higher priority and what things could wait (of course if we had a money tree in the back it wouldn't matter, but we only have the redwood...*sigh*).
Basically he told us that anything structurally related was a must, which only pertained to one corner of the house (phew!). So starting at the beginning of the month we've had scaffolding at one corner of the house while they took out some wood structure with dry rot. The following are photos of the work in progress.
Scaffolding from top to bottom
Dry rot!
All gone!
New boards
Next layer
Chicken wire!
They were expecting to finish this week but unfortunately rains came so they've had to postpone for awhile.
It's been interesting to watch the progression of house layers and amazes me that these structures actually can stand up!
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