This past Sunday we harvested 10 of our 14 broilers. We considered it a vacation from window construction. We now have about 50 pounds of chicken parts in our freezer. We will need to offload some of our stashed protein on our children! On Monday we recommenced window replacement.

These were the last two single paned windows in the house. They are gone now.

The last old window. Out. Yay.

Framed for a new window! If you compare these two photos, you will notice that Clyde used windows that fit between 24” studs. As such, he didn’t need to create headers to support the roof trusses over a window. The windows were between all needed supports. However, the windows he used leaked, which then required him to build awnings over them. It worked, but also blocked the view. I am looking forward to being able to see out of windows!

Michael and I got the Oriented Strand Board (OSB) up by balancing it on a board and then attaching it to the studs. Figuring out where to put that board wasn’t as easy as it may seem. OSB comes in 8 foot sheets. The wall, however, is longer than 8’. Clyde installed a small strip of siding at the top to fill the gap. I didn’t notice this immediately (since I hadn’t been working up there) and so our first two sheets of OSB wouldn’t pull down right. It took us until the second sheet to figure out what was wrong, which meant we had to take down those sheets, lower our board by about 3/8”, and then put them up again. They fit the second time.

Because we put a basement under an existing structure, the two parts of the house don’t align well. In order to have siding that doesn’t buckle at the bottom because of the uneven spacing, we have been shimming out the space and extending the OSB to the cement block of the basement.