Painting At Last!

The very last step in getting all of the recovery work done in our house is having the outside completely painted.  We have been waiting our turn in line with Rigsee, the island painter, and at last our time is here.  Worry about Hurricane Isaias held things up for a few days, but all the caulking and taping started two days ago and today paint is starting to go on the house.

Our turn for the paint crew.

Of course, every bit of progress leads to another issue; when the caulking started it was discovered that more of the siding on the south side of the house needed to be replaced.  We decided to go ahead and replace that whole side of the house with a composite material that looks just like wood but will never rot and never need to be replaced again. (It’s just money!)

This whole side has to be torn off and replaced.

Now we delight in watching the transformative progress that really makes things look finished.  We will be overjoyed when everything is at last complete!

The painters are trying to figure out how to get up to what they are calling “the tower.”