Yesterday evening I discussed with Anne what I still needed to do besides the porch removal and the work involved with taking the remainder of the porch down. We decided to leave the porch, in its open form, as is for now. This was a huge relief, since there was still a daunting task ahead of me to finish the removal and to keep the home weather proof.

I could therefore visit the historical society (see other post) and work on removing some remaining lath and plaster. I also needed to get some more stuff to winterize the home. And I needed to get a camera, since I had forgotten to bring one from CA.

The first thing I did was to go out to a couple of stores to find a match for the current siding of our home. I was successful and it is still commercially available. This is a huge relief, not because I like this siding so much, but because it saves us the cost of residing the entire house when we do the remodel.

The siding make/model/color is: CertainTeed/Mainstreet D5/Savanah Wicker.

I was pleasantly surprised in the afternoon, right at around 4:30, two of the tech students came by to help (I had given them an open invitation) and together we got all of the porch ceiling removed and it was heavily insulated. The dumpster bin is nice and full now. We found out what color the wood siding was just prior to closing up the porch: Pink (yes, we pity the neighbors too)

We all worked until it got dark (I bought a flood light this morning, but I did not want to risk anyone getting hurt).

The porch is gutted to a point where the next thing to do is to remove the structure and build the new one.