PORCH PROJECT - primary disassembly

Today I took all the siding off the lower section of the porch. Here is a glamor shot for you Wisteria fans.

This is not the support for the central pillar, because there is nothing underneath it. What's holding it up? Not the vertical member to the right, because that wiggles freely. Apparently the load is distributed by the railing to other parts of the porch. This has made it necessary for me to re-think where I can cut the rail to put in my temporary supports, so as not to bring the roof crashing down. I think there is a lot of cantilever action going on in that roof thanks to adequate construction done in the 1930s.

Below you see the quality of workmanship involved. Each newer vertical member is accompanied by a couple of older chunks of wood - I said accompanied rather than supported by, because those chunks of old wood pivot freely on the nails attaching them. They do not appear to serve any purpose. The curve of the rail at the top of the picture is not lens distortion, it is the result of the load pressing down on either side.

This is a closeup of the west (left) corner. The direct support for this corner of the roof is the spongy, fragmenting older piece of wood with the big rusty nail in it, resting on the very corner of the cinder block. The other piece is just there to nail the siding onto.

Here it is with all the siding removed, and a sign for legal purposes reading, IF YOU COME IN HERE BE CAREFUL. The roof is no more likely to collapse today than it was yesterday, but seeing just how bad the situation is makes me worry more. All it has to do is stay up a few more days until I can get some support in there.

PORCH PROJECT - preliminary

Today's work - the insanely overengineered sawhorses I have always wanted. Not as elegant as the Naked/Weavers design on which it is based, but very very strong and sturdy. I settled for wobbly metal-bracket sawhorses for years and have had enough. You could do a go-go dance on these, or put a door across and ride a unicycle on it.

Below is the front porch (looking north) with the lower boards pulled off revealing the idiotic cinder-block structure supporting the flooring.

Here is the west end of the porch showing a fragment of the original wooden structure. It probably rotted away and was replaced by the stupid cinder block mess, I assume because they got a bunch of cinder blocks for free so they didn't have to do it right. I stuck some spare bricks in the bigger holes just to keep the cats out. The next step is to strip away the siding and prepare for propping the roof to replace the uprights with 8' treated 4x4s.

SUNDAY WEBCOMIC

It took me half the day to finally find a SUNDAY WEBCOMIC for my SUNDAY WEBCOMIC fans. Fortunately CANINE COPROTHRUSTIVE CONUNDRUM is "on hiatus," i.e. the guy finally ran out of ideas or steam, or had exams, or left school and got a job. This has many of the top features for a SUNDAY WEBCOMIC; especially interesting in the earlier episodes are the injokes about things I know nothing about, and the paragraphs under the strips detailing his struggles with the muse and how he views his advancement as an artist. Have you ever noticed how careful I am about not saying outright negative things about these strips? It is hard.

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Those That Sacrafice - $35 (SEa)

You sacrafice shit you murdering fucks. You do it for your own gain.

FBI = Pig Cop

ATF = Pig Cop

CIA = Pig Cop

Cop = Pig Cop

Hitler would be proud of you but I don't like you murdering swine military fucks one bit.

If you look its always greedy pigs that support the war and the natural recorces they gain from it.

You scum bags kill women and children just as depicted in the movie DISTRICT 9. You treat others as less than human beings when really your the lesser of a human being being a murderer. You go into other peoples homes just like pig cops here in the USA go into peoples homes, and just like Hitlers hatful murderinmg soldires went into Jews homes and took them away to murder them.

Military = Future FBI agent, CIA Agent, ATF Agent, or Future PIG COP.

Does it suprise you these District 9(movie) fucks kill innocent women and children every single day in other contries?

You go to Hell after this I garantee it faceless coward fucker face murderers.

Here is memorial day from me murderers.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-szfJuEU2M

Avater fools rush in you over-glorified military pigs.

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Mind reading technology (Is there greater of a murderer)

Will someone please exterminate, execute, yes justifiably kill these murderers with this mind reading technology. Destroy the device itself as well. Please these military fucks are monsters and the Obamanation president is lying its not other countries hacking my computer its the US govornment pigs and they are radiating me with who knows what in order to STEAL thoughts from my head. Please kill them if anyone is listening and can help please kill them it would be just.

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