The Little Things

It is amazing to me all the little details that have to be completed when working on a house that go totally unnoticed, but are necessary and take a long time to accomplish. We can spend a whole weekend doing these little detailed items and if someone were to come by, they would not be able to tell that we worked at all...unless we pointed it out. A recent weekend was spent doing a few of these detailed projects. Just working on the windows involved various steps. First, there was the flashing required around the windows to keep water from getting in. In this picture, the flashing is the silver material surrounding the window. We ran out of the silver flashing and when we went to purchase more, we got a different material. The second type of material was much easier to handle, but when we started to add the trim, we discovered that the new flashing was a little too wide and the material had to be cut after the trim was added. And when yo...