ANOTHER PROJECT

The Back Porch (or Back Deck) is a wonderful area used for storage, drying clothes on wet days, sitting and having a cuppa or meal.  The only trouble with it is that on hot days it gets extremely hot due to the clear roof so Doug has decided to put a solid roof on it, plywood underneath, then building paper and iron on top.

While he is doing it he has also decided to extend it to the edge of the deck.

He started today.

Even though we put some shade cloth on top it is still far too hot.  According to the weather on the computer it has been 27 degrees today but feels a lot hotter and was showing in the mid 30's in the Porch.  It is getting hotter earlier than usual and, after the hot summer in the Northern Hemisphere I think we are in for a scorcher.

ONE YEAR ON

It is a year today since I moved in with Doug.  We seem to have done an awful lot in that year.  When I moved here there was a lot planned with the house.  We had spent the previous winter redecorating my house and so very little had been done at Doug's.

 Still a lot to do but he has ticked a lot off the list.    Prior to Christmas we had the high bits on the house painted and after Christmas it was the turn of the back deck.

 This was before

and this is after

These are before photos of the inside 

and the new look

and before and after looking up to the roof in the entrance

It has made a world of difference and, amazingly, Doug agreed to have a painter do the work leaving him time for other jobs. 

We had to clear everything out for the painter and have done a good job in getting rid of items surplus to requirements.

There is also a retractable 4 line clothes line which is a godsend in this wet weather we are having.