One project was our side porch...
In the almost twenty five years that we've lived here, we've replaced the wooden floor boards on this heavily used porch at least twice...maybe three times. The tongue and groove boards looked nice, until they began to rot from moisture over time. We tried to keep them painted, but over time there wasn't much option but to replace them. Again.
This time we decided to go with a composite material, from a local Amish company that we've used before for PVC and hi-tensil fencing. We lined things up in late April, but with the rainy summer we've had, things didn't get underway until last week.
They ripped off the old porch boards on Thursday afternoon, and came back on Friday morning to install the new floor...
The dogs couldn't stay off the porch even while they were working in it. I overheard one of the guys commenting that "it looks like she's reclaiming her porch!"
Yesterday the came back to finish up. They put hinges in the door to the basement, and replaced the pump trough...
...and they finished the other part of the job.
This section of fence around the barnyard was begging to be replaced for a while, and it looks so much better now! We opted to also put up a section of fence to block off the skid tanks that hold our diesel and gasoline. I would say it was a great improvement!
You know what would make it even better?
Some SUNSHINE! I was just looking up rainfall totals for Lancaster County this year...
Lancaster County usually receives about 41" of rainfall per year. We've already reached/surpassed that amount, with four months to go in 2018.
SUNSHINE...please?
