I tore down the steps (that's all there was, the front door has just been
plastered onto a blank front wall) and built a front porch. It has
been great fun, until the roof.
30 years ago I put a standing seam roof on the whole house with 100
year old manual tools. Getting back into the swing of things and finding
the material I needed and working on such a small roof turned out to
be a challenge.
I put one side of the roof on with 26 gauge metal. It was extremely
hard to do, and I wasn't satisfied with it so I tore it off and started
over with 29 gauge metal from a different supplier.
30 years ago I easily got wonderful rolls of material for about
$30 a roll. The 26 gauge I just got was almost $200 a roll!
The 29 was "only" about $55.
I could bend the $55 roll well enough, but found that it has low
"fatigue resistance"... it breaks at the bend easily. Yesterday, I
got the last panel up
...
I've had the columns for 30 years or so, Salvage from some
old Southern house. I got the capitals with them and had to
make the bases myself.
Anywho... whew!
-Mike
