Mom took this while she was cleaning the ceiling. It was a short day of work. I left for a friend's birthday. Mom and Dad, being the wonderful people they are, worked the rest of the afternoon laying floor and plugging holes with spray foam.
Sunday, Dad and I continued laying floor. We got the kitchen finished. Yay!
While we worked on that, Mom spent her time removing the damaged wall board from over the wall heater. It had bubbled out and was going to need replacing. This is what she found:
The wallboard had actually been on the furnace piping. The constant heat has disintegrated the sheetrock, which is why it missing on the pieces that have been propped up for the photo. Time to figure out how to fix something else. This seems to keep happening.
At about this point, we stopped for lunch and made a shopping list. When we got home, all three of us worked on fixing the gate. Earlier this week, it had been windy and rainy. The wind hates my gate and I came home to discover this:
The wind is just too strong coming off the channel behind my house. It puts far too much stress on the hinges, as you can see. So, we took down the gates and cut them shorter since the above post was clearly no longer good at the top. This involved removing two support bars, cutting planks and reattaching the support bars. Then, we rehung the gates. We then used a bar closure (similar to a barn door). This provides a lot more rigidity at the center where the two gates meet. Hopefully this will be enough to keep the gate from swinging around wildly in the wind and stressing the hinges. The new gate looks much the same, but is significantly shorter than the original. It's kind of humorous actually.
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