Wednesday, 11/3 Power washing, Sanding, Wood Filler, and Caulk

Today we finished up using the power washer. The only thing left from yesterday was the fence, which took Josh and I about half the day to do. While Josh mainly did that, Parke sanded the exterior trim to prepare it for being painted. I helped with that a little as well.

Johnny filled in some holes in the trim with wood filler and also started caulking. But it started raining too hard and so he had to stop. We ended up going to Home Depot (of course) to get some very heavy duty screws. We are driving these screws in the door jams of the two exterior doors and into the studs on both sides of the doors. The purpose for this is to prevent the door frame from being kicked in. With eight 4 inch screws in each frame, it is very securely attached to the studs of the house. This combined with heavy duty dead bolts will make the doors very hard to get through.

We also went to Lowes to pick up the french doors I had to special order. For some reason they couldnt find one of them, so after waiting around for about 45 minutes we finally were told that I hadn't arrived yet. It was very very frustrating. I also hope to take some photos tomorrow of what everything looks like now, especially the back yard now that the fence is clean. It mostly depends if it stops raining by then...