When I first moved into the house back in January the list of things to do was so unbelievably long that it was overwhelming. As a first timer, I tried to make the right decision on a bunch of things that I had absolutely no experience handling.
For example: The house had no electricity and was scorching hot every night when the sun went down. We had no back doors to where the back porch would eventually be and the guy who started the construction had a couple pieces of scrap plywood down (some of them overlapping seams…whatever would fit) so he could walk around. I decided that we needed to put down something safe (5/8 sheets of plywood) with railings knowing that we would be under construction in the heat for the next 4 months (we are at 6 months of construction today).
We put down the cheapest stuff (non-treated) because I figured we would just be tearing it up to put down decking for our screened in porch. Well, now that we built up the knee wall around the porch (and made it weather proof), and we had enough extra wood…we decided to continue the teak out onto the porch…but we couldn’t install the teak over top of non treated lumber because the termites would make quick work of it down here.
I went to Home Depot in Mayaguez and forked out a bunch more cash to put down 5/8’s treated plywood and build up the knee wall (actually 4ft) and build the jams and jacks for the screen doors. The top half of the porch will be screened in. Two doors…french doors leading straight out to the deck (that will be there eventually) and one off to the right with a lock that will be a back entrance on the second floor.
We really pushed the Toyota to its limits bringing home lumber for Home Depot.
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Poor truck! Although to be fair, compared to some monstrosities I’ve seen here in SJ, it hardly seems overloaded at all