...until you remove it.
I feel like I'm beating a dead horse but because the weather is not cooperating, we have not been able to do anything outside since last Wednesday when the tree trimmers from Precision Tree and Shrub trimmed our trees.
I was able to get one top coat on the two pairs of shutters for the library windows on the front and south side of the house. I really want to get these shutters hung before the paint gets bumped or scratched while they are in the game room/current work room.
We have two projects that we are going to build and use outside. I have all the parts except for the wood, but our scrap wood pile is so depleted that we are at a standstill until I find the right size wood for free. Then two days ago, I found that wood right there above the current scrap wood pile of 1 by lumber. Our 2 by scrap lumber is stored in the barn and R is guarding that lumber like it is gold. Don't get by his stash....LOL
But back to the new found scrap lumber. While we AGAIN looked through the 1 by pile, I just happened to look up and a light bulb went off in my head. Isn't it weird how you can just overlook something that is right in front of you?
Above our heads was what I thought was a faux boxed in beam. Why I thought it was faux/fake was because there were fake beams just like this one in the kitchen before we removed them. This fake beam was constructed of true 1X6's. Three very long 1X6s. These 3 boards will make both of our projects.
R was thrilled that I wasn't going to change my plans and make the two projects out of 2 by lumber. We got out the ladder and a Wonder Bar and started prying and prying and prying. The euphoria was slipping away very fast. We pried a small slit of an opening so that R could get a cutting wheel in there to cut the nails. Finally when enough nails were cut, we could finally see inside the faux beam and inside the faux beam was a real steel beam. Oh crap.
This is how projects on old houses spiral out of control. Every piece of drywall or plaster or wood that you remove, could reveal either horror or nothing. Kind of like Schrodinger's cat. Until you remove the board, what's behind the board can be both a horror or nothing at all. Remember when we removed the old shingles on the east side, only to reveal another layer of shingles with live wires stapled to them? We expected nothing at all but instead we found a horror.
We will not know how to fix this metal beam problem until we remove the plaster and drywall ceiling so we can see the entire picture. But right now we just want those 3 pieces of wood. Of the two projects, one can wait but the other is time sensitive and I need to build it before June 21st.
Only one board has been pried loose because the other two boards are held in place by plaster on side and drywall on the other. So tomorrow we will try and get another board down after we hang the two sets of shutters, if there is time.
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