Gameroom French Doors Install Part 1

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But guess what?  It wasn't snowing or raining and so we started the patio door install.

 Yesterday (Monday) R removed the old, rotted, and extremely ugly patio door.  This back room is currently our workroom but will ultimately be our gameroom.  If old school video games are your jam, stay tuned for some gaming action.

We have 4 upright videos games.  They are Tetris, Defender, plus we have an empty Stargate cabinet and a board so there will be a monitor install in the future.  We also have a Mr Do upright plus we own all the other boards including a bootleg Yankee Doodle Do who eats oil barrels and is chased by terrorists.

And finally we have Elevator Action which is sort of a rarer game.  It came to be when they converted Jungle Hunt/King into an Elevator Action by changing the graphics.  The controllers and game layout are the same.  I am guessing that they felt that there were a lot of jungle themed games and that is why they changed.

We also have a Japanese Mr Do slot machine.  We plan to add a cocktail table MAME that has 1500 games.  They still want big bucks for the cocktail table Ms Pac Man so for the same money we can get 1500 games or one or two games with the traditional cocktail table version.

We also have a 1930's era Brunswick pool table that we will restore.  In the past we shot a lot of stick but I dislike going to billiard halls because people do not know the correct etiquette and it totally throws my game off.  Looking forward to fine tuning my game.

Enough about video games.  Let's talk french doors.

And let's not forget the roof.  We are very pleased with the  results.

The french doors still need some tweaking.  We ran out of daylight and stamina. Tomorrow we will square everything up and install the new door handles.  And if everything goes along without a problem we may even start the trimout.

 I cannot wait until I can paint the shingles grey. 

Reuse Repurpose Recycle 

Game Room Windows

We have moved on to the game room exterior.  The old inappropriate windows were removed and replaced with the same restoration windows that we installed in the kitchen.

The window opening on the right was already there but the window on the left required making an opening and framing it out.  The hardest part was making sure the opening was the same distance from the door and the same elevation as the opening on the right.

Yesterday we started the shingle installation.  But before we started hanging shingles we nailed a roll of aluminum flashing under the tar paper at the area where the exterior wall meets the deck.  We decided to add the flashing because snow piles up against the shingles in the winter and we wanted to make sure that moisture doesn't wick through to the interior wall and insulation.

I am always surprised how much better the windows look with shingles around them.

We already have the two exterior lights that go on each side of the patio doors.  We also have vintage French doors to replace the ugliest sliding doors on the planet.  

Tomorrow we will build the step in front of the patio door.  It's going to be big because I have two 20x20 square planters that I planted with Alberta spruces years ago and I want them to sit on the step.  The reason we have to build the step before we move on is because the step will need to be screwed to the sheathing and then we will shingle around the step.

Elvis says he "loves to nap on steps" especially if he can be in the way.