As you may recall from earlier posts, much debate centered around the fate of the carbuncle of a push-out window in the living room. Finally, frugality won the day, and the push-out stayed. But last September, Tropical Storm Hermine came through Austin. (Typing those words feels funny, since rain is pretty much a foreign concept here, these days.) And Ms. Hermine's waters poured through the push-out window and into the living room.
See the buckets? Not good.
Another fierce debate ensued over the carbuncle's fate. But again, frugality won the day. Fixing the push-out window is less expensive by a factor of ten. And factors of ten count. So, trusty handyman Kevin installed some new fiber board in the interior and fixed the push-out window's roof, which, it turns out, was never properly shingled in the first place (shocking, I know). And so, for a couple of months, the window awaited its finish-out and looked like this:
And finally, after my painting and Chad's carpentry:
