No More Porch

Remember last month

when the husband spent 7 hours trying to remove this?

BEFORE...

It was a great effort by the husband with his little jackhammer.

In the end we decided to call in the professionals.

THE TOOLS

THE PROCEDURE
I can't say for sure what the procedure was.
I was out running errands for part of it

and I was in the house for part of it.

I did notice it was very loud and the house was shaking...

which explains the crooked picture.

As I mentioned, the husband worked for 7 hours.

My buddy Craig and his son worked for 4...

AFTER...

D asks the question, What are a husband's responsibilities around the home and yard?
Answer: It all depends upon your point of view.

Tomorrow we move on to removing a very large tree.
NOT one of the husband's responsibilities.

Jackhammering the Crooked Porch...

BEFORE...

If you look at the bricks at the top of the picture below you can see where the porch once was and how far it's dropped over the years.

We are replacing it with a wooden deck to match the wood trim on our house.

THE TOOL

THE PROCEDURE
The husband headed to The Home Depot to rent the tool.
He got to work right away...
I think he started around 9am.


To the left is the beginnings of the new wood deck.
I'll post more pictures of that another day.

We thought this would be a 4 hour project...



Unfortunately, 7 hours later, we were still left with this much porch...

AFTER...

To clarify--we won't be getting rid of all of it.

We just need to remove enough for the deck to fit over it.
After 7 hours of jackhammering the husband is walking like an old man.

He's going to let his back and neck heal and then he'll continue jackhammering next week.

D asks the question--Now, what are the husband's responsibilities around the home and yard? One Saturday evening at a banquet, Marion D. Hanks commented that he had spent the afternoon around his home "honey-doing". When questioned as to what he meant, he said, "Oh, it was 'honey do this' and 'honey do that'.

I don't think jackhammering the porch is a responsibility of a husband.

He's going above and beyond the call of duty to make sure the wife gets her new porch in time to decorate for Halloween!

I owe him, big time!