Repairing stuff

This is something I've been doing over the last few days (I took some time off work over half term). This is the gap between our house and our neighbour's, which has our side passages, and doors and fences at the street end, all of which were very rotten. The first picture shows the rotten fencing and also shows how the beam which goes above the two doors has rotted completely through in the middle (because the gutter on the roof behind the doors was leaking - you can just see a bit of this roof in the picture). It also shows the trellis on the ground, which pretty much fell off when I'd removed all the rose (the stump of the rose is on the right) and ivy which was covering it.

 

The second picture shows how it looks now, with new trellis (I couldn't buy one the right size, so I made this to fit) and new fencing, new shiplap fascia boards above the doors and new tongue-and-groove fence panels, all pained in grey undercoat, waiting for a final coat of black gloss. What you can't see is the new beam running above the doors from one side to the other, the repaired guttering and the join from the fascia boards to the roof behind to stop water getting in.

 

It's been quite fun doing this. My neighbours get back from holiday this weekend so it'll be a nice surprise for them (don't worry, they knew I was going to be doing this).

Done