The next day, the scraping started. The sides of the house were worse than the front & back...
They started on the garage:
And also started scraping the well house:
The biggest change is the shutters came down.
The shutters are purely decorative, plastic, and we definitely aren't putting these back up.
We are going to see how the house looks without shutters once the painting is done.
If we decide we want/need shutters, we'll get them made so that they are real, functioning, properly sized, and historically accurate.
Here's a before photo, with the fake shutters in place:
And here's with the shutters removed:
We've still got a couple of days of scraping, sanding, and power washing. Plus the carpenter will be here on Tuesday to make some minor repairs on the well house where we removed some old lighting fixtures & the garage where a few clapboards are loose & a window needs fixing.
The painter said it will be about two weeks total (that was before the hurricane was forecast... so we'll see how the weather goes!)
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