We are making ready for the external footings to be dug in a couple of weeks. One of the tasks was to remove the back porch. The porch was made of poured concrete, so we couldn’t have it in the way of the footings.
We had built a temporary set of stairs from wood so that we could still use the back door. Both my dad and I estimated that it would be a fairly simple, relatively quick task to break up the concrete and to install the temporary porch. At most, we thought, we would need to go to the rental yard and get a full sized jack hammer.
We started to work on the porch with the Makita Rotohammer, but went to the lumber yard and quickly got the Bosch Brute demo hammer. We even told the rental clerk that we would probably have it back in less than 2 hours.

Our timeline was way off. We eventually got the cement porch out and the wood porch in, but it was much bigger than a 1 hour project.

3
hours into our 1 hour project The
rubble from the porch filled the entire bed of the truck The
temporary porch and happy smiles

After VS Live, we had a single work day on Saturday. We did a bunch of little projects that needed to be done (like finally remove
the story poles). Don and Camille were still at our house, so we had an extra pair
of hands. One of the projects we did was to add some siding to the new garage wall.
We used some of the left over siding from Uncle Ted’s addition, so we didn’t have
enough to complete the side that day. Before After