The gutters won't be fixed until Monday at the soonest, but I can show what's happened so far now.
Here's a picture from Thursday, showing the "possum" vent now securely covered by a new pressure treated wood frame and solid screening. The crawlspace was a bit deeper than the feared eight inches. There was a wide concrete foundation, which you can see in the image, then the crawlspace starts at the plastic. They did replace one major support down there, and they crawled under the house through that hole.
The new subfloor. The lighting was so bad they had a high-powered light outside aimed at the work. It would have been nice to have some sun.
New sheetrock. My guess is that they will leave it like that, allowing us to paint it to our tastes. They did say they would put in a patch floor over the subfloor, though...
Done for the day, they blocked up the area with heavy plastic sheeting. And a good thing they did, too, because we ended up having a ton of rain overnight. Hmph. "One hour of light showers" my shiny metal a... anyway.
Friday morning, they put up the boards under the siding, then started putting up the siding itself. The board sticking straight up in the left of this image is the board they rigged up to keep the rain off them while working.
Here's the inside after the patch floor was put in and the wall mud was applied. After he did this work, he said he'd send somebody over to put in some finishing touches once the whole thing was completely dry. It doesn't match up perfectly, and we'll have to get a floor expert in to put in new hardwood at some point, but I plan on throwing a nice rug over it and not worrying about it until we've recovered financially from this hit this one gave us.
Behind the door, up in the bedroom, the guy did a VERY nice job, almost matching it perfectly with the siding that was already there. I decided to not take a picture, because it's pretty boring. But it looks good.
And here's what the outside looks like now. Definitely a far cry from the final picture of my first set. We need to paint the house sometime. Just one more worry. I'm thinking it might look good in a different color. A green or something. I'd like to paint it dark green, but I bet there's all kinds of reasons why that's a bad idea. In any case, the new siding is solid. I watched them put everything in, and once the gutters are fixed, it's going to be very nice.
Ah, the gutters! While a couple of guys worked on the siding, a couple more started work on the gutters. Now, I don't want you to get the wrong impression about hubby-Eric here. He cleans out the gutters regularly. But the plants that are growing up there are called "Herb Robert" aka "Stinky Bob", and they will grow in a centimeter of pine needles. Seriously. These smelly plants grow ON MY VAN. Overnight. They told us not to bother cleaning the gutters until they came to do the work, so the plants had plenty of time to get big. Despite that, they have almost no roots, so they aren't a big problem.
Anyway, the damaged part of the gutter is in the middle of the second picture, and it's from where a branch from one of the large trees in our yard came down. The gutter split and spills right down onto the cement below. I have been trying to find somebody who specializes in gutters for some time, but apparently they don't advertise!
Here's a picture from Friday. The damage is clearer in the second picture, despite the rigged up protection. It was still leaking water, just not as fast. You can see that somebody else once made an attempt to divert water from the back by making a sub-gutter that flows to the side of the building. There is absolutely no drainage in the back at all, so when they replace the gutters, they plan to put all downspouts on the sides.
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