Winter 2008

Bay Roberts Summer Home 2018: (18Photos)

18. Dad purchased the Bay House in 1999 and made perfectly clear that it's available to my brother Steve and I any time. This weekend Sandra and I finally got to take Dad up on this generous offer and headed to Bay Roberts for a couple days.

17. Dad's bucket of "Chip" clips we found poked in the cupboard.

16. Its been 18 years and the workbench still hasn't been cleaned off, which is funny because Steve and I always got blamed for the untidy workbench while growing up at home! LoL.

15. After a nice game of Bingo in Tilton Friday night Sandra and I got up Saturday morning and headed to the Bay Bazaar for a look around. We spent the rest of the day checking out a few yard sales and some shops in Carbonear before dropping back to Iris's House for supper.

14. One of my first projects at the Bay House was to replace the rotted out step to the back Garage, and build a step for the back door of the new attached garage.

13. I picked up materials in town and built the step to the rear door at home in Torbay.

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11. I built a frame from pressure treated 2x4's and decked it over with 4" x 5/4 deck boards using a picture frame design for a nice clean appearance.

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9. In August I headed out to the Bay House for a few days early in the week, Sandra was working so it was a solo trip this time. My plan was to install the back door step built at home then build the garage steps in place after tearing out the old lumber. The lower step took the worst of the weather, the top was sturdy but I wanted both to look fresh and identical.

8. I re-used the notched out 6x6 posts and replaced the frame with all new 2x4 pressure treated lumber.

7. The top step was finished exactly like the one going into the house, both are 30" deep.

6. Rather than having the lumber sit directly on soil, I dug down and placed 2 x 12" square patio stones in place to keep the lumber off the wet soil which should help prolong its life.

5. Similarly I placed two 12" blocks under the legs of the step. The old step rotted from the bottom up, hopefully this will prevent the same from happening again. All of the end cuts were treated with preservative to further extend the step's life.

4. That evening Dad, Iris and I headed uptown to watch the fireworks put off by the Town of Bay Roberts celebrating Klondike Days. It was a pretty damn good show!

2. Dad has been busy building a new garage at Iris's house, In June Maffer, Bassan and I headed out and helped install roof trusses for the hip style roof.

1. Having completed the steps at the Bay House on my August trip, I decided to stay out an extra day and give dad a hand with the new garage. He's made pretty good progress with the roof sheeted & shingled, 1" foam installed outside, and all the windows, door & overhead doors installed. Today we tackled piping for water, electrical & low voltage cables. A contractor came in and dug the ditches, Dad and I fitted & installed the PVC conduit.

Cheers, MIKE