{"id":290,"date":"2011-11-04T20:21:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T01:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2011-11-04T20:21:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T01:21:50","slug":"new-gutters-and-sffit-for-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"New gutters and soffit for the house"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/New-gutter-by-front-window.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-293\" title=\"New gutter by front window\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/New-gutter-by-front-window-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New downspout by bay window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The installers completed the gutters and soffits on the house.\u00a0 It looks amazing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a small thing, but these tend to add up on a house.\u00a0 We had the standard dark brown soffit and gutters.<\/p>\n<p>I just have a different picture in my head of what I want the house to look like.\u00a0 The siding is bad with lots of holes all over the place.\u00a0 I&#8217;d also like the color to be darker.\u00a0 I want to trim things out in a nice dark barn red.<\/p>\n<p>I have plans for a craftsman style porch on the front that would be useful and inviting.\u00a0 Right now, the front is straight up boring with a very strangely angled concrete step.\u00a0 I want to look at the front of the house and it says welcome home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So the first step is done.\u00a0 We hired someone to pull down the old and put up new soffits and gutters.\u00a0 It took about 2 full days, but thye are done.\u00a0 Now the color might semm bland, but it will evetually help to tie the color scheme together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We also purchased LeafRelief panels for the gutters.\u00a0 Our plan is not to have to dig leaves or sticks out of the gutters again.\u00a0 Right, Rick gets to do that job.\u00a0 After he&#8217;s gone I figured Rich and I would draw straws every year.\u00a0 The new panels means we don&#8217;t to worry about it.\u00a0 Some of our friends haven&#8217;t had much luck with their systems.\u00a0 We have one more tree that needs to drop leaves.\u00a0 We should get a test of the new panels over the next few weeks.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got my fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p>So pictures of the new gutters and soffits were requested.\u00a0 Here they are.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/new-soffit-on-the-eaves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-291\" title=\"new soffit on the eaves\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/new-soffit-on-the-eaves-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New soffit on the eaves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gutter-and-sffit-on-big-garage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292\" title=\"gutter and sffit on big garage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gutter-and-sffit-on-big-garage-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gutter on the big garage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yes, Sascha has free reign of her yard again.\u00a0 She seems happy not to be restricted and is back to guarding against sqirrel attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The installers completed the gutters and soffits on the house.\u00a0 It looks amazing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a small thing, but these tend to add up on a house.\u00a0 We had the standard dark brown soffit and gutters. I just have a different picture in my head of what I want the house to look like.\u00a0 The siding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}