Shutters!

Well, it was another action-packed weekend.
Not really.
It was a "getting my crap together" weekend.
I needed to follow up on my new-to-me car and get it a sticker Saturday (check.) Then I came home and tidied - straightened up the shed, cleaned the first floor of the house, put away a ton of tools that had accumulated in the dining room while I worked on the stairwell. Put stuff back in the new-to-me car that had come out of the old one. Gathered up all things that needed to be laundred for the next day. Then I took the shutters off the house. They were filthy, and I thought it would be easier to scrub them on the ground than bobbing and weaving around on a ladder.

Before - with shutters.

After - without shutters. And Holy Wasp Nests, Batman.
Luckily none were currently occupied.

The scrubbing. Before and after. This one shutter took about an hour of scrubbing.
After trying out a bunch of stuff (borax, oxyclean, magic erasers, et all), in the end,
CLR mold and mildew remover and Magic Erasers did the best, fastest job.
For a moment I considered just replacing them, but looked it up and at the size I need them
they would have been over $100 a pair. Hruumph.

Nice clean shutters drying in the sun. They are not uniformly clean, but they are better.
I think it will look fine from the road.
That vinyl hangs onto crud like no one's business

Oh. Hey.
BTW, CLR will eat (or at least discolor) the brand new seal coat on your driveway.
*sigh*

I kind of like it without shutters. I bought some of the house wash stuff that you screw onto your hose
and gave the front of the house a bath before I go sticking the shutters back up. I'd given thought to leaving
them off, but the siding has faded so you can see the shadow of where they were.

Sunday I woke up and took myself out to breakfast (a rare treat). From there I hit Home Depot and then the laundromat before coming home to mow the lawn. (I should have hayed it. Three weeks was 1.5 weeks too long.) Hung out the clothes to dry and finished with the scrubbing.

I talked to the guy at my local hardware store (Koopman's) and I need to pull a permit for the shed roof, and get him a sketch so that he can give me a price on the materials. I'd really like to button up the shed for good before winter. I'll see if I can afford it.

In other news, the Mold Men come this Wednesday! Yay, more expensive home improvements I will never see!