its the little (outside) things

Today, we did some focusing on the outside of the house. The old girl has a couple holes, gaps, etc that generally make her not super airtight and with the coming winter, we were anxious to shore things up In particular there are some holes near the porch, some gaps in the soffet, and some corner pieces for the siding that are coming loose. So today we went to menards and bought caulk, putty, new corner pieces and went to work (well, Matt did most of the work cause I got called into an issue for my day job, but I got to help some with the last bit)

He patched some holes (before and after)

Caulked the soffet:

And finally, fixed the corner pieces on one side of the garage (this is the part I got to help with)
The before here isn't pretty. We're totally missing the bottom piece and the others are just bent to silliness. Which means we were probably getting water in where it shouldn't be, definitely not good.

We were lucky enough to find almost exact replacement pieces at menards

So we stripped off the old ones

Cleaned out the gaps, and put the new ones on following some directions we found online. Not too difficult really and it came out pretty nice. Matts tickled pink about it.

Now all we need to do is paint! (oh, and do the other corners of the garage and the house, but hey, at least we got started)