Tearing out the rot and starting with a clean slate.

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More before. This is the back corner, street side. It's kinda hard to tell how much the overhead was sagging, but you can see the water damaged framing, and the buckled, warped, decaying paneling on the street side.

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With the back window out, the splitting and warping of the paneling was more evident. The little square under the window was added by the previous owners when the paneling got too rotten to hold the support for the window shades. 

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The overhead seam near the vent showed us more ugliness.

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Here's a shot of the back bottom corner with the new paneling installed. Clean and crisp.

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Street side rear corner where the new paneling meets with the still sound old stuff.

Here you can see the same corner with the new overhead panel installed.

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The back corner and overhead, all brand new and clean.

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This part of the project was kind of head-scratching challenging for me. A lot of measuring and remeasuring, and dry fitting, and cursing and recutting.

I am no finish carpenter.

But she looks pretty damn good to me, and it feels great to get the rot and mold out and have a good solid substrate to work from. Maybe not beautiful yet, but sound.

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Namaste.

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