{"id":1091,"date":"2009-10-09T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T18:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tom-nan.com\/2009\/10\/09\/termite-damage\/"},"modified":"2009-10-09T12:41:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T18:41:01","slug":"termite-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/09\/termite-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Termite Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well this was a setback!\u00a0 We\u2019re trying to improve the house a bit.\u00a0 The bottom of our steel garage door was severely rusted. It is 40 years old and I decided to replace it.\u00a0 We bought a 165 mph door to put on as a replacement.\u00a0 The 165 mph door requires some extra bracing around the door opening requiring me to remove the old bracing.\u00a0 When I pulled the 1x4s down I found some old termite damage.\u00a0 Tracing the damage up the wall studs into the header and the top plate of the wall.\u00a0 We removed everything that had damage, including the top plate. a six hour job has turned into at least a 2 day job.\u00a0 We\u2019ve completed demolition and started putting the replacement lumber in place.\u00a0 Here are some pics of what we\u2019ve got so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc-0320.jpeg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4139\" \/><figcaption>Termite Damage: Main garage Header<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc-0319.jpeg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4140\" \/><figcaption>Termite Damage: Header Splice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc-0322.jpeg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4142\" width=\"610\" height=\"404\" \/><figcaption>Termite Damage: Some removed boards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc-0327.jpeg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4143\" \/><figcaption>Termite Damage: Part of main header<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc-0332.jpeg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4144\" \/><figcaption>Termite Damage: Opening looking north<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dsc-0330.jpeg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4145\" \/><figcaption>Termite Damage: A really secure garage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So that\u2019s how things were last night when we were finished.&nbsp; I will post some images of the reconstruction in the next couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this was a setback!\u00a0 We\u2019re trying to improve the house a bit.\u00a0 The bottom of our steel garage door was severely rusted. It is 40 years old and I decided to replace it.\u00a0 We bought a 165 mph door to put on as a replacement.\u00a0 The 165 mph door requires some extra bracing around &#8230; <a title=\"Termite Damage\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/09\/termite-damage\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Termite Damage\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}