If you recall, I had put in a temporary Lexan port when the port window cracked.  I decided to just make a temporary repair because we had intended to replace the coach-house wall last spring, but didn’t get to it.
I now need to do it in the next couple of months and I have my confidence and motivation back.  But the other day we had a really heavy rainstorm and there was water running in pretty hard from the port.  It turned out to be that the teak outer skin had come loose from the rotted substrate and it pulled the port out from it’s spot.

This led to a pretty big hole allowing the water in.   I went ahead and cut and removed the port and then cleaned up it’s mounting surface as well as all of the chalk sealant off the lexan itself.

I then cut some small wooden frames from 1/2″ plywood as my temporary mount and sealed the port back in it’s place with butyl tape on the inside mating surface as well as between the lexan and the outer frame.  I installed some screws through pre-drilled holes to keep the frame from splitting.

This is by NO means a permanent solution but is a good test and only needs to do the trick for a month or so before the whole wall comes out and gets glassed over and painted white.

See the video below along with some cute footage of the grand kiddo singing into a toy like a microphone.  She is a cutie pie.

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