Finally got the siding for my house

[autobodyman]

Today. Some of you may remember a couple years ago I redid the roof on my house and was going to side it the next summer, just couldn't seem to come up with the funds. Finally decided after 2 summers have gone by to cash in a mutual fund that wasn't doing a hole lot and try to get this done before I get to old ;D

Anyway, the siding came in today. I was pretty impressed with the driver, he got this into my wood shop without damaging my building. The boom was within ½" of the top of the door but he never hit anything.

Sure took a fair amount of real-esate out of my woodshop.

Originally I wanted to use cement board siding, my sister-in-law had gotten some I liked and I tested it by tossing a piece behind my woodshop for 6 years (full sun, laying under the snow etc...) and matched it up against her house where the sun never hits and it was perfect.

Went to order the stuff and my contractor sales guy said they no longer carried that because their supplier wouldn't warrant the finish. Figures, they had some other cement board siding but the two tone stained stuff was only warranted for 12 years, so he showed me some stuff that is basically chip board with a two color stain/paint that looked almost the same, said it had a 7 year unconditional warranty that included any labor, and 50 year replacement warranty that just covered the siding with no labor and it was $1,000 less than the cement board.

I've been around long enough not to have to many delusions about warranties beyond 5 or 10 years (got some landscape timbers 25 years ago that have a 50 year warranty for all the good it would do since the company that sold them to me isn't around anymore). My contractor sales guy did say though that the 7 year labor included warranty was even if the siding just faded, guess I'll see.

Anyway 152 16 foot long pieces I need to put up, probably take me all summer but that's okay. Got my HF framing nailer and 5000 bostich 2½" galvanized, cement coated, full head nails (Insert Tim Allen grunt) and till Winter comes back around to get this done.

~Mike

[dicklaxt]

You need to get Caj to come help.you all can knock that out in 10 days. ;D

Really a nice looking shop my friend.

dick

[TDHofstetter]

Pretty good shootin' with that boom!

The delivery guy around here has a teeny forklift hanging on the back of his truck. He carries the load in my barn door & can turn it around inside the door.

[autobodyman]

Took me 3 days to get this far, course had to rebuild part of the bottom of the bay window, a bit of rot from before we built the roof over this part of the house.

I don't know if you can tell, I've been trying to pattern match the siding so each section looks like it's from the same board (horizontally).

It will probably take me most of the summer to get the entire house done. Outlet boxes all need/needed extending still need to replace a window on one side of the house have to figure out how I am going to deal with my electric meter, phone and cable wires. Our weather forecast is for rain Friday threw next Tuesday so that may slow me down some too. Oh well as long as I get this done before Winter.

I do like the looks of this much better than the previous siding.

What do you think?
Thanks ~Mike

[Joe Lyddon]

Yes, I noticed how you're matching the grain...

Awesome job... did the lumber come pretty well matched sequentially on grain?
(Don't tell me you laid them all out on the front lawn to get them picked out just right! ;D )

[fredbelknap]

Mike I like it. Your house is going to look great.

[art3427]

I have a tendency to let projects like this drag out longer than anticipated. Several years ago I came up with a sure fired plan to "encourage" me to complete what I've started. I always do the first work as far out of sight from the front of the house as is possible. From there I work around until all that is left to complete is the front. By this time I'm usually running out of steam. This is where my wife kicks in and refuses to give me a minutes peace until I complete the front also.


It ain't always nice, but it works.

art

[sawduster]

Looks really nice, Mike. I like the idea of no painting. ;D

Round here we get insurance discounts for masonry exteriors, and the cement board classifies and masonry. Gotta paint it, though, at least the stuff we've got.

[brburns]

Looks real nice.

[CajunRider]

Looking good Mike.

[sdb777]

I like the way that is turning out for you! Will really do a lot for the entire 'look'!


Question: What is the round column on the corner?(type of wood)




Scott (my backyard sucks) B

[Leo Voisine]

Awesome Mike,

Do you every do anything small?

[sawduster]

Apr 25, 2010 5:43:17 GMT -6 Leo Voisine said:

Awesome Mike,

Do you every do anything small?

Seems I recollect a train that was a lot smaller than the ones you see running down the tracks. ;D

Between his and CjRs projects, I get worn out just reading.

[autobodyman]

Apr 21, 2010 23:03:46 GMT -6 Joe Lyddon said:

Yes, I noticed how you're matching the grain...

Awesome job... did the lumber come pretty well matched sequentially on grain?
(Don't tell me you laid them all out on the front lawn to get them picked out just right! ;D )

Joe,
Not really, I've been having to dig threw the stack to match the patterns. This side of the house is probably the only side I will mess with pattern matching, it's the one we spend the most time by.

Kind of a pain digging threw it too, there are 5 boards per layer with foam between the layers to keep from scratching the prefinish.

Thanks ~Mike

[autobodyman]

Apr 22, 2010 9:20:58 GMT -6 sawduster said:

Looks really nice, Mike. I like the idea of no painting. ;D

Round here we get insurance discounts for masonry exteriors, and the cement board classifies and masonry. Gotta paint it, though, at least the stuff we've got.

It's actually not cement board, it's like wafer board with a sealer and two color paint. I looked at the cement board, even tested some for 6 years. I went to order that stuff and my contractor said they quit carrying that because the company wouldn't stand behind the finish, figures.

This stuff has a 7 year warranty on the finish and a 50 year warranty on the siding itself. It was also $1,000 less than the cement board.

Thanks ~Mike

[autobodyman]

Apr 24, 2010 6:17:33 GMT -6 sdb777 said:

I like the way that is turning out for you! Will really do a lot for the entire 'look'!


Question: What is the round column on the corner?(type of wood)


Scott (my backyard sucks) B

The support posts for the roof are just 14" diameter peeled pine logs sitting on top of a column of concrete and rebar that I poured after digging down to the bedrock (only about 4 feet down) and are connected to the concrete by a 1¼" piece of rebar with 3/8" thick U shaped iron welded to the rebar, bolted threw the logs.


Thanks ~Mike

[autobodyman]

Making some slow progress on the siding, all these angles (around the bay window and upper beams) seem to take me more time to figure out than they probably should.





Guess I'm just to big a candy A$$, 34° and snowing this morning, don't feel much like working on it in this weather. I lack about 6 boards to reach the top. Then I'll be ready to caulk this side.

Working on painting the outlet/switch covers green, thought that would look better than the standard gray covers?

Still have one window to replace and 3 other sides to do. Making some slow progress though. Supposed to be better tomorrow, 46° for a high and 22 mph winds. Got all summer to get this done.

What do you think?
Thanks ~Mike