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New Siding

At the beginning of June our contractor started installing the siding. To complete that project he also had to build the side porch.

Before getting into the steps of the project, let’s go over the project details:

  • We are removing all of the old vinyl and cedar lap siding.
  • We will replace it with LP Smartside products. LP Smartside is a pre-primed product that has to be painted prior to installation.
  • We chose DiamondKote in part because this company also carries a special type of LP Smartside product, where they modify the standard shingle siding to have octagonal edges.
  • The colors we chose are: Mountain Lake for the lap siding, White for the trim, and Cinnabar for the shingle siding.
  • These colors are also true to the color choices of the early 1900’s. See this color chart which we found on: http://oldhousecolors.com/
    The colors: Light Gray and Brick Red are very close to the colors we chose for the siding.

The siding project started by removing the old vinyl and original wood siding. Once that got removed, the house has to be wrapped. This is partially a vapor barrier and a vapor guide if any condensation gets behind the siding, this wrap will guide the water down, away from the wall sheathing.

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After the house was wrapped, the next stage was to install the new siding. In reality some of this work was done in parallel, since there was a decent size crew working on this project during the first 2 weeks.

 

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The garage has the most prominent use of the red shingles and the white trim. It also shows off the horizontal soffits and ‘blocked’ facade.

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To the observant eye, you may have noticed a lack of windows on the backside of the house. Do not worry, we have windows planned, but since we use salvaged materials, we need to build the window frames so that we can place them into the framing.

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The new addition now has a window. Our contractor reinstalled a fully framed window that came from the original (recessed) gable.

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What is this front porch missing? Yes, a door! We have not found the right door yet. We know what we want though: A dutch door (one that opens up in two sections).
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Notice that the windows still need to be repaired and painted. That is next on our list. Especially since they now stick out like a sore thumb,

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This is the new side porch. Our contractor did an awesome job (again). Once we have re-graded the grounds around the house, we will get steps built.

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Detail shot of the soffits around the porch and the old roof.
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This picture shows off the red, white, and blue. The color scheme we had chosen for this house.