What home improvement work did you do today?

The siding on the house had reached max fail. After z27 years I was forced to reside the house since LP no longer made the triple 4 that was used in 1998.

I won’t go into all the bad and the issues found but needless say the house now has sheathing house wrap flashing tape and new siding

here’s the after pics.

late June early July from start to finish.
5 days to remove and replace the siding
Then 2 weeks later 2 days to paint.

 

It looks great and should be good for a long time.
I have to do this soon. I am not looking forward to it, but I knew this when we bought the house. I'm still trying to figure out a strategy on how I'm going to approach it by myself.

 

No.
No frost free spigot.
No way to drain it or bleed it back to an area that does not freeze.
How the inspector let it fly, right?
Same with the water heater and no "catch pan" under it which is required (and also pretty useless).
Poorest county in MI, who knows who they have doing inspections.
Cannot complain too loud, besides a couple things this place is awfully nice.

 

I hope it last another 20 at least.

The north wall is where I had the most problems, once the old was off and we got a closer look at everything I think we were able to ID the issue and hopefully resolved it, we shall see.

I used LP smartside 8in x 12ft, since thats what we stock and after bid room I got for $6 per stick. 16ft sticks in the 8in would have been special order and costs a lot more.

I had a tight budget to get this done, went over some which I figured I would, used a lot more nails than I thought LOl.

Key to making this last is to repaint every 5 years. Paint quality has gone down hill for all brands, while prices have increased.