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Updating the House

Got rid of the old siding.....The first pi shows the old stuff......
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Finished!!
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Great job! I bet it's refreshing that the house doesn't look like it's slanting, as the diagonal siding may have made it look haha

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The diagnol stuff had a purpose.....This house was built in 1963.  The reverse gable on the left hand side was almost 4 inches out of level from one side to the other.  It was BUILT that way.  Someone messed up royally.  I had to build the left side down to match.  It is now perfectly level.  Every time I rip into soething on this house I find band-aid repairs.....Most have been addressed.
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good job, grass looks good too btw wish mine was as nice :(
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Well isn't that the cat's ass. ;)

Nice job Pauly. My dad installs siding for a living. He's the "house beautician", as he calls it, because he gets to cover everyone else's mistakes. Don't worry, your house wasn't the exception, it was the norm. ;)

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Don't worry, your house wasn't the exception, it was the norm.


Oh believe me,  I know.  I worked construction from when I left the active Air Force until I got on the PD.  Next year is my shed.  The old one has seen better days and we are outgrowing it.  The roof will follow.

Next on the agenda for this summer is to hang a door on the back patio and it's finally complete!  After that,  I'm gutting the master bedroom.....Not looking forward to that!

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grass looks good too


Best lawn on the block!  The first picture is actually from about a week before Halloween last year.  Stayed green until about late December.
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Quote from: V8Demon;224868
Every time I rip into something on this house I find band-aid repairs.....

Try it with a 100 year old house ;)

Looks great. Vinyl siding does to an old house what 10-holes or turbines do to a T-Bird or Cougar originally equipped with spoked wheel covers. Best bang for the buck cosmetic upgrade there is  :roxor:
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Nice job, I do a lot of siding too. Its kinda fun.


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Try it with a 100 year old house ;)

Looks great. Vinyl siding does to an old house what 10-holes or turbines do to a T-Bird or Cougar originally equipped with spoked wheel covers. Best bang for the buck cosmetic upgrade there is  :roxor:


Here you go 105 years old.
All original cedar siding.
I took it all off trimmed all the bottoms, flipped it over and put it back up. then I used solid color stain on it.
I didn't have the heart to cover it all up and loose the detail of wood trim.
It took 3 years. 1 side left
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Siding pfff. In Chicago we all have brick houses like mine. Tis nice to not have to worry about siding ;)




BTW looks nice :D
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Nice job, I do a lot of siding too. Its kinda fun.




Here you go 105 years old.
All original cedar siding.
I took it all off trimmed all the bottoms, flipped it over and put it back up. then I used solid color stain on it.
I didn't have the heart to cover it all up and loose the detail of wood trim.
It took 3 years. 1 side left

This from a guy that rebuilt a fox Cougar from the ground up :D

J/K... House looks great. Unfortunately when I bought mine the original cedar siding and wood soffits had already been covered 20+ years ago with vinyl (siding) and aluminum (gable ends and soffits). The cedar is all still there under the siding (I had some of it off when installing the patio doors) but it's in hard shape and full of nail holes. Even more unfortunately that vinyl siding is the old 8" stuff that looks like poo and is stained, broken, buckled, and all that stuff that comes over 20 years or so. It's supposed to last forever, but mine needs replacing in the next few years...

Back to Paul's house: I think I see what you meant by the gable end being out of square. You can notice that the tip over the door goes all the way to the bottom of the piece of siding while the tip on the other end only goes to the top of that piece. My house is full of stuff like that. At least with siding it's easy to hide/overcome stuff like that. You wanna try hanging drywall on un-square walls. Makes for some interesting cuts...
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1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

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Siding pfff. In Chicago we all have brick houses like mine. Tis nice to not have to worry about siding ;)




BTW looks nice :D

Bricks pfff. When my house was built, it was built with materials that came off the land it was built on, by the farmers that would eventually live in it. They even made their own nails (and wooden pegs for the posts & beams). Anything not available locally was brought in by horse & buggy or steam locomotive (there's a CN rail right-of-way on the other side of the river that borders my property - the tracks have been gone for 30 years). Bricks were not an option :hick:
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1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

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Quote from: Thunder Chicken;224937
Bricks pfff. When my house was built, it was built with materials that came off the land it was built on, by the farmers that would eventually live in it. They even made their own nails (and wooden pegs for the posts & beams). Anything not available locally was brought in by horse & buggy or steam locomotive (there's a CN rail right-of-way on the other side of the river that borders my property - the tracks have been gone for 30 years). Bricks were not an option :hick:


same situation here. Living on a island in 1900, everything had to be transported on a ferry across the Niagara river. a couple miles Above the Niagara Falls. most of the house was shipped. It was probably not cheap at the time, but the house I live in was one of the largest dairy farms in the area. they had a few bucks and owned a large portion of the island. that was the reason for the oak trim in a farmhouse.
so as a landmark and being one of the few original houses still standing, I decided to restore it back to its original era.
although it didn't always look the way that does now.
yes, this is the same house


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Pretty much every panel on my 87 is new, rebuilt, or re constructed. :D
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You wanna try hanging drywall on un-square walls. Makes for some interesting cuts...


Unsquare?  How 'bout an octagon tray cieling?  Done that!

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I think I see what you meant by the gable end being out of square.


If you compare the finished pic to the other one that shows the gable and take notice of the window underneath in both pictures you'll really see it.

Daminc,  I like the restored coler scheme much more on your house!
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