Repairing Shallow Rot Damage In Solid Wood Siding
A rectangular cut is made in solid wood siding, and a new piece of wood is glued and screwed in place. While remodeling and repainting an old garage, I found one small spot where the redwood siding had some rot damage. Luckily the decay was ... [... more]
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Pine Siding
Remodeling with wood siding, adding new siding below existing material. Tongue-and-groove siding is installed to cover two short new wall sections. This garage originally had two sliding wood doors. They were miserable. They didn't keep much ... [... more]
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Replacing A Single Panel Of
Using a special $4 tool, a section of vinyl siding is pulled up. The nails are pulled from the siding piece below, and the section is replaced. The front of this 9-year-old house had a small chip in the vinyl siding. Even though the house was ... [... more]
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Replacing Old Wood Siding and Trim
An overview of the steps in replacing old wood siding with fiber cement, and using cellular PVC to replace deteriorated wood trim. Old houses with wood siding require frequent repainting. This is accepted as a There are new materials available ... [... more]
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Repairing A Leak:
Repair of a leak in a roof / wall junction, caused by improper attention to flashing details. We peel away some vinyl siding to find the source of water intrusion. Then we use sheet metal and special flashing to improve the water resistance of ... [... more]
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Removing Old Wood Siding
Article about demolition and removal of wood clapboard siding from an old house. Old wood clapboard siding is ripped off, thrown into a trailer, and hauled away. Before siding can be replaced, the old siding needs to be removed, sometimes. I have ... [... more]
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Preparations For New Siding - Adding Foam Insulation
Article about preparing exterior wall for new siding, such as foam, tar paper. Once the old siding was removed we spent a few hours doing some important preparation work. The main purpose of this work is to improve the insulation value of the ... [... more]
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Building Traditional
Article about re-creating old house water table trim with synthetic lumber. New water table trim is fabricated from Azek cellular PVC trimboards and fastened to the house. The water table trim is the white-painted pair of boards (red arrow) below ... [... more]
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Installing Fiber Cement Siding
Article about hanging new fiber cement lap siding on an old house. Fiber cement lap siding is installed over a wall with solid wood sheathing and foam insulation. Nailing methods, cutting techniques, solo installation ideas, and boards with ... [... more]
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Building Traditional Window Casing
Article about making window casing from Azek cellular PVC trim. After a new construction window is installed, flashing is applied and a custom sill is installed beneath the window. Side and top casings are installed. As part of a bathroom ... [... more]
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Building Traditional Casing
In our garage makeover project we had to replace 3 windows. We wanted to re-create the window trim so it would look like the original, or at least look like the other old garages and houses in the neighborhood. One of the windows I installed was ... [... more]
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Installing A Vinyl Siding J-Block
One panel of vinyl siding is lifted up, some nails are removed from the siding panel below, and a notch is cut in each piece of siding. A J-block is nailed to the wall and the siding is re-fastened. In the old days, whenever vinyl siding was ... [... more]
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