Recapping from the last post, I left off in eager anticipation of our garage sale. You can see Evan here as he posed with one of the many load that made their way into town. The statistics? Three weekends of preparation, 10 hours of prep work, 10 hours of sale, and we ended up with $300 to show for our labor selling a quarter of the precious things we took. Not bad!
I did learn that father's day weekend does not make a good weekend for a sale. Weather was perfect, but the traffic didn't turn out as expected. So I figured it is because everyone went to see their daddies! Regardless, we made good money for things that were on their way to Goodwill, and in the end Goodwill ended with some 38 boxes, as embarrassing as it is to reveal that, we did take 38 boxes full of things to Goodwill.
At the end of the last post, Shawn had just finished with the soffit and facia for the front bedroom. So the next step was to work on the siding. The first thing to do was to re-do the Tyvek.
And this is what a wall covered with 3’ wide pieces of Tyvek looks like. It works the same, you just have to make sure you shingle-lap it and tape the seams.
Then my father in law came back for some more torturous work, and he helped Shawn with siding the front over a weekend back in June. The siding that we used for the front bedroom is still fiber cement siding, except we used the kind that when finished, it will look like shingle siding, rather than lap boards.
Here you can see Derald as he worked on painting the pieces, which may be one of his favorite jobs. :)Then the labor of mounting those pieces up began. It is quite a messy job, specially when cuts have to be made, and the guys make sure they have their PPE (personal protective equipment) to keep from breathing the dust.
Which I’m sure one day will be in the same boat as asbestos and be illegal, since it is bad to breathe in.
Installation for the shingle siding is a bit similar to lap siding, in that you need a 1 ¼” starter strip.
Then you need a solid board for the first run, since when you put the shingle siding on top, you need to have something behind it to cover under the slots.
You only need this on the first row, since the shingle siding pieces are designed so that when the next row goes on top, the previous row provides the solid backing for the shingle slots.
You can better see what I mean here:You can see the solid siding off to the right, that is underneath the first row of shingle siding.
When the next row goes up, only the “tab” at the bottom of the shingle siding piece will be visible. And you can see that in the next picture.
The shingle siding comes in three different board "styles" and you alternate the three different pieces so that the end look will be a "random" pattern to the shingles.
But by the time it was quitting time on the second day, the guys had made great progress for a weekend’s work.
My father in law did a great job giving his perspective on this job on his blog:
So you can check it out and see the whole account!
If I can, I’ll get to another post this month, to sort of catch up. I don’t have current pictures, but my father in law did return to finish the job on another weekend. And the front gable is all done! Plus I have more that I need to update, so until next time...
