CH. Day 2
Yesterday.
Today.
I know, you are thinking: What did Ross do all day?
It seems hard to believe that you are looking at three hours of work.
I had to round up all the tools nails screws and materials.
I had to clean up the bottom edge of the wall.
Over the the far right, bottom, the sheathing was no longer attached to anything. I pulled it out, and had a view of the basement. That is bad. I thus had to fashion a new triangle-shape sheathing bit, and add backing support by going into the basement.
The new 1×8 outer base board proved too wide (what was I thinking?) so I had to rip it down to 4-3/4-inches. With a jigsaw. That is the white board lower right. Then the jigsaw battery died while ripping the rest of the base board. Sigh.
Atop the base board is a metal Z flashing. I needed the metal cutter to finish off the flashing (left) and spent a full half-hour looking for it. To no avail. Sigh. In the end, the base will get covered by the new porch.
The new lap-siding needs a beginner piece along the bottom edge so it sticks out properly. I used some old lath but its bottom edges needed to be wire brushed and then primed.
The vertical corner board (left) and inside corner board (right) I carefully stripped of old paint, and then lightly sanded. First though I had to carefully place some plastic on the ground to collect the old paint.
It is always time consuming getting the first steps done. Tomorrow will be mostly….squee!!!!!!!!…installing new siding. And this should go quickly.
Should being the operative word.
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Set up is always so time consuming and of course there’s always one thing I can’t find. Tomorrow will be very productive. Stay positive, you can do this.
The first time I had my house painted after I bought it, they spent four weeks prepping. It was painted in a few days. Priming the house and garage, then painting the main, then trim and a faux treatment of the pillars on the porch.
Preparation is time consuming and at times boring. But it makes all the difference. Once done the finish is fast and the results superior to slap dash.
I hope the city gives you enough grace to do some of it right the first time so that will save you some work when you go back to do it again.
The reason the prep took so long on my house is that they simply power washed the alligatored paint, they didn’t use primer and they painted it when it was still damp. Quickie job for a sale. It it looked it. When *my* guys were finished the house looked 25 years younger.
With you all the way. Hang in there.