CH: Day 98
Paint to the right!
More vinyl to the right! The corner trim (right also) will be painted green. (I will deny saying this: Wow. I have a sudden appreciation for…vinyl. It is sooooo much easier and vastly quicker installing vinyl than meticulously restoring ancient siding. And, no lead poisoning!)
You can see here my cunning plan come to fruition. By painting the west facade mostly white, it will work with the white vinyl siding. Such siding is also on the south and east facades. But by painting small bits in the historic colors the hope is that people will pass by and think: Oh! This house will later match the big house.
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Can really see great progress now Ross! Great job! Glad it’s cooler for you now too so you can work without fear of heat stroke.
It’s looking great Ross. Having just finished painting a vinyl door and window at my home, it may be worth trying to do the same on the vinyl afterwards. I used heavy duty undercoat and good quality gloss on mine and am pleased with adhesion and finish.
Colin
A Colin sighting! Squee!!!!!!!!
Colin, I put vinyl on my 1886 house 3 years ago, and I also painted some of the vinyl trim. The house had been sided in vinyl 30 yrs ago and it was getting ragged; I initially planned to restore and paint the wood siding, and hoped that I could just fill in a places like where windows had been moved with new wood lap and then scrape and paint the rest. Lo and behold, when we started pulling off the old vinyl, we discovered that the owners who installed it in the late 80s had also had blown-in insulation, and there were 2″ holes every few feet, all over the nearly 4000 sq. ft. house. I was sick…we would have had to replace almost every single piece of siding. Not in my budget, so we special ordered pale green vinyl to replicate the color scheme of the J. P. Gwaltney house in Smithfield, VA. We couldn’t find mid-shade green soffit and trim, so all of that we painted. We used Pittsburgh Ultra Exterior latex, no extra primer, in a satin finish; it looks great, and after 3 years of midwest weather extremes, it still looks like new. I think that the main thing is to make sure that the vinyl is clean, and don’t paint it very much darker than it already is; I know someone who painted white vinyl siding a dark gray, and now in cold weather, the siding contracts and their house looks like they went with a prison-stripe theme.
Ingenious plan!
The front will compliment the Cross House. The sides and back will be white. Ingenious solution so you can take your time correcting at a later tome.
It’s like a Potemkin house! In 18th Century Russia, Catherine the Great had a lover General Grigori Potemkin. He had whole villages constructed of houses that consisted of just decorated house fronts and nothing behind. When the Empress traveled through in her carriage, she would see lovely villages with happy villagers waving, after she left the villagers were instructed to dissemble the pretend houses. It was all an illusion.
By decorating the carriage house in this way, you will fulfill the required work. The carriage house will be esthetically pleasing. It will demonstrate your willingness to perk things up.
The carriage house will look tidy. Maybe a little crisper!
All will be well.
Yay Ross!
You once again emerge victorious!
That vinyl will go fast and it does look good. Just step back and squint. The only giveaway is the “slats” are wider but I doubt anyone would notice. You’ll have all of the vinyl up by the time you finish painting that one side.
The best part? No lead. And it is temporary. As easy as that vinyl is to put up, it will be easy to take off when you are ready. And the windows have already been cut/ruined so putting up the vinyl isn’t going to damage them more than they already are.
They goal is to get the city to sign off and go away and leave you alone. Then you can do what you want, when you want and take as much time as you want.
Are you sanding the siding? Maybe you could try using stripper, then sanding what that didn’t take off? That would be a lot less floating lead, but it would probably cost more.
Looking good Ross!