Oh, The Horror
Gasp.
Today, the vinyl siding was delivered.
Yes, I wrote that.
But tell nobody! It will be our dark secret.
The revised plan is to use the…choke…siding on the north wall, the east, and the north kitchen wall. On the latter I had planned to restore the area around the kitchen door, and paint it in the historic colors. But I am now gonna just vinyl all of it, baby.
This will offer three vital things:
- Satisfy the Violation Notice
- Not poison Ross
- Go quickly. Quickly is not a word I ever associate with the Cross House. I am eager to embrace the concept regarding this particular project.
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“No poison Ross” is the best one!
I agree, not poison Ross is optimum.
Relax, take a deep breath (but far away from the led paint) close your eyes and think of violation notice satisfied.
Quick, easy and TEMPORARY. No one has put a limit on how temporary. I’ve had some temporary stuff around my house for a decade or more. Some of it actually does finally get done or redone.
With all that done quickly you have three walls that have been done slowly with care. The siding can face the neighbors. Hopefully the neighbors that complained.
Just think of how far you’ve come, moving the windows and door and such. That much closer to opening the Carriage House as a source of revenue. With the outside done, temporarily, you can move back to getting the insides ready for paying customers, transient or semi-permanent.
Just keep repeating your new mantra: temporary, temporary, temporary.
Not poison Ross here is the key. Our ancestors cursed us with the prevalence of lead paint, it’s not always within our capacity to reverse their mistakes quickly and we can’t poison ourselves trying to do so.
Indeed do the best thing for Ross. There is some gentle concern about the building being able to breathe. Do you have lathe and plaster on those interior walls? Might there be – hopefully not if it’s lath and plaster – insulation also? That combination is unhealthy for the building, long-term.
Blessings to you and your beautiful project. Hang in there!
Hi, Marilyn! The Carriage House has mostly plaster/lath walls. No insulation.