We started our siding project on Saturday. We got pretty far into it, but we're not done yet. Here's Scott (Kirk's coworker who is helping/teaching us) taking off the first board.
Scott was impressed with the stuff underneath our boards. He said it was high quality and whoever had put up our original stuff did it right. We did not have to replace the stuff underneath, which was a relief.
Kirk and Jeremy have the whole bottom off. Scott is watching from the background.
Kirk and Scott pulled off almost all of the top themselves! (We only had two ladders.)
Go Kirk Go!
Everything's off!
Scott helps Kirk saw the new boards.
Kirk and Scott putting on the new boards. (Jeremy and I were pulling off the stuff from the other side, with breaks for Cathy to run take pictures!)
Lunchtime! Papa John's was having a $5 pizza day. Score!
Side One Done! We still need to paint, of course, but the boards are up! Even unpainted it looks a million times better.
Sarah insisted on supervising.
The old siding.
A view of the unpainted but fabulous anyway siding.
Jeremy and Cathy had been pulling off siding over here, but it was slow going due to all the plants (including a rosebush) and...
The gas leak! Our meter smelled STRONGLY of gas, so Cathy called the gas people to have a look. They told us to stop working in that area until they could check it out. Good thing...
We did have a leak. Here's our old IRON meter. They replaced it with a much lighter and less leak prone one. (no picture, sorry!) Our old one looked pretty cruddy, so it's nice to have a new shiny meter to go with our new siding!
We only went partway up- we'll go back and do the rest next weekend. Everything is covered up, so it should be fine.
Sarah got tuckered out from all the supervising.
We're thinking this will be a Three Phase operation. Hopefully everything will be done next weekend so we can start painting!
