Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Wrenchmensch on November 24, 2011, 02:45:36 PM
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Well, we finished replacing the 33 year-old cedar T-111 siding (7sheets!) that had rotted bottoms because the builder had rested the sheets on a horizontal drip edge. We removed soffets, soffet vents, downspouts, corner boards, the old drip edge, and framing around a window and a door just to get to the siding. Four Man Cave friends of mine contributed a pickup truck, semi-skilled labor, some know-how, a lot of patience, persistence, and good humor. The Certainteed fiber cement sheets (80+ pounds each!) are cedar grained, and will be a durable replacement.
This Thanksgiving I am very grateful to have friends like these!
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That is a professional looking job, must be a nice view from that door. A guy needs handy friends.
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Most of our building and home repairs around here have been done that way. It is a blessing to have family and friends that will help.
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John K:
Yes it is a nice view from that south-facing sliding glass door. Pennsylvania Beautiful stretches away through our woods and beyond to a large meadow the deer like to graze in late in the year, then over the divide between the Delaware and Susquehanna basins and on to the Mason-Dixon line and beyond! The woods we live in hold deer, raccoons, opossums, screech owls, great-horned owls, pileated woodpeckers, and red-tailed hawks. The smaller passerine birds, the ones my friends from the deep South call Dicky-birds infest our woods - wood thrush, rufous-sided towhees, and veerys, in late spring and summer, massed cedar waxwings foraging through the honeysuckle bushes in the Fall, ground-loving slate colored juncoes, northern chickadees, tufted titmice, and nuthatches through the winter. The prevailing winds beginning in mid-spring are the south south-westerlies off Chesapeake Bay, smelling of stirred up muddy bottoms caused by heavy flows of the Susquehanna as it washes Pennsylvania into the flooded estuarine waters of the Chesapeake.