Quick brief: I live in a 1980-built 1600 square foot ranch style house with brick veneer in front and what used to be T-111 siding on the back and gables of the house.
When the house was built, the exterior cladding was tar paper over the framing and then T-111. In the past thirty-three years, the T-111 rotted and so did the tar paper.
So you get issues with water and bug intrusion and a lot of issues with air sealing, because tar paper doesn't do much to stop air from exiting the structure.
On top of that, we replaced a lot of the windows because the wind would blow and curtains inside would move.
Side note: I would NOT use the Hardi trim again, and actually, stopped using it halfway through the project.
I would stick with natural cedar trim.
Another thing that's worth noting is that if you select a contractor grade paint, note that it's meant for spray application; if you roll it on, you will need something to cut it a little bit so that it flows without bubbling, like flowtrol.
the ones at lowes were fine for us because we've been gutting the rooms anyways so we were able to reframe them in
my only project is helping dad redo the tile backsplash in the kitchen - (pictures i posted this morning) new countertops should be in by now so just need to repair the walls and start fresh tonight
I went into Lowe's and gave them a rough opening measurement, and they were three inches smaller than the rough opening and had the weep holes on the wrong orientation. I was NOT happy.
Turns out that at two or three places in the production process, they "shrink" the measurement that the customer gives them to "make sure" they'll fit.
@ChrisCudmore I'm not sure that they would understand if you told them "approximate" -- that word has too many letters, and ain't nobody got time for that.
While I wait for the flooring guy... there's another friend I've been helping because his attic hatch fell out of the ceiling. It was only held in by 16 gauge finish nails.
@ChrisCudmore Thinking of putting tile in most of the house. There's... issues. I'm seeing if it'd be more cost effective to let someone solve those issues for me.
@JNK I'm sorry. I'm glad you home school. :( I went to high school in Avon.
Oh, I guess he did pay someone to do the plumbing.
And the drywall
I did the electrical.
The fascinating thing that we found with the floor though is that he has moisture issues through the concrete. That's why self-leveling cement didn't work.
So you'll note that he destroyed the bathroom in like march of 2011... we tiled the shower starting march of 2012 ... and then the project got put on hold again and we didn't work on it again until march of 2013.
I have another friend who thought he could do the same thing ... their master bath has been empty for that long after I ran into Serious Electrical Issues. At least we've made progress with THIS project.
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