Siding Fixes

The scraped house was looking pretty rough!  The scraping continued on Saturday of Labor Day weekend, and on Monday we had a carpenter here to fix some boards that were cracked, sliding down, etc.  He was here for 4 hours and got the house done, and a little work done on the garage.

The white boards (on the old part of the house) are the ones that needed to be replaced...

6 boards on the driveway side

The road side of the house needed some more boards replaced because of the patch that we needed where the old kitchen stove was vented.  You can see the block of three boards next to the window below... and then there were four more boards in addition to that.

Happily, the front of the house didn't need ANY boards replaced, nor did any of the "old" part of the back of the house.

The garage needed four small boards on the front, where we installed the light fixtures (come to think of it, I don't think that I ever posted that the electrician finished that up!  Will have to fill that in later!)

The back of this garage needs a lot more work because of the amount of sun that it gets.  I think he said about 6 boards along the bottom will need replacement, plus the back window frames need additional work.  He was going to get additional supplies from the local lumberyard.

We're really pleased with the work this carpenter has done so far!  He showed up promptly at 8:00, as he said he would, and he got all of the above work done by Noon.  We'll be keeping his number handy for future projects!