Please excuse the clutter, this is our back porch and we moved everything there for spring cleaning just before this began.
The before shot:
First removal:
Original beauty of the clapboards exposed once again!
Notice the missing bead and cove molding from the fascia board and in the section adjoining the verge board with the eaves. I also discovered (not pictured) that we had a beltline around the house just above the bottom verge board (which is not visible due to this modern porch being constructed above it's level.) I do plan to tear off this back porch (which is rotting due to inferior building practices and modern wood and recreate the back stoop which it originally had.
The strange thing is it seems someone painted the eaves (latex over the old chipped paint
Ah, more joys of siding! All the muck and debris that finds its way into the siding only to rot your wood!
The window side, sadly with butchered crown molding and sill corners. I will be having replacements made for these
I have no idea what would have been here!!?
These flimsy siding nails, about 1/3 of which the heads which are paper thin broke off forcing me to nail them flush with the clapboards as I coudln't remove them once the heads broke/
A profile shot of the bead and cove molding that was removed for the siding. For some reason this section had the moldings butchered very badly, in other parts of the house they just covered over them. I have no idea why this side was butchered so severely. Other parts are only missing sill corners and crown molding.
A cracked clapboard - most likely when the siding was put on. sadly the piece was not to be found :(
A view of the brown paper over the sheathing boards. Until this can be repaired properly, I put duck tape over it for the time being to keep the water out.
The old cracked, blistering paint from 1923 showing the original gray Victorian paint underneath.
An original brush hair still stuck in the paint after nearly a century!
Unfortunately my cheap heat gun won't take this paint off, so this project is more or less on hold until I can get something better like an infrared paint remover or something. And paint scrapers have had limited success.
The old paint is probably linseed oil based. Heat is pretty useless to remove that, these paints only gum up. You could try making your own chemical stripper, the cheapest recipe I've found is simply lime putty and oil soap (equal parts). From what I've read you don't need real lime putty but bagged lime mixed with water ist just fine. Neutralise with 2% acetic acid.
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