All have better pictures once all the siding is off and they're cleaned up.
Showing posts with label clapboards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clapboards. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Metal corner brackets/bracers
Well I don't know the name for these, but they look pretty nice and cool. This is on the closet addition from 1923. Apparently instead of corner boards like on the rest of the house, they used these metal brackets instead.
All have better pictures once all the siding is off and they're cleaned up.
All have better pictures once all the siding is off and they're cleaned up.
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Stained glass windows
We have 4 stain glass windows (2 mirror image pairs) on our master staircase landing and I thought I'd post some close ups of those.
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Siding removal
Well, aside from the west gable which I have removed most of the siding off of, I also removed some siding from the south end of the house, around back.
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.
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.
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