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I woke up to 33° this morning. Granted, there’s a high of almost 70°, but it’s definitely coming.

Updates. Battens are mostly done so I started on pulling the rest of the old siding and framing the eves. I threw on the flashing on the back side temporarily. It started sprinkling on me but there’s a factory sealed edge over the front door. The temperature started dropping and the wind picked up. Chance or rain… maybe snow?… tomorrow.

I love seeing consistent updates on this truck again!!

Technically before my time, but I know and appreciate the reference.

Boards are starting to go up. Battens and trim to follow.

Winter is always watching! We got about 1/3 through the pile today before running out if stain. They only had two gallons sitting in the shelf at our local Sherwin and the juice just wasn’t worth the squeeze to run down the hill on a holiday weekend.

Thanks! Feels like a real tipping point to get the majority of the steel work done. My wife asked me to take the day off tomorrow but I compromised with her staining boards with me instead. Next weekend, rehanging the old siding should go fairly quick being it’s all straight cuts with only the windows to cut around.

… then I moved all the old siding down the hill for tomorrow’s staining party. My plan is to get the three sides of the house done before opening up the remainder of the siding.

Looks great in its new habitat!

Almost done making up numbers to get some straight lines on this old house. The roof over the kitchen… is what it is. There’s a bit of a “wow” in the middle but I suppose if matches the roof line on the back of the house. The gables are getting kind of a slate blue siding. Kind of tough to capture, but it’s blue. Turning into a big project for such a little house.

Nice! About 56000 years ago at this point (2008? 9?), I drove from MN to Detroit for a pow-wow at Pete’s. Made a few stops along the way and one was at Brent’s place. Got mine direct from the source!

New siding going up.

I’ve got the tan and green long sleeve like Mike’s. Still in great shape and still in my usual shirt rotation!

Looks great!

Looks like a great space to start with!

Found some interesting past framing decisions between the main part of the house and the old porch/now kitchen. Spent a bit of the morning cleaning that up. Once that was up to snuff, I started running the nailers for the steel siding. Ran out of material and ran out of gumption for the day.

I got chased around by the rain yesterday again. Managed to get the eaves along the front side of the house finished up and the fascia trim hung. Made a plan for working around the breaker panels too then drew some lines to get a real idea of where things are going. Blue, brown, and browner. The CJ was a champ yet again with bringing home material for the steel siding nailers. Didn’t get that far, but I’m ready to start ripping down lumber and attaching it to the walls. … and of course the lumber yard was out of 12’ 5/4. 16’ is fine but less than ideal for getting home.

I got chased by the rain all weekend. Managed to get the other gable end closed up and the siding off the front of the house though.

Wow! GREAT looking truck!

So… about that. My plan was to get going on siding sooner, but we all know how that goes. While I started this a few weeks ago, it has been slow going. The eaves have always been open on this house and there was evidence of some prior rot along the back of the house. I’ve been reframing, closing things in, painting the new panels, and then trimming the fascia with steel flashing. The gable ends were still wearing the split log siding from 1947… it did its job. The logs were shrunk, splitting, and you could see the deteriorating tar paper house wrap. I still have the other half of the eaves to go, but I think I’ve got a good jump on things. The plan is to replace the split log siding with a blue corrugated steel, add a 42” brown steel skirting, and then to recycle the majority of the board and batten siding.