We should finish getting the siding on this place by Friday.


New type to me. Looks like wood but is made of some type of masonry material. Pretty damn unforgiving stuff

 

Is it made of concrete? A bitch to cut?

 

It's not hard to cut. Throws off a cloud of dust when you do and smells like concrete but is flexible to a point. You can drive a nail through it fairly easily without pre-drilling but the corners also crack pretty easily. If you screw up putting a sheet in place and try to pull it back off the nail heads may well pull through.


It does look pretty good in place though and really looks like wood from a few feet away. Supposed to be no maintenance involved other than hosing it off.

 

I hung a bunch of Hardy Plank once and I tell you it sucked from sun up to sun down.

 

We're doing this on a house that was basically built onto a much older structure more than doubling the size. Working on the older part sucks. There is nothing plumb or square about it and getting the siding to line up with the new part is a cast iron bitch.


As much as a 4" difference in wall height in 24' in the old part..

 

Wow, that's pretty bad....

 

The foundation was off level from the day it was first built probably 80 years ago at least.


Rough sawn lumber on the exterior walls that runs thick and thin. May even have been hand sawn with a buck and pit..

 

Evenin Woods! What a day...busy on all fronts. Breakfast for dinner was good and now hoping I get to sit for a few hours and do absolutely nothing but TOAK and watch a movie

 

Kinda like this, but they are using a whip saw in this photo

 

Evening Mark