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Thank you! It's been a good house in the 2.5 years that I have lived here, no issues whatsoever, not even flooding in the basement during historic rainfall events.
That's our house restored ColdAilment. Yes I agree you have a Four Square. I hope this gives you some inspiration to pull off that siding. I don't think your front porch was enclosed originally. Ours was screened in and we ripped that out right away. I have some pictures of the interior of our house in my photo album with period stencils, wall paper, and historic traditional Arts and Crafts colors.
That's our house restored ColdAilment. Yes I agree you have a Four Square. I hope this gives you some inspiration to pull off that siding. I don't think your front porch was enclosed originally. Ours was screened in and we ripped that out right away. I have some pictures of the interior of our house in my photo album with period stencils, wall paper, and historic traditional Arts and Crafts colors.
I think you're one of the only ones in here suggesting to pull off the wood siding!
I will flip through your album when I have some extra time, thank you for sharing, definitely trying to get some more ideas on what to do!
I think you're one of the only ones in here suggesting to pull off the wood siding!
I will flip through your album when I have some extra time, thank you for sharing, definitely trying to get some more ideas on what to do!
I think he was speaking about the siding enclosing your once open porch, not all of your wood siding by the pictures of his similarly sided house but I could be wrong.
I live in a 1942 Cape with wood and aluminium siding. The wood is in terrible shape because the previous owner did not keep up with the paint. It needs to be repainted every few years. We will be residing this summer and we're replacing all of it with vinyl. We can clean vinyl with no trouble. We are not about to spend thousands of dollars every 5 years to have our house repainted. Almost every house in our neighborhood has been resided with vinyl. It's cheap and easy to maintain which is a big deal in snow country.
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Originally Posted by turf3
It's your house. But instead of paying thousands every few years, you could spend a hundred or two every year, and do one side a year. It's not that tough or time consuming. On the other hand, I can understand not wanting to do it at all.
I have a 1300 sq foot house, 1.5 stories, not old, with wood siding and it costs $4000 to $4500 to have it painted. I, like many people, am not capable of painting it myself. When I moved in here in VT, my neighbor told me it needs to be done every 6 years. That is a MAJOR expense.
Maybe the hundred or two every year that you speak of is just for the paint?
Yes, if you do the one time investment of a couple ladders, brushes, scrapers, etc., then each year you do one side; a couple hundred bucks ought to cover primer and paint. This assumes you can get up on a ladder and scrape and paint. If you are elderly or disabled, obviously you will have to pay someone. The major cost is labor.
If your life is flat out busy and you have no time, but you have some money, it is certainly a valid choice to choose to pay someone to paint your house.
However, if you are of normal physical condition and average intelligence, you are "capable of painting it [yourself]". You may have valid reasons to choose not to do so. I am capable of changing the oil in my cars, but at present I choose to pay someone else to do it. I am capable of preparing my own income tax but at present I choose to pay someone else to do it. If I needed to fell a 60 foot oak tree a foot in diameter, I am not capable of doing it and therefore I would have to pay someone.
FWIW, I live in NE Ohio, which probably has weather that is more similar to that of the OP's stated location. I had my house painted--cheaply--in June of 2013, to appease the city code enforcement people. It wasn't even scraped, just power washed, before the new paint was sprayed on. And, the paint is still holding up pretty well, almost 5 winters later.
With the milder Midwest climate, a good paint job, with good prep, can probably last 10-15 years. I also think painting one side per year is a good way to make the cost more bearable.
A good quality vinyl siding is .040" thick (2/5"). Not 1/8".
.040" vinyl siding is actually the cheapest, thinnest crap you can get. "Decent" vinyl is .043-.044, and "good" is .046.
Also, .040" is 2/50", not 2/5".
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