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PainterofCrap posted:I see it around here (New Jersey): hacks installing siding, and they nail the nails in too far/tight, and pin the siding to the sheathing. There has to be enough room between the nail head and the sheathing to let the siding ride back & forth as it expands & contracts; otherwise, it starts wrinkling. When I put the siding on I used screws with pan heads. They go in faster, easier to place accurately, can back them out if they're too tight, and you don't bash your fingers putting them in. The two end walls are overlapped away from the road to hide seams, and the rear wall is overlapped away from the prevailing wind to lessen the likelihood of it being damaged. The dormers won't have any seams as they're short runs. I wanted to do them in vinyl shake siding, but the colour my wife picked (midnight blue) is only available in horizontal dutch (pictured above). P.s. zip saws are awesome for cutting siding and soffit.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Oh yeah, well aware of the fire suppression stuff, but I've never seen it set off because I worked in mostly competent kitchens. Yet all the same I'm probably going to put a commercial style hood with makeup air in my next house because I'd rather clean filters than have a light layer of grease on everything because I like to stir fry. Whatever dumbfuck decided that open plan kitchens and recirculating vents everywhere was the Way needs to be thrown off a dock. cakesmith handyman posted:I can't imagine the construction of those steps that just won't fold down flat when a fat person steps on the unsupported end. Just imagine trying to get someone down them on a stretcher. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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PainterofCrap posted:I hate vinyl siding. But drat, that color looks fabulous, and whoever installed it didn't pin any of it down. It looks great. I was hesitant to install vinyl siding a couple years ago, but the HardiePlank quote came back almost 4x as much as the premium vinyl. I ended up going with near the exact color Blistex has and it looks fantastic in real life. The white trim really makes it pop. It was more expensive than I was expecting (they did rewrap and put a layer of foam board down), but when I figured in the cost of having the exterior painted over the expected lifetime of the vinyl, it was a bargain. I also had the same company install a 8 foot sliding patio door at the same time and couldn't be happier with the whole thing.
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Yeah, not a big fan of vinyl either, but we had to go that route on my house this past year as well. The original 1978 wood was rotting away and woodpeckers were poking all sorts of holes in it, so a new paint wasn't an option. Pretty much anything better than vinyl was beyond our budget. Still took almost 8 months from ordering the job to product installation due to supply line issues. Happy with the final result though. It looks good and it does the job.
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wesleywillis posted:OMG A FORKLIFT!!! ARE YOU FORKLIFT CERTIFIED?? Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHzP4umE4M
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I think a lot of the vinyl siding hate is due to the colours 90% of the houses are decked out in, and the way they're framed, trimmed, and installed. Having lived in Calgary for almost three years I came to hate most vinyl sided houses I saw because they would be head to toe in some drab/bland colour and all of the corners would be the exact same colour with windows decked out in the smallest (cheapest) frames. It was like looking at giant tan/grey blocks with absolutely no character to them. Another problem is that most people see typical McMansion homes with cookie cutter designs and that doesn't help. When my brother and his wife built a place in Tuscany in Calgary, they were only allowed to choose between 30 different colours (across 4 different brands), which were all the most washed out/bland variations on tan/taupe/grey/blue. In reality they had about 5-7 actual colour options when you removed brand overlap.
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Vinyl siding will be fun when your neighbors buys some low e windows. My main hate of vinyl siding is when I see it on older housing, it always looks fake as hell. Honestly, I wish they'd stop putting that fake wood grain texture, it isn't fooling anyone.
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nm posted:Vinyl siding will be fun when your neighbors buys some low e windows. It's also to hide any scratches or imperfections which would be obvious if it was smooth, matte or even slightly textured. Someone suggested painted wood siding for my house and I just imagined trying to repaint, or having to pay someone to. Not good. Anyway, I'm happy with it.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:06
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Vinyl siding has definitely gone through some improvements in the last few years. They offer sturdier versions or even integrated foam insulation-backed. It doesn't look as nice as other options, but vinyl is worth it for the no-hassle factor. Basically zero maintenance for 30+ years, and can be repaired easily if damaged. Hit it with some bleach and soap every once and a while and it'll look brand new. Painting your house (siding) is outrageously expensive.
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I always wondered why stucco is more popular in the southwest. Does wood/vinyl siding not do as well? It’s always a pain in the rear end trying to attach anything to the side of the house. If you wanna run a cable outside or mount a flag you gotta bust out the masonry bits and tap on screws.
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FCKGW posted:I always wondered why stucco is more popular in the southwest. Does wood/vinyl siding not do as well? Stucco is very very popular in the northeast for cheap rear end big box development houses because it's cheap as poo poo comparted to anything other than T1-11. I think that's the thing you need to understand about stucco: it's cheap.
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It's not cheap if your house is 100 years old and covered in textured stucco and a big chunk falls off the front and you have to pay a specialist to match the texture.
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Well yeah, but everything is stucco around here, it doesn’t matter the price. Even custom builds that aren’t a master planned community or whatever are going to be stucco, unless it’s somewhere in the mountains I guess.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:It's not cheap if your house is 100 years old and covered in textured stucco and a big chunk falls off the front and you have to pay a specialist to match the texture. 100 year old houses aren't the same stucco at all that I think we're talking about here. Also, even a modern house with lovely cheap to install stucco is going to be expensive to match. It's not cheap to own, it's cheap for the lovely developer to install on their lowest bidder builder grade shitboxes they are selling. Which will never make it anywhere close to 100 years before having to be torn down.
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I hate vinyl siding because of how poorly it blocks sound transfer from the outdoors. the brick areas of my house are much quieter than the vinyl areas. and the creaking sounds the vinyl makes when the hot sun hits it on a cold day are obnoxious.
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Fantastic idea (he said sarcastically). However, i bet a whole house whipping around in 22 seconds is a hell of a thrill ride.
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titty_baby_ posted:
Looks like a lovely dominionist church building
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D34THROW posted:Fantastic idea (he said sarcastically). However, i bet a whole house whipping around in 22 seconds is a hell of a thrill ride. 
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My 1909 house has vinyl siding (we bought it like this). Having grown up in the suburbs I had an aversion to vinyl siding as well, but I actually like it on this house. One of the things I realized that makes Vinyl siding look crappy is the overlap on long blank runs on new houses. My old house, with it being small and windows and doors all over the place, doesn't actually have many long runs where a 12 foot piece isn't long enough, so there are very few of those overlaps, and so it looks a lot better than what I'd expect Vinyl to look like. Plus no maintenance because I'm lazy AF. Maybe in 20 years we'll do something different, but I'm quite happy with it for now.
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You guys are making me want to put vinyl siding in my lap board house. Just encase it like a lovely faberge egg.
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I have a ton of overlapping pieces but no one will ever know unless they go into my backyard since they overlap away from the road. Even cheaper options can look good if you plan ahead of it, install it properly, and try and balance it with other siding and finishes.
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https://i.imgur.com/R4X8T4I.mp4
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I wish I had a mirror here so I could have watched my own expression fade into depressed resignation. gently caress that.
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Why would you paint that?
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8one6 posted:Why would you paint that? To make it look “more modern.” poo poo there’s someone in the small questions thread right now asking how to unfuck a painted brick fireplace.
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Jesus! $5 says they carpet or paint the treads and landing.
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Cyrano4747 posted:To make it look “more modern.” I'm the utter and total lack of dropcloths, masking, and in general protection of all other surfaces.
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Saint Freak posted:[url]https://i.imgur.com/R4X8T4I.mp4[/]  That's supposed to say crytype but you can pretend I am in my crypt, typing burning missives about the sanctity of wood.
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8one6 posted:Why would you paint that? And, if you’re going to paint it, do literally no prep to make sure the paint sticks, so it will lift immediately after a few hands fun along a thing meant to have hands on it. Blistex posted:Jesus! No bet. It’s a given.
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I just noticed on like the 10th viewing the stair tread that has also been painted grey. I'm gonna choose to believe this is a troll video just to maintain sanity.
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Cyrano4747 posted:To make it look “more modern.” Absolutely this, I'm currently helping my sister strip a painted fireplace. As we started digging in, discovered it's actually bricks made of 2 different colors of granite. Absolutely gorgeous, and some idiot just slapped avocado green paint over it (plus 30 years of other colors in layers).
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I'm very sorry but I'm not gonna not use it if I've spent all that time puzzling out how I possibly still could.
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My Lovely Horse posted:I'm very sorry but I'm not gonna not use it if I've spent all that time puzzling out how I possibly still could. It takes you that long to think up "piss in the hole?"
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What's so hard about pissing in a hole in the wall?
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*hanging upside-down dangling from the ceiling Mission Impossible-style, absolutely flabbergasted by a hole in the wall*
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LonsomeSon posted:*hanging upside-down dangling from the ceiling Mission Impossible-style, absolutely flabbergasted by a hole in the wall* 
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new cabin just dropped https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10-Mercury-Dr-Joshua-Tree-CA-92252/2070196265_zpid/
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Pretty sure I built that in Fallout 4.
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