Replacing and Painting the Siding

This isn’t the most exciting of projects I’ll admit but I will post for those of you who are interested in the process of my studio. Replacing the siding on the West side of the studio was not in my plans but when Dan and I replaced the logs under the window we ended up removing some of the siding. I tried to make it so I could reuse the old siding but with hundred year old siding on the west side of the building with nothing to break the wind and weather there was no hope. They actually laughed at me when I took an example to the local hardware store to see what they had to replace it. In the picture above the part where the siding is missing is covered with tarp to keep it dry.

In this picture I removed the trim  along the edges and around the window. The trim on the top I left because it was a 24″ board that had more trim over the top of it. I thought it would not be fun to try to replace it if it had gotten broken. When I took the trim off there was old tar paper under it that had disintegrated. You can see the logs and chinking that was under the siding.

This  is a picture of the moisture barrier. The only thing I would’ve done differently about this step would have been not trying to do precision work with a hammer tacker. Some fingers never learn to stay out-of-the-way.

I did manage to get siding to match the other sides of the house. Mom and dad helped me with this project because we were trying to beat the incoming storm.

Finally Dan and I finished painting it just in time before the storm had hit. Painting the outside of a building is one of my least favorite things to do.

Painting was a lot more fun when they thought it was cute that we wasted so much paint.

Dad and grandpa were way more conservative with their paint than Brad and I were.