Bye Bye Nasty Siding!

Since rain has thwarted our plans to paint, we got C's dad and bro to tear off all of the aluminum siding under the porch. Since we closed off the duplex's second entry- replaced with round window- we've had a gaping hole in the siding. After considering how we would eventually cover up this hole, we decided to sheath the entire porch underside with cedar shakes rather than try to match the aluminum siding.

It was quite a discovery under that aluminum siding. The original clapboard siding had only one layer of paint- original, 125 years old. Pretty cool.