Oh, Tragedy!

Somewhere on this blog I've called my house "the ugliest on the block." But oh, woe, my next door neighbors are competing for the (dis)honor! ... . "You have siding now." "I mean, aluminum siding. We only painted the house two years ago ... asbestos siding on the house on my other side. Now I get aluminum on this. Damn. Officially, it's none [more...]

Date: 2007-08-02 22:33:29
Blog: The Sow's Ear...

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Project HAVE-YOU-LOST-YOUR-MIND?!

This week we took on a teeny tiny project in which we RE-SIDE our entire house. No, not RESIDE in our house... RE - SIDE. As in, rip all the existing siding off, and put up NEW siding. As in Hello! What were we THINKING ... with those words...) Currently half our house is stripped down to the bare wood and tar sheets [more...]

Date: 2007-09-25 05:08:00
Blog: Absolutely Bananas blog...

Ever since I found out that

Ever since I found out that it's good for old guys to walk around ... definitely doesn't burn clean. With $2,500 worth of cedar siding, some of those $15,000 houses could fetch ... siding that still festoons so many houses and garages. Now that smoking is illegal, it's time to make [more...]

Date: 2007-08-28 17:10:37
Blog: International Falls Dai...

Another Lazy Day - Answers

Friday I asked everyone to delurk and ask me questions so that I might have something to blog about ... cedar siding on his house and while he was researching sealants he called a log home manufacturer ... there's a chance for an answer this time!! I love the siding on your new house - I've been looking into doing [more...]

Date: 2007-09-08 14:38:25
Blog: Another Chance Ranch...

Black Eyes and Drunk Promises [closed]

Basic Shaasskah training Late Immanis, 14 PF Quote: The house was situated on leeward side of a bluff on a bit of acreage, ... with furniture, both comfortable and well worn. Inside the cottage, there are three main rooms ... room from a kitchen dining area. An overly large master bedroom fills the southwest side of the house [more...]

Date: 2007-10-14 08:04:03
Blog: Aelyria ...

Morning Lineup - September 16

Morning Lineup - September 16 Hiding In The Smoke - part 2 Yesterday we preached to the choir (HERE) ... on the effects of vinyl siding on closely-built houses.  Read this quote from their preliminary report ... 16-foot structures clad in vinyl siding that simulated neighboring houses. The outside walls for each [more...]

Date: 2007-09-16 11:27:20
Blog: Firegeezer.com...

More about me

3 years. My house will be paid for in 3 years. Well, a little more than that because it’s the summer of 2010 ... to do is invest in vinyl siding. I had thought about getting the house painted but house painting costs an arm and a leg. Vinyl siding isn’t cheap either but it looks better and lasts longer [more...]

Date: 2007-04-15 18:38:36
Blog: My Thoughts...

Just In From Crazy Victor: Blonde Jokes

Just in time for the weekend! Two blondes were doing some carpenter work on a Habitat for Humanity house. Carol, who was nailing down house siding, would reach into her nail pouch, pull out a nail ... bad hailstorm. Her car was covered with dents, so the next day she took it to a repair shop [more...]

Date: 2007-07-13 22:04:14
Blog: Armed & Christian...

Jerry day.

Today is Jerry day. When I was little, my brother once hid hot sauce in an ice cream cone and gave it to me ... and camped out up there for a week. It took him almost ten years to finish remodeling his tiny house ... control and smashed into the deck on the side of the house. I was in the, uh, bathroom on the other [more...]

Date: 2007-10-11 14:33:31
Blog: Julie R. Neidlinger: Lo...

90 Days Later...and in the PINK!

Remember this?? It was exactly NINETY DAYS AGO that this bulldozer broke ground on our land ... for Christmas. There is just a little bit of brick work left on the front, which should be finished by tomorrow: Next, the siding guys will finish the rest of the house with white siding. Our white posts [more...]

Date: 2007-10-11 01:39:37
Blog: Tiggerlane, the Neophyt...

wednesday oct 10!

Wow, it's kinda been a busy week so far. haha, not really...I haven't done much of anything, just keep the house clean.. ... !! The only thing better than a house built of wood with no aluminum siding, just paint, is a stone house [more...]

Date: 2007-10-10 18:52:22
Blog: thoughts...usually with...

The Haunting of Half-Assed House

(An aside before we start: why did Erik refuse to eat a single bite of our dinner, including foods he normally loves, ... the curtain tie-backs or refuse to hang the siding properly. I’ve long referred to the house ... for her house, but has to beg and borrow everything from light bulbs to labor. My dad will agree to something [more...]

Date: 2007-10-13 01:00:47
Blog: Queen of Rambles ...

Progress Made!

Busy week! At work anyway......over the weekend we got siding up on the side we tore up a couple weeks ago ( ... too many leaks; it was old and cheap. So there's a gleaming new Kohler "Forte'" faucet ... , one to go.....the other side is falling off the house in chunks, so I'm assuming it is in worse shape. Side [more...]

Date: 2007-06-19 01:48:56
Blog: The (Big Square) Money ...

Making Good Color Decisions

Making Good Color Decisions Sep 19th, 2007 by bmeglis Lots of you are painting houses out there and want to know how to choose a color for the ... (and one that’s based on good design experience) is just what you need. Posted in Brick house, Decor ... siding and trim. Hopefully, you’re finding some of the blog entries helpful. I am happy to answer [more...]

Date: 2007-09-19 14:23:34
Blog: Your Home & Color ...

The first 7 days of India - Delhi, India

Jump to the full entry & travel map Delhi, India The following entry is actually an email written as a collaborative effort of our group ... us to our guest house. On the sides of the streets we saw people sleeping, fires burning and ornately ... not in the comfort of Canada anymore. At around three am we reached our guest house called Likir [more...]

Date: 2007-10-08 17:09:42
Blog: Travel Blogs | Travel J...

Gutter panes

Over the last week we’ve had two guys out for quotes- for gutters and downspouts and to replace all of the broken glass ... of my head I think it was around $175. Once we make some headway on the vinyl siding for the little house ... under the delusion that we/he/his dad/who ever, not a contractor, could replace all of the broken window [more...]

Date: 2007-09-30 03:35:42
Blog: The Berry Patch...

El Garagiola

El Garagiola Mini update on garage project. Carpenter has a couple of other jobs keeping him occupied during the week so it’s just weekends for ... is completely enclosed and covered with roofing felt. The black felt contrasts nicely ... colored vinyl siding to match the house and garage. And “OSB” stands for Oriented Strand Board, which [more...]

Date: 2007-10-07 03:53:53
Blog: Thoughts-0-Dave...

Time Passes

This is my 594th post. WOW, do I really have that much to say? Not really, but it is a good way to spew. Life is pretty quiet right now ... to haggle a little bit. Currently we are trying to decide on shingles. Our house has white aluminum siding ... gutters and a gutter guard! Yeah, no more cleaning the gutters. We have tons of mature trees around [more...]

Date: 2007-09-27 22:37:56
Blog: The Trials of Trace in ...

Vinyl Siding for your House: It’s Not What it Seems

Some love it, others hate it. Architecture at About says It’s inexpensive, low maintenance claims to last, won’t rot or flake, ... well and thus may cause higher energy bills as well. Also be careful: installing vinyl siding ... types of siding. You can expect to get 25 to 50 years out of vinyl siding.” Don’t forget too, that vinyl [more...]

Date: 2007-06-20 01:27:58
Blog: Behind the Walls : sha...

Best of intentions

I really did intend to post more often after my last post. But, well, life again. Work really has been keeping my busy ... of them will actually happen, I don't know. We're getting quotes on siding for the house ... to be able to exclude them from the kitchen - and the back door). The bathroom also needs a paint job [more...]

Date: 2007-10-07 19:45:37
Blog: ThotSpot...

End of the week

I realize it isn’t the end of most people’s week…but since tomorrow is my only day off I intend to go out and celebrate tonight ... ?  When they are done I can paint what they did (fixed nails that have popped back into the house from moving the siding and fixing the drywall that is missing around the 3 new windows) and put [more...]

Date: 2007-10-11 23:37:17
Blog: Fucking retarded - a s...

How Much Is That Moose In The Window?

Anita Ovard wanted to see more wildlife so she moved to Idaho. I don't think she expected that a moose would break through her sliding glass doors. Ovard opened sliding glass doors on the other side of her house then ran and hid until the moose left. Here's what a Fish & Game warden guessed the cause to be. The moose had two babies nearby [more...]

Date: 2007-09-07 14:50:00
Blog: Skittles' Place...

Dream Garden

I didn't get much writing done last night, but I did spend a fair amount of time just kind of sitting on the couch, thinking ... . He planted everything; I don't think I ate store-bought vegetables until I was 11. We had tomatoes ... in the hose or the faucet on the side of the house. Dad made peach and strawberry and blackberry [more...]

Date: 2007-10-09 16:00:47
Blog: Okay City...

A quick knee trembler

It's good that i've done this whole renovate an old house lark before because, to the untrained eye, the upstairs 2 floors look a total disaster ... for the electrical wiring is almost done, the central heating pipes are going in, the carpenter has finished about half the windows and one full side of the house is now painted its shiny new red [more...]

Date: 2007-10-08 20:04:41
Blog: Corrugated City...

It's like a David Copperfield trick!

Rodney Rogers, a 66-year-old Ohio man, has been arrested and charged with vandalism and aggravated menacing ... involved in a title dispute: he "sawed the entire house, through siding, drywall and windows, in half ... . Seem that he had entered into an agreement with the Bowers, friends of his, to buy a house [more...]

Date: 2007-10-10 13:00:16
Blog: QuizLaw: Simple Answers...

The Green House That Got Canned

Strangely this innovative example of architectural reuse hasn’t had much of a run of blogsphere ... Van Os Keuls of Silver Spring, Maryland started using discarded aluminium drink cans as siding for a house extension. (I also know a guy who had planned on using old vinyl LP records as roof shingles [more...]

Date: 2007-06-14 12:55:53
Blog: TreeHugger...

A Mason, a Glazier, a Candlestick-Maker

Well, when I'm not making random obser- vations about people in this world wanting to bring about Armageddon such as in the previous post, ... just go whole hog and do the full makeover treatment. Having gone as far as ripping my aluminum siding off and painting the house the original colors of 1926, I was disappointed that the aluminum storm windows [more...]

Date: 2007-06-12 23:59:36
Blog: GradPadScansion...

"Mystery Paint"

Boy, have I been busy since my hubby went on vacation! It's been crazy because I've been trying to get some things cleaned out while he's gone ... up before his return is the front of the house. We put up vinyl siding last weekend but the shutters ... before he left but never went to buy the paint. I did that this week and was basically "on my own [more...]

Date: 2007-07-04 23:44:51
Blog: Mo Mhíle Grá ...

Wood On Top

Wood On Top October 2nd, 2007 When I drove by the site of our new home last week, ... .  In the next week and a half, we have to decide: * the exterior color of the house (siding, trim ... of the fireplace and what kind of hearth we will have (brick, stone, tile, floor level, bench, etc [more...]

Date: 2007-10-03 05:19:48
Blog: Old House New Home...

Jethro arrives

Thanks to those who've been asking, though I feel like an old bore showing off snapshots of a new grandchild.. ... paint on it, "Harris Teeter or Bust." The cart and the turkeys out of the way, it was time to haul ... Paco and I will put siding on the donkey house and I may try to put a halter on the donkey. Labels [more...]

Date: 2007-10-11 23:26:33
Blog: Pratie Place...

Signs. And reading wrong.

Signs. And reading wrong. October 11th, 2007 Sitting at a traffic light today, ... and they wouldn’t discuss. ‘Warranty’. Right. I asked for brick siding under the house. My insurance man ... , and be reasonably flat, not slope down over nine(9) inches from one end of the house to the other. But the brick [more...]

Date: 2007-10-12 03:51:53
Blog: It’s About Making Babie...

Upgrades, Nonrefundable Deposits, And Asbestos Siding

A plugged-in reader wonders why it costs so much for upgrades in a new development ... another wonders if asbestos siding should be a concern. Think you can add some insight? Looking ... deposits forums.socketsite.com ∙ Stay away from house with asbestos siding? forums.socketsite.com [more...]

Date: 2007-04-10 11:33:04
Blog: San Francisco real esta...

Custom mirror LED turns :) - Detailed writeup

Now that I finally own my '02 SL, I decided to have some fun. I used these: Radiantz FX LED Accent Lights in the Side Mount, Amber ( ... housing, but that's fine, that's where you will run the wiring. 5. Cut a small groove in the back ... the hole you just made, it will come out next to the mirror wiring bundle. 10. Loop it around both [more...]

Date: 2007-09-20 19:31:09
Blog: Nissanclub.com Nissan E...

home designer

home designer October 2nd, 2007 technogeeky, home improvements ... textures and colors for everything! I have a brick front, and siding everywhere else. My house ... promised some neat results, and so I took the plunge. It took me several hours to transfer my house [more...]

Date: 2007-10-03 01:06:19
Blog: akaemi.com ...

About Me Meme

I've been tagged by JennyMcB for this Meme - Think you know me? Read below to find out! What were you doing 10 years ago? ... ( with you on that one Jenny) 2. Fix up the house- driveway, siding, new windows....(same again) 3. New Car ... )Ditto 5. Skin tight jeans Five favorite toys: 1. mp3 player 2. NWN 3. Paint Shop Pro 4. Sims [more...]

Date: 2007-05-19 02:22:32
Blog: TeaTime Ramblings...

Attack of the Creepy Crawlies

Today’s Wiki Wednesday Feature: Bugs Be Gone It’s summertime ... , including making sure you don’t have dirt or firewood piled against the siding of your house or fence ... on the exterior of your home is finished or painted. It’s a good reminder to keep up on those repairs that you’ve [more...]

Date: 2007-08-01 19:51:33
Blog: Zillow Blog - Real Est...

yarnwench @ 2007-06-10T14:28:00

A morning of stove shopping and an afternoon of gardening. I think I'm going to get a stainless steel coil element stove ... afternoon light and light bouncing off the gray cedar siding of my house. I decided that for this summer ... I don't have to coddle. I'd love a gas stove but would need a line put into the house and I'm [more...]

Date: 2007-06-10 18:46:41
Blog: Spinning out of Control...

EXHIBITIONISTS

by Rochelle Ratner "Stace Owens has no intention of leaving this world when he dies ... in plastic. They put white vinyl siding on their houses. Plastic pins that could be set in fractured knees ... was a son's, which was a daughter's. Rochelle Ratner's latest poetry books include Leads (Otoliths [more...]

Date: 2007-07-18 03:00:00
Blog: The New Verse News...

Strap in, shut up and hold on. We're going back.

Last weekend I put an exhaust fan in the ceiling for my wife's grandfather. It didn't start off well ... block. Yes. His walls were made of cinderblock. Covered in Aluminum siding. WTF. So off I went to Home ... Attic In The Universe, he had a ceiling fan that ducted to the side of his house. While my wife's [more...]

Date: 2007-10-13 03:18:16
Blog: 15 Minute Lunch...

Can’t Keep up with the House

This. This is what frightens me about home ownership: The ceiling is just one of many pressing concerns we have about this house. An electrician recently informed us we need an eleven-hundred-dollar repair job on our fuse box ... siding on the back of the house wasn’t installed right and needs to be replaced. And so when my 16-year [more...]

Date: 2007-05-29 16:26:21
Blog: Nashville is Talking...

Shingles

You might assume that because this is a blog about how we moved in the the forest and are trying to remodel a house while learning to deal with ... the old vinyl siding, which seems to have been put over the even-older wood siding. Then we've ... cedar shingles on the outside of our house. They look great and should protect us from the elements [more...]

Date: 2007-07-28 14:01:08
Blog: Tales from Creekistan...

Orwigsburg Arsonist In County Prison

Porter Molester In State Prison For Long Term (For the Oct. 11, 2006 Call, Schuylkill Haven, PA, & the West Schuylkill Press-Herald) ... Cocktail at Lonergan’s home. Lonergan, his wife and two children were asleep in the house at the time ... , the aluminum siding, and a screen door and door mat were damaged as a result of the incident. Zehner’s new [more...]

Date: 2007-10-11 17:56:45
Blog: The Bud Angst Report ...

Flying Squirrels

About 1 month ago we started smelling something bad in our 1/2 bath on the main floor ... into our vent duct, which is isolated about 15 feet off the ground in the middle of the brick siding on our house. She made a nest and had babies about 6 weeks ago. They didn’t make any noise until last week [more...]

Date: 2007-10-01 15:00:54
Blog: Frequency 650...

Present in one’s self

Present in one’s self October 2nd, 2007 by eric Awake at 7am, after a restful night ... this has alleviated somewhat since we’ve done a lot of dry rot repair and re-roofed the house. But we’ve got siding that needs replacement because it’s too weathered and a fence that is too old and decrepit [more...]

Date: 2007-10-03 06:19:22
Blog: Rising Spiral ...

Leading Off

Leading Off 1. Mark your iCal in your iPhone: The Council plans to set the Trinity vote for Nov. 6. 2 ... about these 15 poor folks who show signs of asbestos-related disease, and I can't but think that maybe Tim and I shouldn't have installed window shutters in the asbestos siding of my old house. Time [more...]

Date: 2007-08-15 12:28:23
Blog: FrontBurner ...

Corners of My Home

This is the neglected side of our 130+-year-old house. Please try to ignore the ugly asbestos siding and the shamrock-green shutters (they are seriously shamrock green, we found the spray paint [more...]

Date: 2007-08-02 14:28:23
Blog: the sky is pink...

How to Remove Deck Stain from Aluminum Siding

We wanted to re-stain our back deck and Megan thought is would be easier to use a sprayer. Unfortunately, the siding of our house got caught in the crossfire. We tried many different ... substance... VINEGAR... specifically the one found in window cleaner. It took just a few sprays and a couple [more...]

Date: 2007-06-12 20:21:50
Blog: mykng...

Enormous Houses

Liam and I went to look at one of the $850,000 houses under construction on the next hill south. They wer ehaving an open house ... entry way with its curved bannister. But they're putting in cedar shakes? On a house this expensive? Huh? Um, vinyl siding is where its at dudes. If I had the money for it, which I don't, I would [more...]

Date: 2007-07-15 22:27:25
Blog: So Many Things Left Uns...

Liquid Silver Anthology: Boundless

Boundless by Annie Dean ~ Bonnie Dee ~ Dionne Galace From: Liquid Silver Nothing about the old neighborhood had changed. Same rusty cars, same broken chain link fences, same tired houses with peeling paint or weathered siding. Teresa didn’t know why it mattered, but she hated for him to see where she came [more...]

Date: 2007-09-18 03:34:02
Blog: THE NAUGHTY BITS...

Uhhhhh...help?

Okay, mi casa is a complete mess. I decided the areas I painted with different colors were too small. So, I moved to the back of the house and let loose. The siding is now 4 different colors ... boxes after the paint job too. But, look at those paint samples. I started out liking the darkest [more...]

Date: 2007-06-24 17:29:04
Blog: Somewhere in China...

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