First up, a progress report. Framing is going well, we are seeing window and door openings forming, and plywood is starting to be installed. Exciting to see things taking shape.
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| Framing July 8 |
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| Framing July 8 |
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| Framing July 13 |
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| Framing July 13 |
The next choice up is siding. I’ve been wanting to do this since we bought this place – I hate the standard 70s wide plank white aluminum siding we have now. It does not do the house any favours – and was even worse with the all black trim when we bought it.
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| Front of the house July 8 - before new siding. |
The main contactor doing the addition will do the siding, but he asked me to get quotes, and if I can get it done cheaper than he can do it – he’s fine with that (did I mention I love this contractor!). It works out well for the job as a whole too as we can have the siding done while they are working on other things. Our contractor is a small local company without a ton of crews – the owner has been working on our place every day. So we called to get a few quotes from local places. One of the places we called was the company that did our replacement windows in the old section of the house 3 years ago (and we were happy with – obviously if we called them back) and one is a larger local siding business that’s been around since 1969. Well we now know how to tell if a contactor does not want your business… and the guy that did our windows obviously doesn’t… his price came in well over twice the cost of the other guy. Um over $40k for regular vinyl siding for a 1.5 story house not quite 2000 sqft is NOT reasonable! I seriously don’t know how he kept a straight face when he delivered the quote. So we are obviously not going with him LOL.
On to the other guy. Sometimes you just get a good feeling about someone, and this guy is one of them. We set up a time for the quote for 2:00pm, at 1:30pm he called me to say he was running behind and would be 15 minutes late, he pulled in the driveway at 2:14pm… if you’ve ever dealt with home repairs and contractors – that is impressive. He seems knowledgeable, is obviously organized, quoted on the spot, price is good, but not too good to be true. The company’s been around since 1969 and he comes with references. He steered us away from a product, which he can and will sell, because of past experience with bad fading and the manufacturer not standing behind the warrantee (which is also the product quoted by the other guy – he didn’t know that though). So far this guy seems great – lets hope it stays that way, just following up references now, getting a solid quote for the back of the house (Friday) and choosing colors. On that note – here are the colors. We are going with a deep dark blue on the main body of the siding and an oversized 5.5” corner and trim in a medium grey color – pictures of the swatches below:
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| Siding swatches against the house in the sun |
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| Swatches in the shade |
The blue will be the main siding color and the grey will be the trim and oversized corners. This will totally change the look of the house, but I think it will look amazing. So excited to see this take shape!
Next up kitchen layout - the 'kitchen guy' come tomorrow.
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