During the same time frame that we were doing the floors, Troy was working on the siding. We went with a vertical board and batten style of vinyl. The brand is Certainteed, and I was impressed with the quality of it compared to the stuff used on the Buffalo house. It's twice as thick, and therefore should not be so likely to crack when hit by a foreign object. I've waited to make a post because we couldn't get a nice picture of the front of the house with a dumpster in the way.
Troy started with the backside. We were at the time of year when things were starting to warm up, and he wanted to do the areas over mud before it thawed. The parts over gravel would be much easier to deal with than mud after thawing.
From there he went to the back side of the shop, then the front of the shop, and eventually to the front of the house.
Ugh! All the mud! EVERYTHING is muddy when the frost comes up.
House, but with a forklift and trailer in the way.
Another story of Brock the Fearless: He was MIA for a week, and when asked, Troy told us that he had a broken wrist. He and a cousin had been tearing out a wall and the cousin challenged him to punch through the drywall. As any 17yo boy would, he took the challenge, and hit a stud instead of just drywall. After it was determined that he did not require surgery, he was back at work with a cast on. Using the forklift with its work platform, he was working on the side of the upstairs dormer. They have brackets that hook to the roof under the shingles to hold boards to create a support platform. Brock was on top of that platform when a bracket broke loose. He slid down and off the roof, and managed to grab the forklift platform on the way down. With the broken hand. Dustin quickly helped him down from there. A few days later he was back at work. This time he had been told that he DID need surgery, but not for function, just to prevent a weird lump in his wrist. He opted to not have the surgery. Boys and their battle scars!
FINALLY! A full front picture with no dumpsters or forklifts in front of it.
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