Siding Coming Off - Rooms Being Laid Out

They really got busy tearing off the siding. This is the front and the wood is looking real good. As far as I can tell the vinyl siding was put on in the 70's. Luckily, the siding was in good shape when they covered it up.


This is one of the sides which is almost all stripped of siding. You can see above the windows there was once dentil molding, unfortunately it was removed when they put on the siding. Also, the staining which is very evident on this side is from guano(bat droppings). There is some repair that needs to be done but overall it is not in bad shape.


The rooms have been laid out and tomorrow the walls will be put up...hopefully finished by tomorrow. The two squares on the back wall to the left are bathrooms, in the far corner is a closet, the broom is where the refrigerator is, just behind is another closet, beside those, in the foreground is a big pantry, and in the back, is the bedroom, where the saw is. I was standing in the kitchen area when I took this photo.

Back Wall Done/Siding Coming Off

The Back Wall is finally fully sheeted and Tyvek applied, and none too soon; five inches of rain is expected the weekend.


A view of the inside of the back wall from the second floor. No more tarp!


With the framing out of the windows the siding has to be removed. We decided to go with the existing wood siding. We like the look much better than vinyl. But, we have a lot of scraping to do. Actually, the siding is in fairly good shape since being hidden from the weather for the last 30 - 40 years. We are trying to decide how to frame out the windows now. We are thinking of putting wide trim to meet the existing trim from the original windows and put a panel between the top and bottom. Any ideas?


Siding being removed from the other side of the building.

Back Wall Almost Done

Work is continuing on sheeting the back wall. One more day of work and I think that should be it.


The siding is being removed to allow the windows to be installed. As you can see, there were large windows on the side of the building, it is my guess that they were removed when the church was converted to the Grange. There will be two windows in each of these areas, one over the other. We are still deciding what to do with the space between the two windows; once in we will decide. We think we will put a flat panel between the top of the bottom window and the bottom of the top window. We will make the final decision once we have the windows in. It looks like we will not be putting on vinyl siding but scraping and painting the wood siding.


Unfortunately, vinyl siding hides the problem areas such as rot. Here is a little that will need some work.