Outside - Who's House is THIS?

The siding guys have been at it much of this week. They come back today to finish. They still have a piece of siding on the side of the house where the electric comes in from the street. Dominion Virginia Power is coming to assist.

Here's the completed siding on the addition. The siding is Hardi Plank, a mixture of concrete and fibreglass that is supposed to last forever. The trim is a paintable vinyl, the painters are coming today to start the trim painting. It's a light caramel color, I don't remember the name.

This was taken on Tuesday I think, before they'd added siding to this part of the house. Tim is still working on the deck. The planking is in place except for a strip next to the door to the new space...where it counts, so we still have to do a long jump into the back door.

detail shot. That satellite dish belonged to the previous owner, and we'd never taken it down. This is the home office window. The siding was in really bad shape on this side of the house.

Here's the completed back of the addition. On the right, there's our new air compressor for the Lennox A/C system.

Here's the back of the new space. Steve was installing the gas fireplace, and discovered that he was missing a part. He found out yesterday that he won't need it for this installation. Whew!

Here's the front of the house with the new siding.

Detail shot. This poor little dogwood tree has been really thrashed, what with the roofers, siders, and now the painters. I hope it's not too stressed.

Here's Tim's work in progress. The bones of the deck are wood, but the planking is that Trex composite material, that's made out of recycled Pampers or whatever. The main deck is that tan color, the trim will be the brown.

Deck Detail.

Here's what it looked like Wednesday evening, when they'd finished siding everything.

There we are.

Thats how the outside is shaping up. Next I'll post an update of the inside.

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