What's Underneath South Slope Siding?
We were looking to replace the siding on our South Slope frame house but I just got the 1940 tax photo that shows the house as having a brick face. Anyone have any idea whether, in general, the brick was removed from the face of these homes before siding was installed and if not, whether…
We were looking to replace the siding on our South Slope frame house but I just got the 1940 tax photo that shows the house as having a brick face. Anyone have any idea whether, in general, the brick was removed from the face of these homes before siding was installed and if not, whether we might be able to have the siding removed and restore the brick underneath? Thanks.
south slope is primarily stick frame with rubble infill and clapboard on top….look at the adjacent houses for an idea of construction technique
Asphalt shingles, most likely (as others have said), but there are plenty of examples of faux siding over real brick (at least up here in the north of Brooklyn).
It is also quite likely that it is ALL under there – original wood and later layers of faux siding. Our wood-frame house had three layers of “historic” siding underneath a fake brick tile facade (real tile, btw – craziest system I’ve ever seen).
Here is a photo of a house that burned in Green Wood Heights. You can see all the layers that went on over time. The right hand corner shows a fragment of asphalt “brick”. Have fun.
http://tiny.cc/9yiek
Very typical of the time for a small house in that area, is a wood frame house with brick fireproofing between the studs, and then some kind of siding over the whole thing, possibly wood or asphalt siding.
Greenwoodgeneral is probably right.
Are your window casings wood??? If so, that would indicate a clapboard siding. You may be very lucky and underneath the vinyl & asphalt have a very well preserved clapboard facade.
You may be surprised to find the brick face is asphalt shingle siding with bricks printed on it. This was a common 30s/40s siding and mighthave been there when the pic was taken.
It wouldn’t be that hard to pry open one section of the siding to see what’s there. You can easily snap it back on when you are done. If there is real brick, you are lucky, indeed. If not, no big deal- you can just put cedar or hardiboard back on.