Frame Houses - What's Under the Siding?
Does anyone know what you’d find under the siding of a frame house? Why are they all covered in siding, and is it ever possible to rehabilitate the outside to some former glory??
Does anyone know what you’d find under the siding of a frame house? Why are they all covered in siding, and is it ever possible to rehabilitate the outside to some former glory??
Rip off a piece and take a look. My house had alum siding installed over the original cedar siding.
it’s usually wood frame with brick in-fill. We took off the horrible siding and replaced it with Artisan line of hardy plank and it looks super great!
Greenwood — that’s more or less our deal. When we started the inside reno, the crapola clapboards started popping off. You could see right through — no fill, no insulation, no sheathing. Just flimsy pine clapboard slats nailed onto rotten studs, with sheetrock facing in. Sometimes renovation is like playing jenga. In teh back, however, there was brick infill for insulation, though not everywhere.
We just found out that on one side of ours there is nothing. Absolutely nothing. Siding on one side. Framing boards in the middle. Sheetrock on the other side. Guess someone thought it was a quick way around replacing the sheathing. No wonder it feels like the wind moves the sheetrock.
In a sense this makes fixing it much easier. remove aluminum. Tighten the frame. fill with bats. new sheathing. #30 roofing felt. cedar. done.
Sometimes you’ll find GOLD!
Anything is po$$ible!
You might find tar shingles on a plywood substrate. You might find clapboard siding, whether or not on a substrate layer. You might find nonstructural brick infill between the wood studs or not. You might find rotted wood framing or well-preserved. You are likely to find there is no insulation (other than brickfill). There are other possibilities. Close your eyes and make a wish.
Do you mean a steel-framed or a wood-framed house?
I’d give my right arm for a nice cruck-framed house. Not too many of them in NY unfortunately.
They were called “Tin Men.” if it’s aluminum.