Siding with Me

Yesterday gave Pete and the guys a chance to start putting up the siding, beginning with the south side of the new addition. The first photo below captures the very first strip of fiber cement cladding that we're using, which will never rot and which ties in very nicely with the clapboard siding on the original house.

By this morning, they'd almost finished this exterior wall, and it is looking good to my eye.


Before they started on this, they also got most of the soffit installed under the eaves for this portion of the addition. It is the same Hardie board material, and much of it is pre-drilled venting soffit. I think the light didn't play out right for you to really see it under the roofline here, but maybe I'll catch something better when the sun is different.

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Mid-Afternoon Update
It's a pretty small gable to work all the shake siding into, but Pete and the guys were pretty intent (and intense) in making it be right and look right. Here are three more shots of the progress on the south/parking lot side of the addition.