So, scraping and priming continue.  A little bit each weekend, and we finally have more than half of the houses exterior prepped for paint. I can not wait to begin applying the blue paint. Soon.
    Here is where it's at, the front and back are complete, the side walls need the 2nd & 3rd levels primed:
  

Last week my wife Robin and I, began the overwhelming task of scraping the siding in preparation for paint. We got about a third of the south facing wall scraped and we began to apply oil based primer to it.

This house probably has not been painted in at least 35 years.  The paint fell off of the house, and many of the cedar boards were bare wood when we were done.  We have many more weekends of scraping and priming ahead of us before we begin to apply the new glidden blue exterior paint.

Here's where we left off:

The back wall is all done.  Siding went well and looks nice,  I used Hardieplank cedarmill and  we overlapped it at 5 1/2 inches to replicate the cedar wood that had been there.

We also got the soffit in at the rear eve.  And yes Mike, it was difficult like you said, but it wasn't impossible. I originally tried sliding it it from the end, but that wasn't happening, so I perfected a method where I flexed it in an arch and popped one end at a time into its channel.

The finished  product looks good too.

When you look at a before and after shot, it really is impressive how much we accomplished in 4 months of only working weekends

With the exception of paint on the front and sides of the house, I'm done for this season.  The money I set aside for 2017 is all gone and its time to start saving for school & property taxes. Updates to this blog will slow down for a while until some bills get paid.

 Thanks for following along, and check in from time to time, as the next big project will be new floors and drywall inside.

Fritz

 

Wall progress:

We should have it all finished next week.

The rear wall is framed out and plywood has been nailed up.
We forgot the stapler, otherwise we would have put the housewrap on too.

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Windows and siding next week.

Rob and I decided to rebuild the entire rear wall due to the extent of water damage.  Doing it in thirds seemed like a reasonable plan so as not to risk a collapse of the roof we had just completed.

The middle third was framed out yesterday, and plywood sheathing installed. Concrete was poured on the last third( to the right and up to the corner).

Next week we should be able to finish framing and plywood, then windows go in and siding goes up.

The concrete was cured and ready to build a new wall on today. So that's what we did.

We poured more concrete under the next set of widows and will probably totally rebuild the entire wall back there next week.