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Posted on 07/13/2004 9:49:23 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
There's a speed zone ahead, all right,
I don't see a cop in sight.
In thirty years or so, when I have a nice house, I want a log home somewhere slightly rural. Brick would be acceptable, but my dream home doesn't have vinyl.
Then again, I've seen log-exterior doublewides... hmmm...
Actually...I liked my vinyl. You never have to paint the house again (first time I had it painted, the stuff started peeling after 4 years) and the insulation sure did cut down the heating/cooling costs.
I plug in "+20 years" on my home search parameters. :)
Best move we ever made was putting the vinyl siding on this house. We had masonite siding which was rotting out from under us. The house looks good, and other than an occasional power wash the siding is maintenance free. I'm hoping next year we can go ahead with vinyl windows.
That said of course, my preference would have been brick. But for our house that would'v been a bit to spendy.
Oh, I know vinyl's practical, but since I'm talking about my dream house, and I probably won't even have a starter house for five years or more, I can be as impractical as I like, right?
LOL! That was my plan too but I never made it to replacing the windows. Little things like new furnace, new driveway, and new deck sorta got in the way.
It's just my personal preference, but I wouldn't want to live in a log home. But I wouldn't mine owning a third home (after the residence and the beach house) in the mountains.
I did get the windows and stormwindows painted, so I've probably got another 3-4 years before I have to do anything. But I'm not painting windows again.
Yep, I need to get up and get busy. See y'all later.
They can be really, really nice. Like my family's home. Other than attracting carpenter bees, I like it. We have split logs - outside half are cedar, with insulation in the middle, and the inside are white pine.
I also don't want to live in a neighborhood... sigh... guess I'd better work on getting rich if I want a nice house away from people...
Now you understand why we're doing the work on our addition ourselves! It may take twice as long to get the job done, but it will be done right! SSQ is actually over-engineering the thing, for example, the code allows deflection tolerances of something like 360 in the floors, but he's doing more like 600. We're spanning a 23' space with no center supports, so we're using the engineered I-joists and putting them close together if needed in certain areas to support the floor above. He's looking at it from the viewpoint of having 20 or 30 people over, and not wanting the floor to start sagging!
As he quotes Red Green from time to time, "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy!". I'm lucky cause I gots BOTH!
Oh, I didn't mean to imply they weren't nice. Just not my style. ;-)
Later.
I don't like vinyl; a personal prejudice. We're going to use fiber-cement siding, and we're going to replace the rough-sawn cedar we have so that the house is uniform. SSQ prefers a larger 'reveal' on the boards than what we have now, anyway, and the fiber cement is supposed to hold a paint finish twice as long as wood! We're looking at one manufacturer that sells pre-painted siding with a 25 yr. finish warranty. We'd never have to paint again as long as we live here! Problem is, I don't like any of the colors they have right now. ;o(
OT: your boss's experience fairly well mirrors many of the newer homes in JoCo that my co-workers have bought. An amazing amount of redo work for homes 10 years old or less. Truly astounding amounts of work needed to be done, to repair just such mis-deeds.
Suziq: Good Morning. There are numerous examples of them through the older KC neighborhoods. Our old lumber yard office (now a photography studio and tailor shop) actually had some of the catalog pictures on their walls, some with addresses. The interior design office up the street used to be the mill shop where they made the windows for our home and others around town. Our doors, window trim and interior trim is 'southern hard pine'. At least 10 rings, often more, to the inch. One fellow in town wanted a 'big lot' he bought the adjacent homes and moved them. 50-55 feet was the typical width-but they were 150-180 feet deep. Alleys for the garages.
Jenb, well, aesthics aside, it's darn practical. Maintenance can eat one's lunch in more than one way. Stained log exterior is available, seen a few of them, they look quite nice with 'hugh' porches.
Corin, I'm with you on the painting windows.
Well, the osage is calling out my name, got to get back to making yellow shavings.
BBL.
All our new windows are going to have a heavy duty extruded aluminum exterior; pre-painted with a permanent finish! After we finish the addition, we're going to replace all the other windows in the house that were not affected by the new construction. We found a brand that is really nice. It is Eagle windows; the company was started by folks who used to work for Andersen windows. They are extremely well made; SSQ was mightily impressed, and it takes a LOT to do that.
Change of plans. Game delayed due to rain.
Finishing up a few things here then I'm going to go out and forage for drugs and supplements...
Mom would like to get our windows replaced, I think, but they're pretty good. About 15 years old, but they still work properly...
It was very funny, though, when someone would call to try to sell us vinyl siding... Mom would just say, "Um, we live in a log home," and they'd hang up so fast...
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