Wednesday, October 24, 2007

It's a Wrap!

Last weekend we did a few sheathing repairs and wrapped our
exterior walls with Tyvek brand house wrap. It wasn't too hard. While
we could have used staples, we elected to use broad-headed
galvanized nails (as Tyvek recommends these nails as best for the job).
We wrapped up to the top of our windows but no higher because it got dark.
Hammering nails in the dark (even with the use of head lamps) is difficult
and somewhat dangerous in our experience (and we have a far
amount of that now).

We'll do the rest soon. We're trying to decide if we are going to use cedar lap siding or Hardiplank. The decision comes down to price and looks.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous5:23 PM

    Al- It's starting to look like a real house! With walls and stuff! I haven't been on the blog in a while, and I am quite impressed with the progress you guys have made.

    Best/Michelle

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