This required a lot of gentle removal of the siding to preserve wood that could be reused. Once I got down to the studs, I made the decided to rebuild the wall too. The existing studs at some point had some water damage along the sill. One of the previous owners just simply tacked another 2x4 on the side of the other and replaced the sill. The sill wasn't attached to the concrete and the studs were a total mess. I started on the end by the door and began pulling out all the framing around the existing side door. I new I wanted to open up the door to about 4 foot, so I went ahead and framed in for a custom door (more on the door later).
Once I got the door framed in, I continued down the wall, shoring it up, removing the old wood and replacing it with the new.
Next was to replace the siding... Since the wood was in pretty bad shape, I decided to go ahead and replace it with new wood. Luckily the local Grogan carries the old 6" pine siding with the same profile in 16 footers. The cool part is bring home 16 foot lumber in a Prius! Almost like a Tundra, except it gets 45MPG.
Then all the wood had to be primed. I primed all sides but the front, figuring it would be easier to paint the front once it's on. After getting everything primed I started hanging. Luckily my neighbor was nice enough to let me borrow all his tools I needed, so the siding went up pretty quick. It did rain a few of those days and since the days were getting shorter, I wasn't getting a lot of daylight after work. Had to tape up some plastic over the wall a few days since the front wasn't primed yet.
Once I got a chance I laid a couple coats of primer and then Karen put down the first coat of the blue to match the existing.
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