Photo: Side of the House
The side of the house is our house project for this year:
This wall needs to be replaced. These are “new” boards, installed when the previous owners renovated the house to create a bathroom and an outside closet on the back porch. Something happened, and these boards have a significant amount of rot in them, and they do not match the rest of the house, so we’ll make the replacement boards, install them, primer them, and paint them the new house color.
What do I mean when I say “make” the boards? This house was built in 1900. The ship lap boards used then are not made anymore. We’ve found modern decking boards come the closest. We shave a little off one side and shave a little off one edge to get the dimensions right. Then we rout the laps into each edge, and they are an almost indistinguishable replacement that integrates into the existing house boards very nicely.
That sounds like a lot of work to make your own boards. I hope the project goes well!
Hope you’re having fun with the A to Z challenge,
Jocelyn