The siding continues

We have had some really, really good days where we get lots done.  We measure, cut, and install board after board after board and when we walk away it looks like this:

The back side of the garage done as far as we can reach on ladders

East wall (kitchen) done as far as we can reach without using the ladder jacks.  

We finished these two sides as far as we could go with out getting out major ladders or scaffolding.  Then we moved to the back side.

Just getting started with first couple of rows at the bottom

After a couple of days of work

We were quite productive once we moved around to the back side.  Working on the ground is so much easier when it is just Mark and I. Last weekend (10/17 and 10/19) we had help from my brother, Tim, again.  We did a lot of detailed work under the deck where the living room and dining rooms bump out.  We had to cut down an 8 x 4 foot sheet of siding to line the bottom of the bump out.  Cutting through that much cement board was hard work.  Mark was fighting with the saw the whole time and it seemed that for every 2 boards we put up were were ripping one down.  On the 18th Mark and I worked in the cold all day long and when Tim came on the 19th it was hard for him to see what we had done the day before there was so little to show.  This was one of our most non-productive days.  I'd call it a really, really bad day!

Saturday we dodged the rain and hail while trimming 7 windows on the west side and the front.  We found that we were jumping between jobs - siding and putting up trim - and it was very inefficient so we decided to focus on just one and since the trim has to be done before the siding can go up we put out energies there.  By the end of last weekend we had all the installed windows and doors trimmed except the French Door in the Master bedroom.  We need scaffolding to reach that one as the ladders don't reach where we need to be.  We were also still waiting for the door and window for the kitchen.  

The fact that we don't have these is becoming a problem because they have to go in before we can side that area.  They are pretty much right above the window in the picture above.  We can do many more rows before we run into them.  

They are in transit so we will have them soon.  See next post for details on their installation.