Onto the exterior

Now that Fall has descended upon us, there is a hurry to finish painting the house before the rainy season begins. Due to decades have passed after the last paint job, the sidings are chipped, splintery, cracked, aged and if you are nice you can call it rustic. But let's not kid ourselves, sidings are in dire need of repair. The most time consuming and tedious part of painting is the amount of prep work. In this case, I would say a good 80% would be spent on prepping and priming the exterior. So on Saturday I drove by the house and it was shocking. I knew that prep work has started, but I didn't know that sanding down the wood makes the exterior looks so run down.

There is also another big shock which is outside the dining room window. Peter ordered a very nice looking tree there chopped. It was such a nice "moment" from the house. I understand that the growth is too close and is obstructing the down spout, but still seeing it chopped is disconcerting.

The sad looking tree stump ;-(

As I mentioned before, there are too many cracks and crooked wall in the house, apparently the main culprit is the amount of retained ground water under and close to the perimeter of the house. This is part of the process of remedying future problem with the foundation.