This past weekend Ryan and I worked on siding the house. It was a long but productive weekend.

This is where we were siding wise prior to this weekend: http://groudasfamily.com/nicolesblog/2009/08/anniversary-and-vacation/
Just under the top of the windows. The first pieces we had to do this weekend needed to be cut around the window caps.

First up though – Ryan had to remove a bit more of the siding that wrapped around the porch roof and needed to be replaced so he did that.

Then we got down to business cutting siding with our new jigsaw.  We put up the row of siding that wraps around the window caps, and got up to the first part of the frieze board under the soffit.  This is where we ended Saturday night:

And this is what took so long – each piece had one or two sides that had to be cut like this:

Oh and we had to cut the frieze board to lay flat over the siding – this was all very time consuming work but we loved the outcome:

And on to Sunday – the siding continued – we were hoping it would go faster however one of the first projects included making a drip cap for the bathroom window and getting a tight fit between that and the frieze board on top.  Then cutting the old side frieze board to match the new frieze board.  Here is the bathroom window cap – this took a while with the table saw and some figuring out but it actually came out perfect (compared to plan anyway).And then we continued siding – this part took a good long while:

And finally – the finished product (well as finished as we got over the weekend) – there is still a full run of new siding that needs to go up and then 2 partial runs of old siding over the roof that need to go back up until we get around to redoing the siding up there.Don’t think we are done either – we still have:
– mouldings around all window caps to install
– moulding under soffit to install
– double window extended sill needs to be made and attached
– siding around the door on porch needs to be put up (after the window block is created and installed)
Stay tuned for next weekend when we try to tackle that list!