This is how bad the siding looked. It got so abraded in 26 years that the mildew couldn't be blasted off with housewash spray and pressuse rinse. It would look good for a month, then mildew grew again (the front faces north, so no sunlight to kill mildew).
I tried sprays, I tried mopping, I gave up. Vini, Vica, Surrendre! And 26 years of blue was enough anyway.
"There is a time, (turn turn turn)
To have a new look (turn turn turn)
To have another color, under the sun."
"A time for a change,
A time for new,
A time for color other than blue,
A time to re-flect a new clean of viewing."
I knew the house was built badly just by living here. But I learned new shortcuts about it when the old siding was pulled off. See the raw plywood? That was all supposed to have been covered with insulation. It wasn't. But when the house was buit in 1986, I could only visit on weekends. I didn't see that part done poorly.
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It's always great to find a company and crew that knows and cares about the job they do. That they have pride in a job well done.
Hopefully they walked around the entire house with a magnet to pick up any nails or sharp scraps that might cause injury to feet or paws. Ours went around once or maybe twice but the following spring I was finding lots of nails (shingle nails I think) in the flower beds hidden under the foilage. I actually found another one a few weeks ago. Zolie poops in that raised bed...how awful if she'd have picked it up-I'd never catch her.
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