Recap of Lueken Housing Development

I’ve missed a few posts so here’s what I did for the last two weeks. I went out to Sullivan Missouri and stayed with my grandparents for two weeks. My grandpa owns 17 renal properties and does as much work on them as he can himself. While I was there our main project was to put up siding on a house. He got the siding from a neighbor who was redoing his own house, so we got the siding for free.

The first thing we did was measure out all the windows and the dimensions of the house, and then I sketched it with the dimensions so that we could select the pieces of siding that would fit the best. What we actually ended up doing though, was putting most of the siding on a trailer and the getting pieces as we needed them. The first thing you have to do when doing siding is putting of J channel. The J channel goes around all the windows, doors, and vents and the edge of the siding goes into it so that it looks finished and not exposed. The next step is to do put in place all the corners, which can be either inside corners of outside corners. Once the corners and the J channel are all in place you are ready to start actually putting up the siding.

The siding fits together and slides back and forth. It is important to make sure that all the siding is snapped together before you start hammering nails. When it is snapped in, make sure you put the nails in the very center of the slots, so that is can slide back and forth. Something else we had to do before we put the siding was take down the old awnings over the windows. We cut these off, and then I removed the brackets after they were gone. I mostly cut the siding to the right lengths with the chop saw, while my grandpa put it up. We got a lot done, and my grandpa said it will have increased the value of the house by at least 5 grand.