In too deep to turn back now... now what?
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 11:28 pm
Hello All,
I am a pretty handy person and may have gotten in a little too deep but can't turn back now. I'll start with a little back story then ask a couple questions. I will have pictures attached for reference in a second post.
Edited to add the link to my onedrive folder with all the reno pictures:
https://1drv.ms/a/s!Aic1kQhQgOt1gfpm21cfdKLN_fxEZw
My husband and I moved to Waco, TX and decided we would renovate a 1994 Clayton Homes Mobile Home that is on his parents property and has been being used as storage and an office. We sold our 1999 Fleetwood because it had been moved 5! times and really didn't think it would handle another move well.
So the house we are renovating has never been re-leveled as far as anyone knows since it was installed, we had it leveled in January 2017. Some of the supports were leaning at an almost 45 degree angle before the leveling. There was a drainage problem that has been fixed. Had the leveling checked last month and it is still sitting pretty. The second thing that was a risk is that there had been a pretty bad water heater leak that went undetected for a while. We turned the water off to the house over a year ago and took out the water heater. We knew that we had some repair to do to that part of the house.
To make a long story short I we had the bottom 2x6 replaced on about half the house, I hired a contractor and feel I would have done a better job after getting into it but what is done is done so we are moving on. I had the contractor also remove and replace a bay window and fix some framing around the area where the water heater leak was the worst.
Fast Forward... I have demolished almost everything. We are ready to put it back together. We have replaced sub-floor and are about to re-frame the areas that were taken out.
My question(s)
So originally we had decided to try and save the siding on the house to save money... It looks ugly but most of it is pretty sound. I suppose we can still do this but are now leaning toward replacing it all since we are already in so deep. The contractor cut the siding at 12 inches and covered it with hardie siding with zbar between the siding and the new hardie siding. Now that we are considering replacing it all should we take the hardie siding on the bottom off and put up full panels of siding? If we did this we talked about using it up top under the gutter where there is a current white panel that needs to be replaced. We already bought material to replace that top board but could return it. Is there any benefit to keeping the hardie panel along the bottom along the sil? If we keep the hardie panel along the bottom we would have to cut each piece of siding 12" to fit. At this point we've wasted money and just want to do what makes most sense.
Thanks in advance!
Jennifer
I am a pretty handy person and may have gotten in a little too deep but can't turn back now. I'll start with a little back story then ask a couple questions. I will have pictures attached for reference in a second post.
Edited to add the link to my onedrive folder with all the reno pictures:
https://1drv.ms/a/s!Aic1kQhQgOt1gfpm21cfdKLN_fxEZw
My husband and I moved to Waco, TX and decided we would renovate a 1994 Clayton Homes Mobile Home that is on his parents property and has been being used as storage and an office. We sold our 1999 Fleetwood because it had been moved 5! times and really didn't think it would handle another move well.
So the house we are renovating has never been re-leveled as far as anyone knows since it was installed, we had it leveled in January 2017. Some of the supports were leaning at an almost 45 degree angle before the leveling. There was a drainage problem that has been fixed. Had the leveling checked last month and it is still sitting pretty. The second thing that was a risk is that there had been a pretty bad water heater leak that went undetected for a while. We turned the water off to the house over a year ago and took out the water heater. We knew that we had some repair to do to that part of the house.
To make a long story short I we had the bottom 2x6 replaced on about half the house, I hired a contractor and feel I would have done a better job after getting into it but what is done is done so we are moving on. I had the contractor also remove and replace a bay window and fix some framing around the area where the water heater leak was the worst.
Fast Forward... I have demolished almost everything. We are ready to put it back together. We have replaced sub-floor and are about to re-frame the areas that were taken out.
My question(s)
So originally we had decided to try and save the siding on the house to save money... It looks ugly but most of it is pretty sound. I suppose we can still do this but are now leaning toward replacing it all since we are already in so deep. The contractor cut the siding at 12 inches and covered it with hardie siding with zbar between the siding and the new hardie siding. Now that we are considering replacing it all should we take the hardie siding on the bottom off and put up full panels of siding? If we did this we talked about using it up top under the gutter where there is a current white panel that needs to be replaced. We already bought material to replace that top board but could return it. Is there any benefit to keeping the hardie panel along the bottom along the sil? If we keep the hardie panel along the bottom we would have to cut each piece of siding 12" to fit. At this point we've wasted money and just want to do what makes most sense.
Thanks in advance!
Jennifer