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damontSo last time I had taken all the old siding and caulking off the back porch's side walls. My dad determined that it would be much faster and more economical to have the professional painter, who had done the laundry room (and various other rooms) earlier in the year, come back and paint the panels instead of paying for my time to paint them. I agreed with this assessment.
The one downside was that the painter couldn't get us into the schedule until the beginning of June, leaving me just six days of calendar time to get everything cut into shape and put up. But in the meantime I was able to get pricing on the Texture 1-11 panels from several different stores -- all three of the big chains that had stores locally (sorry Menards, you don't qualify) plus the small local chain (four or five stores in eastern PA) that we get most of our lumber from, and anywhere else in reasonable driving distance just in case. Lowe's had far and away the best price on them, I'm talking 1/4 to 1/3 cheaper than anywhere else. So off I went in late May after clearing out the back of the minivan. (And by clear, I mean removing the seats too.)
And... WIN! These 4 ft by 8 ft panels *could* be made to fit in the not quite 8ft long cabin of the minivan. It's actually about 7'8" long. Spare tire is propping them up in the rear so the panels are on a diagonal, which is how I got them to fit in the space.
[Panels in the back of the van. Click the thumbnail to get the full-size photo.]
Earlier in May my dad and I had gone to the paint store to get the cans of primer and paint the painter said we'd need. On the first of June I moved the cars out of the garage, the painter came, and I helped him set up the painting station in the garage. Both sides of the panels were primed -- and with excellent timing, that process used up ALL the primer we'd gotten but I didn't need to go get more! Then the "show" sides of the panels were painted, and by the next morning they should be dry and ready to get cut up and placed.
[Painted panels, drying in the garage. Sawing and placing to begin the next day. Click to enlarge.]
The next post in this series required a metric crapton of measuring and math before taking saw to wood. Details to come!
The one downside was that the painter couldn't get us into the schedule until the beginning of June, leaving me just six days of calendar time to get everything cut into shape and put up. But in the meantime I was able to get pricing on the Texture 1-11 panels from several different stores -- all three of the big chains that had stores locally (sorry Menards, you don't qualify) plus the small local chain (four or five stores in eastern PA) that we get most of our lumber from, and anywhere else in reasonable driving distance just in case. Lowe's had far and away the best price on them, I'm talking 1/4 to 1/3 cheaper than anywhere else. So off I went in late May after clearing out the back of the minivan. (And by clear, I mean removing the seats too.)
And... WIN! These 4 ft by 8 ft panels *could* be made to fit in the not quite 8ft long cabin of the minivan. It's actually about 7'8" long. Spare tire is propping them up in the rear so the panels are on a diagonal, which is how I got them to fit in the space.
[Panels in the back of the van. Click the thumbnail to get the full-size photo.]
Earlier in May my dad and I had gone to the paint store to get the cans of primer and paint the painter said we'd need. On the first of June I moved the cars out of the garage, the painter came, and I helped him set up the painting station in the garage. Both sides of the panels were primed -- and with excellent timing, that process used up ALL the primer we'd gotten but I didn't need to go get more! Then the "show" sides of the panels were painted, and by the next morning they should be dry and ready to get cut up and placed.
[Painted panels, drying in the garage. Sawing and placing to begin the next day. Click to enlarge.]
The next post in this series required a metric crapton of measuring and math before taking saw to wood. Details to come!
