Here is the plan:
We will remove the old siding from the front of the building. This siding holds many fond memories for our children and it has set off quite a debate.
Do we try to rescue and treat it? Do we replace it with more cedar siding? The answer is within the siding itself. It is very rotten, having not been treated for a long time and not savable. The price of new cedar siding is out of the question. This leaves us with new siding and we have opted for real wood not man made.
Before we can put on the new siding we will put up insulation and the new siding will be added over this. Then we need to frame out the windows and if we have time cover the posts with 1x12's.
All this bare wood needs caulked, primed and painted.
Estimated costs run around $500.00. Home Depot sent us a 25 dollar gift card and no interest on charge purchases coupon. Our orange card had faded to a sort of dingy peach color so they sent us a new one of those too. When I was a kid there was a song
http://www.lyricsdownload.com/ernie-ford-16-tons-lyrics.html
...It went something like this...
16 tons and what do you get
another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me
cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the home-de-pot store
OK, I changed it a bit but you get the idea.
I am studying marketing and purchasing. I walk in Kroger and Walmart trying to learn by observation. Just how tall should a shelf be and where should it be placed. Does a store that sells more in a day than we will purchase in 6 months really have anything in common with our store? Truly I probably learn more from what a consumer needs to know than what the conglomerates are doing.
Like this 10 things your grocery store doesn't want you to know article.
It is refreshing to know our baskets will have fewer germs and be washed more often than any large stores.
I have been trying to come up with a friendly restroom sign. Something that says:
One at a time,
both sexes,
one at a time,
you need a key and
it is up front
where you need to sign for it and
oh by the way,
please leave it clean and
if you are from the city
we have a whole FYI about septic tanks for you to read and
we hope you have not wet your pants by the time we actually give you a key.
