My house is an older cottage type: built in late 1930s, it is about 1300 sq ft, built on a brick foundation, original wooden lap siding (cypress boards), oak floors, plaster walls and ceilings
I had it re-roofed about 10 years ago, along with adding central air and heat.
I'm generally pretty handy with home repairs, so I do most of the work myself.
This house was built with ZERO insulation. I added 6" fiberglas in the attic joists and put up storm windows. It has ZERO insulation in the walls and floors.
It also has a terrible problem with the paint peeling off the cypress siding. I suspect this is mostly because there is no vapor barrier between the siding and the inner walls.
I would like to get started on working on the outside of the house. For historic reasons, saving the cypress siding would be nice, but going to vinyl or other manmade material would probably be smarter. Many of the other cottages in the neighborhood have gone to vinyl or aluminum siding.
Under the cypress siding is currently just diagonal boards, then the studs and empty space.
I plan on stripping all of the siding and sheathing off, then adding roll fiberglas insulation. Paper goes to inside surface, right?
Then to replace the board sheathing with OSB? Or something else?
Then a vapor barrier, like Tyvek? Will this help the siding pain last longer?
Then salvage as much original siding as possible and replace the damaged pieces with cypress? Or go to manmade product? What is that composite material that comes in boards that is made to look like wood?
Any advice appreciated.
I had it re-roofed about 10 years ago, along with adding central air and heat.
I'm generally pretty handy with home repairs, so I do most of the work myself.
This house was built with ZERO insulation. I added 6" fiberglas in the attic joists and put up storm windows. It has ZERO insulation in the walls and floors.
It also has a terrible problem with the paint peeling off the cypress siding. I suspect this is mostly because there is no vapor barrier between the siding and the inner walls.
I would like to get started on working on the outside of the house. For historic reasons, saving the cypress siding would be nice, but going to vinyl or other manmade material would probably be smarter. Many of the other cottages in the neighborhood have gone to vinyl or aluminum siding.
Under the cypress siding is currently just diagonal boards, then the studs and empty space.
I plan on stripping all of the siding and sheathing off, then adding roll fiberglas insulation. Paper goes to inside surface, right?
Then to replace the board sheathing with OSB? Or something else?
Then a vapor barrier, like Tyvek? Will this help the siding pain last longer?
Then salvage as much original siding as possible and replace the damaged pieces with cypress? Or go to manmade product? What is that composite material that comes in boards that is made to look like wood?
Any advice appreciated.