Part 2 – The Building Next Door Gets a Facelift

A building in need of an update

Even this more recent picture of the building next door shows a building that is in need of updating. Old wooden shingles and a deteriorating roof not only date the building, they are obvious signs that the building has not been maintained and is probably not as energy efficient as it could be.

To the untrained eye, the doors and windows of this building may look OK, however, a professional evaluation would reveal that  improvements can be made here too.

Our crew gets started and removes the old, dated shingles from the outside walls of the building. As seen here on side of the building, they

We remove the outdated protective air barrier

pull back old layers of house wrap that were inconsistently installed and most likely inefficient, and maybe even ineffective, at providing the protective air barrier that they were intended for.

On this side of the building you can see that the team has made progress. The top half of this side shows us in the process of taking off the old Tyvek and installing a new Green Guard moisture barrier to protect the walls from water and moisture intrusion.

Work is progressing

More visible progress has been made on the back side of the building. We’ve installed vinyl siding on the top and applied wood strapping over the concrete walls of the first floor.

Mastic’s Carvedwood 44 woodgrain Double 4″ clapboard style vinyl siding in Sandtone

For the vinyl siding on the back side of the building, we’ve chosen  Mastic’s Carvedwood 44 woodgrain Double 4″ clapboard style vinyl siding color in the Sandtone color.  We chose this particular vinyl siding because it delivers strength, durability, the beauty of real wood, and endless design options.