January Meltdown

Due to the projected warmer weather this week, Eric took the week off to work on siding. In the beginning of the week, the melting snow caused the fog to be so thick you could not see the house from the road. Here are pictures from the week.

We are using Certainteed's Weatherboard Fiber Cement Siding. A company called Cement Side out of Rochelle, IL prefinishes it with a 25 year warranty. They have 5 stock colors, but will apply a custom color for no extra charge. It just is not returnable if you overestimate. Eric and I went with a custom color and are super happy with it.
This picture was taken Saturday afternoon. If you stand in the right spot you can pretend the whole house is done... We've had one snafu with putiing up the siding. The cement fiber shears Eric bought broke half way up the 1st garage wall. There was a big bubble in the metal casting right where it broke, so Dewalt is sending us 2 replacements for it. Hopefully, they will get here before Eric finishes. Now, they are using the grinder to cut it, which works but is horribly dusty. Eric also can't wait for gutters. Each day he ends up soaked from water dripping off the eve on him.
Here is the completed drywall and El Niche as we like to call it (proper spanish would be el nicho, but we like el niche). I'm working my way through the house with the vacumm. I purchased some drywall dust bags for the ShopVac which came with a free upgrade filter. It has worked really well not putting the dust back into the air. The only drawback is I'm using the 4 inch crevice tool nozzle because it gets the best suction. That is a lot of floor space for 4 inches a swipe. I know poor me on ground level in warm, dry weather...