Tag: Clapboard
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Clapboard Complete
Installation of clapboard is complete! All four façades of Rosslyn’s icehouse are now handsomely clad in cedar, primed and painted before installation, ready for nailhead touchup as temperature rises in the weeks ahead. Especial accolades are due Supi and Peter who stayed late last night to finish all but the last four boards at the…
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Searching for Poetry
Searching for poetry, questing for questions that need no answers to matter and guide and enrich. This might be my epitaph. Some day. But not yet. I hope. Today, the vernal equinox, I awoke at 4:00 AM, eager to start cooking a wild boar roast I had thawed. Actually it wasn’t the roast that caffeinated…
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Saturday Siding
Some weekends are for relaxing or fêting friends. Other weekends are for backcountry adventures or polar plunges in currently 35° Lake Champlain. But today was dedicated to cladding — T&G paneling inside the icehouse and clapboard outside the outhouse — with four dedicated members of Rosslyn’s icehouse rehab team swapping R&R for punch list productivity.…
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Parenthetical Portrait
I’m grateful when progress is captured and conveyed by members of the team. Pam is especially mindful to keep me abreast of daily changes. Today several helpful snapshots popped up from a Peter. Yesterday several helpful visual updates arrived from Tony Foster including several color captures of clapboard siding. Hidden in one, an accidental portrait…
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Siding Before Windows?
Notice something peculiar about our clapboard siding installation? Typically windows (and doors) would be installed before siding. And before trim. It works better. For lots of reasons. But… We’ve added an extra challenge. Not by choice. Our timeline on this project, reasonable last summer, became more compressed as summer slid into autumn and then yawned…
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Removing Clapboard Siding from Icehouse
Preparation for historic rehabilitation of Rosslyn’s icehouse is underway, and the photo above captures progress as of this afternoon. On the third day of removing clapboard siding from the icehouse we are now officially 3/4 of complete. And top of the good news list was confirming that the old cladding is in excellent condition except…