Exterior makeover help!!!
Christopher
3 years ago
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Comments (17)@kymryan..just having another look at your cladded house...Why do you want to remove the white cladding.? Apart from looking into recladding with colourbond as an option...or anything else....I think you might be wise to make sure of exactly what is under the present cladding...if you have not done that already. As cloudpants here says, your place has loads of potential and I am sure you would want it to be timeless so all you have to do is the maintenance. You mentioned that there are weatherboards under the cladding on your house. Do you know that for sure? Usually when they clad old weatherboard places the weatherboards are removed first because they cannot just be c;lad over. Check! Underneath your cladding you might have what I think was called ' wide chamferboards' or even a narrower kind used about 1950-60. These were PINE and the reason for cladding was usually because they were weather-worn or rotted. It might even be that there are no "boards" of any kind under that cladding...maybe fibro or cement sheeting.....or, if you are lucky...the house framework...onto which you can put any exterior cladding. I'd advise you to check this if you have not done so already. The tiles on the roof suggest to me that the original outside of the house may have been these pine boards or even the cement sheeting...but I think the former. I do not think that there would be the older style hardwood weatherboards under that cladding...the house is of the wrong era for those....it would need to be much older.. Another option...some of the really old weatherboard houses around here (in country Queensland) have been rendered using a very old system...All of these houses were on wooden stumps. Before they started they stabilised the stumps as I have described and then built in all around the sides of the underneath with bricks. They covered the house with insulating foil or tar paper then they covered that with chicken wire netting!!! Over that they simply applied a cement mixture and they trowelled it leaving swirls...a bit like the Mexican adobe. Then they painred it. Its a very old technique. It is materials cheap and labour intensive. If the old house on stumps inderneath shifts a little there's no problems with cracking of any kind....due to the cement, hand applied "render" having the (chicken) wire reinforcing bonded throughout with the cement. The finished house looks as if it is built of stone or concrete! ..The insulating properties are great. Its a very old system that lasts the test of time....the early Italians brought it in when this area was opened up for orchards, There's an old weatherboard house just opposite mine that was "rendered" in this manner about 50 years ago and it still looks new.....been pained occasionally of course. Recently its had a verandah added in keeping with the style of the house and they've "prettied up" the facade under the roof with some ornamenral work. You could research that I am sure...you might even find out "How To"....See MoreExterior makeover
Comments (1)Fantastic job Mandy. Great to have all the deck space. The windows were well worth your hard work. Looks like a great place to live....See MoreExterior makeover... where do we start?!!
Comments (11)Will the deck be used as a entertaining area or just a entrance? If it’s used as a entrance you maybe don’t need to make it big deck landscaping might soften the front. We have used Modwood with great success on our decks in Southern Tasmania like the suggestion of a coloured door...what’s your favourite colour we have a beautiful yellow door on our holiday house milky glass door on our home....See MoreRiver shack needs an exterior makeover...What would you do?
Comments (7)Love the colour scheme but wouldn’t do it in a warm climate as black absorbs too much heat. I prefer light houses, but that’s my preference. Black needs to be supported by lovely feature trims. Pick your deck timber and colour stain or natural and then look at house colours to suit package. I’d do wide steps off deck that a couple can sit on or more a tribe. Planting in front of deck to soften and invite as well as cool house. Depending on your budget how much you want to change....See MoreChristopher
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