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[s219]

I've battled clay stains on a foundation too many times. Never found a good way to deal with it that lasts through the whole project. Just have to keep renewing straw or mulch periodically.

How are you cutting the soffit? We used to put a whole stack of it on a sliding miter saw and chop off a bunch at a time. Can't say it was elegant, but it sure was noisy and exciting.

 

[TnWV]

I've battled clay stains on a foundation too many times. Never found a good way to deal with it that lasts through the whole project. Just have to keep renewing straw or mulch periodically.

How are you cutting the soffit? We used to put a whole stack of it on a sliding miter saw and chop off a bunch at a time. Can't say it was elegant, but it sure was noisy and exciting.

I cut that with a pair of hand shears. I have a fine toothed blade I could put on my sliding miter saw, but wasn’t planning on working on a bunch of soffit yesterday, so didn’t set it up yet. Shears work well, just hard on the hands after a while.

 

[s219]

I think you'll run out of steam with hand shears when doing long runs. Skil saw also works well if you don't have a slider saw setup.

 

[TnWV]

I think you'll run out of steam with hand shears when doing long runs. Skil saw also works well if you don't have a slider saw setup.

Agreed, I will definitely be using a saw when I go at it again. I just did not plan on doing as much as I did at the time. You know, just a few more pieces, then a few more, etc....

I used to have a battery skil saw that I kept a blade just for soffit, but it died a few years ago and I never replaced it. Battery never lasted long enough to use on boards, but it worked well for soffit.

 

[TnWV]

Didn’t get to do anything outside today, they said it would rain, and boy did it ever. Poured all day. Flooding all around, just after getting everything cleaned up from the ice storm, several of the same roads are now closed due to flooding. I’m ready for some dry weather and looks like we will get some the rest of the week after tomorrow morning.

Spent most of the day picking up in prep for the drywall hanging to start tomorrow. Trimmed all the shims around doors and windows and foamed around the doors. I did get most of the garage wired up as well.

 

[civilian]

Any saw used with vinyl siding will be full of vinyl dust which clings to it by static. Jon

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I don’t recall issues with a saw cutting vinyl siding. I use miter saw with a backwards plywood blade to cut.

 

[TnWV]

After drywall delivery being delayed a week and a half due to the ice storm, my drywall guy was flooded in this morning and couldn’t get here......sure hope this trend does not continue. Not sure I have seen the rivers up this high in my lifetime.

 

[TnWV]

Drywall finally got going mid week. They will finish hanging tomorrow. They aren’t the fastest but appear to be doing a good job.

I’ve had to spend a lot of the evenings adding nailers in places I missed. I did get sometime over the weekend to get some siding started and now have most of the front trimmed out. I’ll be able to get going good with siding tomorrow evening. Haven’t got any good pictures of siding progress but will as I get more done.

I can’t get logged in to the site through Tapatalk since the newest update, and can’t seem to get pictures to load through the iPhone app, I’ll post some pics as soon as I get it figured out.

 

[TnWV]

I got logged in through Tapatalk, but there is no longer a function to add pictures. The app appears to only let me add them as an attachment and when you click on the link it just takes me to a log in screen. If anyone has any ideas, let me know.