A little lead up. Long winded, sorry
I am still working on the front of my house after the new steps, walkway and drive way. I also pressure washed the house and have started to stain it. I look at the picture of the house and on the right side the horizontal vinyl siding just doesn’t look right so we decided to change it to the vertical plank and batten like the rest of the front.
Went to a real lumber yard that sells Cypress ( 5.50 a BD foot) that would have been $440 for this small section so we opted for Cedar (3.20 a bd ft). We bought one 16 ft cypress plank and 9 6ft x12” Cedar. I still need to finish staining and put the battens on the garage side.
Now here is the gist of my post picking through the cedar for minimum figure was painful, all I kept seeing was Intarsia projects. Some of that cedar was awesome with color variation and figure and I walked away from it. But I know where it lives and I don’t have to go all the way to Jeffries in TN to get it.
I am still working on the front of my house after the new steps, walkway and drive way. I also pressure washed the house and have started to stain it. I look at the picture of the house and on the right side the horizontal vinyl siding just doesn’t look right so we decided to change it to the vertical plank and batten like the rest of the front.
Went to a real lumber yard that sells Cypress ( 5.50 a BD foot) that would have been $440 for this small section so we opted for Cedar (3.20 a bd ft). We bought one 16 ft cypress plank and 9 6ft x12” Cedar. I still need to finish staining and put the battens on the garage side.
Now here is the gist of my post picking through the cedar for minimum figure was painful, all I kept seeing was Intarsia projects. Some of that cedar was awesome with color variation and figure and I walked away from it. But I know where it lives and I don’t have to go all the way to Jeffries in TN to get it.
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