Wood Siding Installation and Water Damage Repair

I swapped out some rotted pieces of wood siding and sheathing on my house! Check out the process for repairing the sheathing, adding house wrap, and finally installing new siding.

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[Robert]

You are amazing Melissa. Your hub is one lucky dude and you both will have an awesome lake house after you are done with your touches. Your repair job here and addressing the root cause is excellent.

[jhold]

You have taken on some jobs that most homeowners wouldn't dare. Making a huge hole in the side of your house may take the cake haha. Great job showing people it can be done

[B-oc]

Great video. Also, as a Lutheran, I recognized your Thrivent “Live Generously” shirt.

[jimtalor]

Great start on addressing the water damaged area. I found Gate City Foundation Youtube channel a good place to get info on proper drainage near a foundation. Helped me a lot correcting the mistakes I made from gutter to flat surface and away from my house drainage. Awaiting more videos, Thanks

[dennyk]

Nice work, your voice is so soothing.

[NinjaMonkey]

This is awesome, so many people don't care and/or hire someone else. I like that you took the time to make sure that cut was level, and that the house wrap was tight and lapped correctly. Also, caulking that seem "seemed." good. Not enough carpenters and builders take the care to work as if they lived there. We as professionals all see this in remodels haha. Funny thing is, I see more people in the comments saying you should do this, or that. Its annoying. Days on the job and someone just walks in and asks why didn't you do it this way, or you should have done this. Its like shut up, I'm not wasting my time explaining to you the compounding issues that required this fix.... But you're a lot better at explaining what you do and why you do it. Gotta remind myself that carpenters need people skills too lol. Great video

[JamesDeese]

Thorough job! It amazes me that so much of water problems arise from poor grading at the building site. The homeowner ends up having to do major grading themselves or pay to have it done just to keep the house they bought for a lot of money. This is a good microcosm of what needs to be done sometimes on a larger scale. It shows work that is scalable, and though physically demanding, not beyond the ability of most people.

[brucecrane]

You really have your work cut out for you. But, you did a great job. I really need one of those work benches.

[rickknapp]

Good job girl I got a little chuckle when you used scissors to cut the house wrap

[robertkerby]

I really enjoyed your video.
Well done!

[garyglenn]

You actually make it look easy and needless to say it is not. Great job!

[spk]

nice. You did a great job and it looks great...well done

[Christopher_Bachm]

You are relentless.
Very inspiring...

[brucestephenson]

Put those safety glasses on. Good episode.

[stephenkeefer]

Rule of thumb I learned from an old carpenter: cut cedar siding 1/8” longer than needed to allow for shrinkage.

[rdublu]

House rap is an air barrier and darainage plane, not a vapor barrier. The vapor barrier goes on warm side of the wall...just saying. :-) love your channel!

[peterepoet]

Great Job, very descriptive tips and visual views of the applications of each step. Bravo.

[richiecaelwarts]

Nothing worse than water problems you did a awesome job getting rid of that problem love you hard working videos great job Melissa ps your very beautiful.

[blkstromer]

excelllent work. take a look a liquid flash, its a fluid applied chaulk that comes out of a sausage gun. great for window and door seals and where disimilar materials meet. the Build channel on YT swears by it.

[diverdave]

Please wear safety glass to protect your beautiful eyes ! My friend didn't wear his one day and he helicoptered a nail into his eye ... and he is now blind in that eye !