Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
De Ja vooooo
Saw= machine
Now for the wood butcher challenge.
Post a pic of said "shake manufacture"
Winner gets a spork
There's a guy in here who's house is covered in metal. Pretty sure it'd last in your cheap seats.
There's a guy in here who's house is covered in metal. Pretty sure it'd last in your cheap seats.
Haha. I think under the vinyl on my parent's house is cedar shingles still. Pretty sure my Dad didn't rip them off but put some r board up and the siding.
This. Every fucking vacation home on the new england coast has shake siding and the rich ones have cedar. Well installed cedar as siding should be good for 50-100yr depending on how the house is oriented to the sun (and how well the northerly wall will dry in the winter).
I completely agree with all of this. Galv, stainless or don't bother.
Tell me more....
Thanks. Unfortunately my price range is absurdly low. Most of what I'm looking at is an hour north of Bangor. Found a clean suitable house in Athens. But the Hillbilly stereotype is strong there. Neighbors have stacks of old tires, abandoned vehicles and pop-up campers in their front yard. I'm a redneck at heart but c'mon.
Looking north of BangorThanks. Unfortunately my price range is absurdly low. Most of what I'm looking at is an hour north of Bangor. Found a clean suitable house in Athens. But the Hillbilly stereotype is strong there. Neighbors have stacks of old tires, abandoned vehicles and pop-up campers in their front yard. I'm a redneck at heart but c'mon.
I'm gonna laugh my ass off when you buy into some "nicer" place and then start bitching about all the yuppie swine in 5yr when the economy starts picking back up.Thanks. Unfortunately my price range is absurdly low. Most of what I'm looking at is an hour north of Bangor. Found a clean suitable house in Athens. But the Hillbilly stereotype is strong there. Neighbors have stacks of old tires, abandoned vehicles and pop-up campers in their front yard. I'm a redneck at heart but c'mon.
Looking north of Bangor
Confused why everyone's a hillbilly.
When I want to buy random old shit, I look north of Bangor. $100 means a lot more to them than it does to me, you could buy that guys whole yard for $400 and a case of Twisted Tea.
The coast stays nicer (and more liberal, $$$) I still think northern NH is better than Maine, but we don't have legal grass
In the next town over the old man finally past away, and his kids listed it last week. Wife and I looked at it 5 years ago when the old man listed it and then pulled it. Someone had told him how much the wood was worth on it, its since been cut. It was in the town of Bowdoinham, very rural and country like area. They just pulled the listing last night according to my agent.
North of Bangor is where we go to buy project vehicles, sleds, and guns for cheap come tax time. Seems like people are always hard up for cash, and there are some good buys to be had. A coworker bought a 100 acre farm up there because it was cheaper than a good house, he flips older vehicles and stores them in the barn.Thanks. Unfortunately my price range is absurdly low. Most of what I'm looking at is an hour north of Bangor. Found a clean suitable house in Athens. But the Hillbilly stereotype is strong there. Neighbors have stacks of old tires, abandoned vehicles and pop-up campers in their front yard. I'm a redneck at heart but c'mon.
Fuck Manchvegas and that BS. You can either commute in to work for a few extra $ an hour, or work local for less. A friend commutes from Wakefield to Manchester for some big engineering firm, for big money, and hates it. Claims if you factor in the drive time, working locally was similar pay on a 40 hr week. if you work the amount of OT that spends driving, he would make more money working in a smaller machine shop.
If it goes well find a good siding contractor. Might be worth more than you think. Have a buddy in Washington that will go take old shakes and siding off builds being demoed and the use them for repairs on his clients houses. Finding good shakes is damn near impossible in any quantity.
Have you ever driven here? If not, sit this one out. MA/ Southern NH traffic/driving is its own animal. And we're talking 1-1/2hr commute. # hours of the day you're not being paid, bumper to bumper doing 70+
I hiked the Long Trail in Vermont with my brothers when I was 8 yo. Havent driven anywhere near there. Sorry to hear about the urbanization, it's everywhere. I almost finished the cedar siding on my build in the Northern Rockies where it is much drier. Amish contractor finished the remaining high gable wall with heavy window install. I used 8-inch wide Cedar boards that are a bevel in cross section with Cabot natural stain. Both sides and ends. I know full well I will be re-staining the south west exposure within 3 years, but at least nothing rots here. I used thousands of tiny stainless shank nails per the recommendations of the wood manufacturer and Simpson Strong tie.
