{"id":8559,"date":"2005-04-30T18:38:37","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T01:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=8559"},"modified":"2015-05-15T20:28:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T03:28:45","slug":"8559","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=8559","title":{"rendered":"Arthur – cracks and siding"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 2015: I started the Arthur as part of a Greenleaf community build in 2005, and at the time we blogged our progress on the Greenleaf forum. After a few site upgrades the old community blog has become hard to link to and I\u2019m redoing my website anyway, so I decided to move those posts over here and backdate them. Sorry for any weirdness that results!<\/em><\/p>\n

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So, I glued the gables on. Next step is supposed to be the porch but since I haven’t painted yet, that should come first. I decided to use siding on this house so obviously that has to go on before I paint. Of course, as I thought this through I realized I should have done the siding before adding the roof (or at least the gables) to make it easier to fit the siding on the triangular parts of the walls. Oops.<\/p>\n

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First, I used wood filler to seal up some cracks where the walls went together. There will be trim covering these on the outside and wallpaper on the inside, but I just wanted to make sure the cracks wouldn’t be visible from any angle.<\/p>\n

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Then I started my siding. I am using birch siding from Corona, which comes in individual strips. I cut several strips to size and started with the front of the house. The siding cuts easily with scissors. The edges can be sanded with an emery board.<\/p>\n

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I’m bad at drawing straight lines, so rather than draw guide lines on the house, I am using a 3\/8″ wide piece of balsa to make sure that each strip of siding is the correct amount of space away from the one below it.<\/p>\n

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The strips are curling as I glue them on, so I am putting on a few, weighting them down with paint cans, and waiting them to dry before I do a few more. This is time intensive, obviously, but no more so than gluing on other pieces of the house. Next up, after siding: paint!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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