The siding on my house (maybe I'll get it right?)
I don't know if it's aluminum it might be vinyl that would make more sense wouldn't it. It's a light gray if that helps! All the houses on my street have this siding, the house is only 5 years old. Couldn't I just get a piece of duct tape & cover it up? You know duct tape fixes everything. It's behind a bush so you couldn't see the duct tape. I can't afford to replace the piece of siding right now. Here's another question, my roof is a light gray. On the back side of the house the roof is showing black streaks. What is causing this? Can anything be done about it other than replacing the shingles? There isn't any trees near the house. While I'm on a role now, I need to put new weather striping on my glass door that is in front of my front door. Do you know what type I'm taking about? You can take the glass out if you want to and put a screen in it. I thought about buying the type of weather striping that simply sticks onto doors, would that work or do I need to take the weather striping with me to the store to get the exact type for the door? Thanks for all your help & patience with me. Lisa
On Friday, Apr 30, 2004, at 19:50 US/Eastern, Quiltingfriend@... If the house is only five years old, it's probably vinyl. Add to that the hole--it's fairly easy to put a hole in vinyl, but not so easy to do the same with aluminum. Forget the duct tape. That would look bad and it wouldn't last. Go to any home store and buy a tube of something gray--gray silicone, gray Sika, gray whatever--and fill the hole in with it. Tool it a little so it feathers into the siding, and you're done. (Easy tool: wet your finger and rub the goop.) This is algae. Shingles have been made algae-resistant (to make an algae-resistant shingle they add copper to the asphalt) for years and years, so you've got the El Cheapo shingles on your roof. It's easy to fix this. You can buy little zinc strips at hardware stores, or copper flashing at any store that sells pressure-treated lumber. Take some of these strips, put a little bit of roof cement on the back of them, and shove them under your shingles so about half an inch of the strip sticks out. When it rains, the copper or zinc will leach out of the strips and run down the roof; this will kill the algae. You can use any weatherstripping you like so long as it fits where you need it. -- --jmowreader
Malco makes a siding removal tool that makes it easy to pry the broken piece off without damaging the ones that aren't broken. It looks a little like an old church-key beer can opener. It's cheap, it works and its only problem is Malco stinks at order fulfillment to "non-traditional" vendors like home centers--I've had a Malco order in for months and the stuff's not here yet--so this thing is hard to find at either Lowe's or Home Depot. OTOH, they treat wholesalers like Norandex as if they were royalty, so look in the phone book for vinyl siding distributors in your area and you can get one of these fairly easily. -- --jmowreader