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welcome back to the homestead everyone
welcome back to the channel
tonight we're in back of our home here
doing a little DIY home repair for you
guys this specifically is about how to
replace siding that has rotted and this
specifically is team 111 siding from
rotted from the bottom up we're gonna
take a section here and repair it for
you and show you how to do it properly
we're also gonna talk a little bit about
what not to do in terms of home
construction that causes issues like
this so stay with us if you want to see
us just replace the siding and how to do
that and you're not interested in
replacing the structure skip ahead to
right here in the video well here's the
main cause of our issue right here we
have a deck that was improperly attached
to the house
there is no ledger board here that is
visible and this portion did have a
ledger board on it but it was screwed
directly through the siding directly
right on top of the siding right into
the house and that is not the way to do
it so I think I mentioned in a previous
video that about the other side of our
house about how bad this deck
construction was on the house and here
are the issues that it's caused
you can see the first 2x6 is completely
disintegrated also right above it is our
rim joist and that one in a certain few
areas is also completely disintegrated
right there is pretty bad and also this
area here where the rot has started to
go into the end of the two by six floor
joist and we're probably going to sister
up a floor joist there to give us some
added extra support it's routed through
two out of the three two by sixes on
this perimeter beam is very unstable and
not a good situation
so whenever doing any work like this you
want to make sure you create a support
structure if you're going to be working
on any structure of the house you need
to replace the carrying capacity of with
that structure you're removing with
something else so in this case this is
not carrying any any weight at all but
this jack post is and we've got another
one just behind us over here
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no you we've also got another issue in
this spot and that is our moisture
barrier our vapor barrier here on the
house now this bill this house was built
in the early 1980s and of course tar
paper was used they didn't have the
modern house rap or if they did they
didn't use it out here this is probably
cheaper but it is not extended down to
protect the rest of the wood structure
all the way to the foundation and that's
a big problem they I don't know if they
ran out of money or ran out of time or
what or is just to contain the
insulation but it was done improperly
because it should have extended down
that would have given a little tiny bit
of protection to all that water coming
back into the house off the deck and
maybe this would have lasted a long time
more than it actually did but I'm really
surprised to see this or maybe I'm not
too surprised to see this
that's how homes home construction goes
sometimes let's fix this siding show you
how to do that
okay first things first you're gonna
want a probe or use a moisture meter and
find out how far up your siding is
rotten at that point we need to cut it
off but we need a straight line so let's
use our chalk line and snap a line
straight across we're gonna run our
circular saw all the way down and that's
going to give us a nice straight line to
work with to put our flashing and our
new paper behind it another way of our
setting cut to where we need it to be we
are going to cut the old tar paper to be
even with the bottom of our sighting the
reason for that is our flashing needs to
go behind this building paper and that
will cause any water that comes down in
between the siding ends the old tar
paper here to come down onto our siding
and come out of the house and away from
the new siding which is gonna go up
underneath it from there we are gonna
put our new wrap behind all of that and
up underneath the old one think of
shingles and how they're layered the
water comes down on the outside and it
won't come up behind it if you put it
this way it's going to get behind so
everything needs to be layered like
shingles as you come out and that's
going to prevent any other water damage
from getting in here or getting on our
new piece of siding which we're gonna
put on the bottom here I'll show you how
to do that in a second let's get our new
house wrap tucked up behind the existing
house wrap tuck it up there a good three
or four inches and we'll get it nice and
flush
once our house wrap is in place and it's
tucked up behind our old house wrap our
felt paper we are going to go by and
just put a little bit of silicone over
top of each one of those staples we
didn't have the proper fasteners to
fasten the house wrap but this is
perfectly acceptable now it's time to
install our flashing that goes in
between the two pieces of siding we're
going to go up behind our existing or
old house wrap that felt paper and on
top of the new felt paper so it's just
underneath our siding now you want to
leave a gap between the bottom of the
siding and the new flashing and that is
because if any water sits on this
flashing at all it's going to wick into
the bottom of our siding cut and we
should paint the bottom of this and
we're probably going to do that but you
want to stand it off at least 1/8 of an
inch from the bottom of your existing
siding cut out for any obstructions like
we've got a water spigot down here and
tack it into place with a few finish
nails through the siding so our last
part of the process of course is to hang
our new piece of siding now we've cut it
to a length where it comes completely
over our beam and actually hangs down
about an inch inch and a half below that
beam that is something that they didn't
do originally in which is also incorrect
so we're just going to Snug this up
align our siding with deciding above and
we're going to come underneath here now
notice we've also painted the top for a
little extra protection we painted the
top of our new piece of siding here
gonna tack that into place with some
finished nails we did have to special
order this particular flashing because
we couldn't get it deep enough for our T
111 siding but you can find that we
found it on homedepot.com
and we had a special order to the store
which was not a big problem I'll put the
link to this particular one that fits
with the T 111 sighting in the
description below if you want to go
check that out also any of our tools
that we have here that helped us along
in the process those are always going to
be in the description below on our
Amazon store so if you want to hit that
link go over there and check those out
we'd really appreciate it it's a really
simple process and that's all there is
to replacing this sighting make sure you
get everything overlapping properly so
all the water comes out behind and over
the top on this particular flashing we
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we'll see you next Tuesday on our next
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