So kudos to Adams Home Exteriors (or whoever may have exerted pressure) to help them deploy more than one person on the siding project. In one day, more work had been done than the previous week. Of course the project is still 2-1/2 weeks behind, but it seems like one can see the end.
However, there are some issues with the new quick siding (see video below).
So the siding has a half inch of play in it, forward and backward. I thought that the middle was not nailed in, but the installer pulled a piece out to show my wife, and it was. The problem is that it has much more play in it than the front of the house. Now, I am wondering which side is done better and which one is worse.
Also in the video, is the fact that the top course of siding does not seem to have house wrap under it or at least there is no overlap and nailing surface for the next row of wrap that would go above it. After questioning Shawn Adams, he responded that the installer does not leave wrap overnight without something to protect it. Unfortunately, I can’t believe that response for two reasons:
- The siding was nailed in all the way on 16″ centers. If an installer knew he would need to rip out some nails, he would leave enough of the nail stem to pry it out. Further, why would he nail them every 16″ for just tacking them in overnight?
- How could he say that the installer doesn’t leave unprotected wrap when there is a 5′ x 8′ section that is unprotected and even has a few feet of wrap flapping in the wind?
The top course from the video was opened up so my wife could see that they used the wrap. Unfortunately, it doesn’t how that it overlapped with the row below it, and more worrisome, it looks like it bulges out a lot. In fact, I am worried that it may not have been put in the course below it but had instead been nailed with the wrap hanging downward and had then been folded up. Hopefully, it is bulging because it wasn’t nailed in very flatly and is puckering in the middle.