My 50 year old house has wood shingles siding. The shingles 90% look OK, 10% is either split, broken, popped up from the house or otherwise damaged. The paint on shingles is in very bad shape is it peels everywhere. I am planning an second story addition (currently second story does not extend as far as first story) so I need to decide what to do with siding. I like wood shingles very much. What would be the best approach in my case? Remove existing shingles, and new addition is complete put new shingles on entire house? Here the problem is that the house exterior is water repellant sheetrock and shingles are nailed to studs with nails with threads. I replaced windows this summer with new construction windows and had to enlarge window opening and trim shingles. It was virtually impossible to remove shingle boards without damaging either the board or exterior sheetrock. So by removing existing shingles I am afraid of severely damaging sheetrock. It has however positive moment. I would be able to put house wrap as currently my house has none and rigid insulation on exterior walls. I am also not sure if code allows putting wood shingles on non structural surface as my water repellant sheetrock. If I decide to keep existing shingles on existing house and put new shingles on new addition I have to somehow remove peeling paint before repainting and find shingles on addition to match existing shingles on rest of the house. What's the cost of wood shingles in Central NJ?
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19 years ago