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Skirting on the Cheap
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:48 am
by JeepsOLot
In the town I will be living, Habitat for Humanity has a deconstruction section at their Restore thrift store. This is stuff that was saved from places that were being demolished. I found some plastic siding that looks like cedar siding. It was $1 a 3' x 18" section, so, I bought enough to skirt my place for $40, plus $36 for J channel to finish it. I did a small section just to see how it looked, not too bad, I think!
What do ya think?
Jerry
Re: Skirting on the Cheap
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:15 pm
by Greg
Right place at the right time!
Greg
Re: Skirting on the Cheap
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:31 pm
by JeepsOLot
Re: Skirting on the Cheap
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:40 am
by JD
I'd really recommend having a small gravel barrier with landscape cloth underneath to help keep vegetation growth away from the skirting or if so inclined, use a good spray to keep it away.. A weedeater will eat up the skirting. A lawn mower can also throw rocks hard enough to punch holes in it as well. Don't aim the discharge at the home when you are close to it.
Re: Skirting on the Cheap
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:49 pm
by JeepsOLot
I'm planning on doing something like that at the bottom, but, for now, I just want it sealed under there. I still need to put in strips on the ground to hold the bottom of the panels, hopefully this weekend.
Jerry
Re: Skirting on the Cheap
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:59 pm
by JeepsOLot
Got the back of the home done today. The area under the bay windows was a little tricky, but, it worked nicely.
When I got the place, this is what the same area looked like:
Cleaned up nicely.
Jerry
Re: Skirting on the Cheap
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:03 pm
by Trudi
Great find and your hard work is paying off!
Re: Skirting on the Cheap
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:55 pm
by 750chop
i like this alot! would look real nice if you painted the outside of the house to match the skirting.