Q: We are negotiating to buy a house with cedar siding. It has a fairly new paint job, but the paint is peeling badly. What’s the best way to remove the peeling paint? The siding appears to be ...

When contractors quote you a price per square of cedar siding, they refer to the cost of materials needed to cover 100 square feet of surface area. For example, if your house’s exterior walls ...

I recommend taking a small area of siding and trying these products out. That way, you’ll have a feel for how your cedar will respond prior to starting on the whole house. The cedar may not ...

so we can match the look of the cedar. This was important to me because I love the look of our house, and I didn’t want to alter its character or charm. We are going with James Hardie siding ...

On the easternmost edge of Long Island's South Fork, the weather is "unforgiving," said Montauk-based builder Jason Biondo. "The hot, the cold, the wind, the rain, the snow," detailed Biondo, who ...

They won’t scratch automotive paint, so it’s safe to use it on your house siding, windows and every other surface. I would use a normal scrub brush with aggressive bristles to clean algae from ...

Rainwater leaking from a gutter ends up behind siding and causes a wall to rot. At some point in the past, an owner had vinyl siding installed over old siding. The extra thickness of the vinyl ...

A classic choice, wood siding costs $4 to $15 per square foot. Different woods have different qualities, and longer-lasting, rot-resistant species such as redwood and cedar fall at the higher end ...