Siding and ramps

Well, work and other things have been keeping us busy but I am finally back working on the house. Some siding arrived last week and went up this weekend. One side of the house is now completely finished! The south side should be following shortly. The rail is up on the ramp though the horizontal pieces need to be trimmed. Neil made some handrail brackets for us and those have been installed, sans handrails. So I'll be plugging away at the siding for hopefully the near future trying to get it complete by the end of the summer. Ignore all the junk on the ground; that's not part of the design.

The west side is now complete. The siding should gray out quickly and assimilate with the rest of the siding within a year, I would guess. The siding has been put up in four installments with as much as 6 months between and has grayed out nicely.

More on the south side, too. We're up to the top of the doors and ready to run the first course over the doors.

The railing is up on the ramp. The horizontal members just need to be trimmed.

Front view of handrail bracket.

The handrail will get mortised onto the brackets and sit flush with the underside of the top horizontal plate.