Home Improvement Today?

I have the Home Depot app on my phone, and you can scan any barcode in the store and it will tell you the price. Usually there is a bundle barcode on the bundle packaging, and a individual barcode individual items.

 

Good to know, I have the app, never knew it had that capability. Thanks

 

Lowe's ranged from $7.50-$14 per stud for me. All nonstructural. All I can think is the ones listed at $25 are structural.

 

Damn, so they are $25 each. Yea I don’t need anything structural. But honestly I’d rather just use wood studs at that price.

 

Removed a brick chimney this morning. Using this new Ryobi SDS Plus. Nice little tool. Took down 4' of chimney below the roof line in about one hour. Easy Peasy.

 

For those in the market, this cellulose is on clearance at Lowe's. Doesn't show stock on the website or app. $5.67/bag or $4.82/bag if you buy 30. There are some complaints about higher than normal plastic content but at the price you can't beat it.

 

I’ve thought about picking this up for old tile demo.

 

Hey everyone, Have a rock and mortar covering on the front of my house that got some earth/moisture ingress induced rot in the sheathing wood and decided to disassemble itself.

Plan of attack is to chip away the rock, pull the siding back behind the bush, scab in enough good ply/OSB to remove any and all rot plus a safety margin, add tyvek and mesh, and remortar a scratch pass, adding the rock back and grouting in the gaps to finish. Any steps I'm missing or things to keep in mind?

As well, I think that veneer stone mortar is what I need for scratch coat, rock adherence plus gap fill, but its all new to me, so if anyone has some knowledge to drop on that, I'm all ears.

 

It is a good deal right now when you add two high performance batteries, if you already have a charger. I got this tool, and two HP4.0ah Batteries for $219 + Tax, from Home Depot.

 

Was that OSB. Looks like it’s going to be a can of worms. Expect probably 3-4 times the damage you see right now. I’m guessing the sheathing behind the siding is going to be the same at least a foot or two form the stoned area. Also probably damage behind the stair area. Hopefully the studs aren’t rotted, but I’m going to guess at least 1-2 of them are from 6” up from the sill plate. And that’s probably gonna be damaged too.

 

It seems like OSB (at one point) from looking at it. I did some cleanup after that photo was taken. Wood behind the siding 3rd and 4th strip from the bottom is good, so its really just what it looks like behind the bottom 2 strips. Behind the uncovered stonework is really what I'm dreading because its all TBD at this point.

After scraping away the dirt, the sill plate is actually solid, to my surprise, as far as can be determined from knife probing the outward facing wood at the exposed area. Stud in the photo *appeared* to be adequate as well, although the bottom inch or two was a tiny bit punky. Thankfully Utah being arid, and the area in question being relatively protected helps.

Once I start chipping away the stone, we'll see how far down the rabbit hole I end up. As of right now, I estimate I'll need to replace at least the OSB up to the height of the very top of the concrete stairway. The plywood sheet ends at the stud about a foot inside of the siding where the window roughout framing is, so we'll see how far I have to go in that direction as well. I wasn't even thinking about *behind* the concrete step, so that's a good point-out, although one I'll be dreading now until Saturday when I can open it all up. Its concrete foundation on the other side of that step so IDK where the foundation does a stepdown and OSB sheating begins. Hopefully its about where the step drops down.

Let that be a lesson of why earth touching siding isn't to be tolerated. Ironically, the stonework fell away, because I went and raked and shoveled all of it down to 4" below, and it looks like the dirt was actually holding the facing up at that point cuz the stone gave way inside of a month after that.

Full house shot for context. Rot is bottom bottom right of the lower window left of the door.

 

I assume the batteries use the same charger as others? I have the one that came with my other ryobi tools

 

Is that a greenhouse behind your house?

 

I bet you call your front door blue.

 

No, thats the roofline of a massive addition to the high school near my house for a performing arts theater type deal. That photo is from 2019. Its done now and looks incredible.

 

Clearly "red" although we can agree to disagree on what shade of red it is. When I get home, I'll find the paint can and tell you definitively

 

That slope probably really saved your ass. Could of been a lot more water damage. That’s probably why the sill is ok. Just the OSB sucked up the water. I would replace with plywood if possible. You won’t be able to wrap the house wrap under the sill plate so I would probably find a really good caulk/sealant and run that along the bottom to seal any further moisture, and protect the replaced sheathing.

Having not realized the slope, you might actually be ok behind the steps. Hopefully that’s the case. Water damage and rot is usually always a big can of worms. And once you start there isn’t any going back. I think you lucked out a bit, and it won’t be too bad. Good luck!

 

Yes they do luckily.