Built my house in1990 with spruce clap board siding Big Mistake.Three paint jobs later wood is splitting, and time is against me just turned sixty.Do i have to remove the clps in order to reside with vinyl,my gut feeling is yes; can any one make my gut say no.
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You can side over it with vinyl -- it's done all the time. Whether you SHOULD or not is another question. You lose all door/window reveals and open yourself up to more water damage issues.
I'm wondering, though, why you have so much trouble keeping paint on that spruce. If it was halfway decent material, installed properly, and properly primed and painted then it should only be about halfway through its second coat of paint.
Spruce is definitely harder to keep paint on than pine is. The plitting could be from improper nailing. Since the house dats from '90 it might not have been primed with oil, and might have been painted without sanding the mill glaze off. And as you mention, there could be other moisture issues. If the paint iis peeling off in sheets or large blisters, i would suspect moisutre from inside that would create more problems if vibnyl traps that water in the wall cavity.But other than all that, the basic answer is that yes, the vinyl can go over the existing, but extreme care should go into flashings around windows. Every vinyl job I have removed showed rot art window bases frpm poor or non-existant flashing there. FHB did an issue on the subject of fine vinyl siding about two years ago
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The paint is not peeling,it was primed and painted at the mill and they did a very light coat. I should have painted it myself,tried to save time.Its the checking that concerns me,is there any product that i can use to fill them.And yes the nails were set a tad to deep.
It was primed and painter from the mill,and because the longest piece was only sixfeet , it created a lot of butt joints.I do think spruce is a poor choice for any out door project. Live and learn.
Ah, "factory primed". That's a recipe for disaster. And no piece longer than 6' sounds downright odd -- you probably got scrap.Yeah, I guess I'd say tear it off and install vinyl or fiber-cement.
I'm thinking that someone needs to set up staging, so how much more could it cost to strip off the existing before applying the vinyl?
Get you window and doors detailed and flashed properly, probably have a little work to do at the sophitts and rakes as well.
The only thing I dislike more than vinyl, is vinyl over old siding.
Good luck.
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