Working on a proposal for completing the unfinished work of a guy who could not hang vinyl, nor do much else.
Front porch has a finished half wall around it with break for the stairs. (The T&G fir floorboards are rotting cause there’s nowhere for the water to go when it rains.) The guy installing the siding took the vinyl right to the top of the cap rail on this rail/wall, so the J-channel is flush with the top of the cap rail. (The rail has 4 posts going through it supporting the roof above, oh btw.) From J-channel to J-channel, including the caprail, is 12 full inches.
So the HO hauls out a box of coil stock and said the siding guy was gonna wrap the rail with it. Then I understood why the guy had taken his cash and bailed.
So the big question is, how to protect the cap rail (and J-channels seams) without ripping off and redoing the siding (installed over existing claps with 1/2″ foam insulation. The posts run the length from pier to roof beam and I’m not real eager to cut them. I’m toying with the idea of buying a sheet (or 2) of Azek (3/4x4x8 is $170) and ripping it into 14″ wide lengths, and cutting them in pieces and notched to fit between the posts (which will be wrapped with the vinyl.)
That means seams at each post where they butt into each other.
Any other ideas out there?
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The Azek isnt a bad idea...expensive ....but a good idea. At least it will bridge over everything. About the only material I can think of for that situation without getting into alot of other work and i assume the HO wants to keep the price down since he already lost alot from the original guys bailing out.