Comments for Jackie Craven http://jackiecraven.com Home of author and columnist Jackie Craven Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:56:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Comment on Journey of a Remodeled Victorian House by Delta http://jackiecraven.com/2011/03/24/removing-vinyl-siding/#comment-199 Delta Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:56:27 +0000 http://www.distantdwellings.com/jackiecraven/?p=151#comment-199 It's easy to say to preserve the look of the Victorian House but the ones that say that never had to climb 3 stories and paint the the house and trim. When your getting up there in age let see you climb that ladder to paint the house. If they made vinyl siding back then. I bet everyone would have used it also It’s easy to say to preserve the look of the Victorian House but the ones that say that never had to climb 3 stories and paint the the house and trim.

When your getting up there in age let see you climb that ladder to paint the house.

If they made vinyl siding back then. I bet everyone would have used it also

]]> Comment on Journey of a Remodeled Victorian House by Save The Vinyl for Records http://jackiecraven.com/2011/03/24/removing-vinyl-siding/#comment-198 Save The Vinyl for Records Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:31:33 +0000 http://www.distantdwellings.com/jackiecraven/?p=151#comment-198 A house like the one pictured really needs to be preserved in its original form; just about any covering would obscure its details. But plenty of plainer houses which would look just fine in brick, stucco, stone or fiber-cement siding get ruined by vinyl every year. Worse, while one vinyl sided house can be ignored, when a whole street is covered with it, or build-up with new, vinyl-clad houses, the result looks like a glorified trailer park. Thin, hollow pieces of plastic that are barely attached to a house just can't make it look good. A house like the one pictured really needs to be preserved in its original form; just about any covering would obscure its details. But plenty of plainer houses which would look just fine in brick, stucco, stone or fiber-cement siding get ruined by vinyl every year. Worse, while one vinyl sided house can be ignored, when a whole street is covered with it, or build-up with new, vinyl-clad houses, the result looks like a glorified trailer park. Thin, hollow pieces of plastic that are barely attached to a house just can’t make it look good.

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