Podcast Short: Vinyl Siding Over Failing Cedar

[@tonykelch3591]

So, can you go over Cedar with vinyl or not? It was never answered...

[@REDACTED-1]

Yes, you can. Just consider air flow and the challenges with flashing.

[@claireh.7605]

Old house people say to leave old growth cedar siding in place as it is material you cannot get anymore and will last forever. I listened to this episode and started tearing off my perfectly good old cedar shingles because they have lead paint on them. Now I realize I could have just covered them with vinyl siding and fanfold insulation underneath or scalded it with a Cobra infrared gun and 6 mil plastic on the ground

[@coldfinger459sub0]

Put vinyl siding over my duplex house built in 1917 33 years ago stucco exterior walls. 2 inch rigid foam under vinyl siding as insulation with new vinyl insulated windows. Still in excellent condition. The foam wall insulation is a summer time life saver west wall Setting sun ☀️ Added 3” foam roof at same time. No moisture problem open attic rafters or vinyl covered walls inside wood nice and dry excellent condition. Best investment of a life time. Just Recoating with White silicone the foam roof now good for another 10+ and redcoat again No reason the roof can’t last 50+ years vinyl siding to.

[@Pepe-dq2ib]

Hy house is built in the 60s and it still has the original cedar sidings. I have taken it off a few times to redo sheathing insulation and replacing windows and the sidings still look very good. I hate vinyl siding, if my cedar goes bad, i'll replace it with new cedar.

[@REDACTED-1]

The damn woodpeckers ruin it.

[@TapelessDrywallFinishing]

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[@Hello-zf5lq]

I hate you guys. I had perfect 80 year old cedar shingle siding with lead paint on it. It had asphalt felt paper underneath and my garage wall was pristine underneath. I watched this video and started thinking my shingles are somehow bad due to age (they weren't despite their 80 year age due to being from old growth quality wood), so I started stripping them. I had a perfect 100 year system of cedar shingles and felt paper and just threw it away. I could have scraped them with the IR Cobra scraper using all lead paint precautions (p100 mask, tyvek suit, 6 mil plastic with holes made for rain water 10 ft in each direction); or put fanfolf insulation layer as base and then covered with vinyl siding and kept the R1 of the old shingles with the R1 of the fanfold: kzbin.info/www/bejne/emKsq5-wiMeNo9Esi=F7FBUxU8kOsMg_9b&t=752