Assess Existing Siding Damage

[Music] so we're working on priming the house today and this is um we see this a lot right here and this looks really bad this is composite siding I like to just say it's glorified cardboard it's not really wood it looks like wood but it's just made of ground up wood fibers glue just kind of like a paper pressed over the top of it and when it gets wet swells starts to come apart starts to break down deteriorate we power washed it over here original paint job over 20 years ago and this has got a lot of heat and um water damage over here and we're going