Nope.....

image from Clipart Library

.....not finished yet *sigh*

This was taken the year we moved in, when all the exterior work to the house was about to start, although we had already had the windows replaced by this point.

And this was, as you can see, taken a couple of years later.  Apart from the porch, the work was all finished.

Fast forward four years and although the porch was now done, by the end of June scaffolding was back again albeit on a smaller scale! 

The weather up here is very hard on paint finishes, both wood and metal.  The wooden cladding around the dormer windows was starting to show signs of needing to be repainted again, with some of the wood actually needing to be replaced.

Bearing in mind that it had only been four years since the previous painting had taken place, we made the decision to have all the old wood covered with uPVC cladding.

Thankfully the wooden finials were fine, so Shug simply painted them white to match the cladding.

When we had the roof replaced, George told us that he thought the finials had been made from pitch pine, which I understand is a very durable wood.

Shug did have to make a few repairs to the old cladding before he topped it off with the uPVC, and needless to say the weather did interfere with the job slightly so it took a little longer to complete than it would otherwise have done 😄

Just a reminder: before.....

.....and after 😊