It looks like this now.
Unfortunately I still have not found the hinges I ordered. So we moved on.The only two areas left that need shingling are the two areas where we replaced the rotted sill plate. Someone or at sometime dirt was piled up against the house. After we removed all the over grown shrubbery we realized that we also needed to remove quite a lot of dirt so that there was adequate drainage and so that the dirt was no longer in contact with the wood shingles.
Yesterday and today was spent shingling the west side of the family room or the library as it was referred to in the listing when we purchased the home.
Tomorrow we will finish this area and start on south side. 
This should complete the major shingling jobs until we remove the 1960 era window in the game room.Please excuse the photo's poor quality. It was nearly dark when I remembered that I needed to take a few photos.
Say there, you're shingling right down to the ground? So there are shingles in contact with the dirt?
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ReplyDeleteNext spring we will put rocks over the dirt like we have around the house.
The addition was built on a poured foundation so there is no concrete blocks etc for an exposed wall.
We removed quite a lot of dirt so that the ground slopes away and is not in contact with the shingles.
The west side has the least space between the shingles and ground. The south side has more exposed concrete and the ground slopes away better.
We wish we could have removed more dirt but that would have made the rest of the lawn and driveway higher.
That sounds like my old house. A few times a year I would get my trowel and patrol the foundation perimeter, often on my hands and knees burrowing through bushes, to scrape back any dirt that had encroached.
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