My 50 year old house has wood shingles siding. The shingles 90% look OK, 10%
is either split, broken, popped up from the house or otherwise damaged. The
paint on shingles is in very bad shape is it peels everywhere. I am planning
an second story addition (currently second story does not extend as far as
first story) so I need to decide what to do with siding. I like wood
shingles very much. What would be the best approach in my case? Remove
existing shingles, and new addition is complete put new shingles on entire
house? Here the problem is that the house exterior is water repellant
sheetrock and shingles are nailed to studs with nails with threads. I
replaced windows this summer with new construction windows and had to
enlarge window opening and trim shingles. It was virtually impossible to
remove shingle boards without damaging either the board or exterior
sheetrock. So by removing existing shingles I am afraid of severely damaging
sheetrock. It has however positive moment. I would be able to put house wrap
as currently my house has none and rigid insulation on exterior walls. I am
also not sure if code allows putting wood shingles on non structural surface
as my water repellant sheetrock. If I decide to keep existing shingles on
existing house and put new shingles on new addition I have to somehow remove
peeling paint before repainting and find shingles on addition to match
existing shingles on rest of the house. What's the cost of wood shingles in
Central NJ?