Actually, most people would be snoring at that ungodly hour. The neighbor across the street used to have brown vinyl siding. Mind you, this is in a dense urban neighborhood consisting exclusively with brick buildings. Even worse, the siding ran vertically instead of horizontally.<\/p>\n
Ghastly – plain and simple.<\/p>\n
In April they removed the vinyl siding and added slate shingles to the top floor wall. Despite the facade being flat (not sloped), it still seemed to work. Since then (it is now nearly 4 months later…August) the building has been exposed and incomplete (I’m guessing it was insulation I’ve had the pleasure of looking at for the past few months).<\/p>\n
Until yesterday.<\/p>\n
The lower floors are now being covered in copper. Yes, copper. Bright and shiny, brand new, penny-looking copper. Perhaps when it’s weathered green it will look better. But vertical copper strips? (what’s up with that owner and his insistence on vertical facades?)<\/p>\n
But what REALLY gets to me is that they began work this morning at 7:00AM. Now, my little court (alley) is a mini-canyon of brick buildings – all hard surfaces that reflect sound. And copper is a rather metalic and loud material to be hammering onto a facade – especially at that hour of the day. I mean, I know contractors start work early…and if they were installing carpet INDOORS that would be one thing. But out in front there were two guys hammering copper onto the exterior of this building.<\/p>\n
And that’s how I started my morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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