Cincinnati siding installation guidance
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Cincinnati's famous 'seven hills' terrain shaped the city's growth as directly as its river: steep grades pushed early development into hillside neighborhoods that were, for decades, connected to downtown by a network of inclines built to haul people and goods up slopes too steep for horses and streetcars alone. That same hillside geography still shapes exterior and drainage work across much of the Cincinnati metro today, and the German immigrant housing boom that filled in Over-the-Rhine and many surrounding neighborhoods in the second half of the nineteenth century left the region with a large, aging stock of masonry and closely built homes.
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Substrate condition, moisture barriers, flashing at windows and doors, insulation, and ventilation behind the siding matter as much as the material itself.
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Substrate condition, moisture barriers, flashing at windows and doors, insulation, and ventilation behind the siding matter as much as the material itself.
See a sensible project process →Local history
Cincinnati's famous 'seven hills' terrain shaped the city's growth as directly as its river: steep grades pushed early development into hillside neighborhoods that were, for decades, connected to downtown by a network of inclines built to haul people and goods up slopes too steep for horses and streetcars alone. That same hillside geography still shapes exterior and drainage work across much of the Cincinnati metro today, and the German immigrant housing boom that filled in Over-the-Rhine and many surrounding neighborhoods in the second half of the nineteenth century left the region with a large, aging stock of masonry and closely built homes.
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“Cincinnati was founded in 1788 on the Ohio River and grew quickly into the 'Queen City,' a major nineteenth-century port and manufacturing center so dominant in pork processing that it was widely nicknamed 'Porkopolis.' Large waves of German immigrants settled just north of downtown in what became Over-the-Rhine, named for the Miami and Erie Canal that separated the neighborhood from the rest of the city much as the Rhine separated regions of Germany, and the district still holds one of the largest collections of nineteenth-century Italianate architecture in the country.”
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