I'm looking at buying my first house. Hoping to sell it again fairly soon.
There is a lot of work to be done, and I am trying to be realistic about my budget. One of the biggest possible expenses is the external vinyl siding. I'm not sure how old it is, but it is AWFUL. Etched beyond the powers of cleaning, two-tone (dirty white and dirty lemon yellow, I'll try to attach pictures), and a little wonky looking at the join between the two colours.
I'm going to be replacing all the windows in the house, and hopefully adding a new one, which will fuck up the siding even more.
I'm having a hard time figuring out a number for changing the vinyl siding to NEW vinyl siding. I'm pretty damn certain that hiring it out in its entirety is completely out of my budget range. I'm hoping to spend no more than $5000, all in, figuring in siding, house wrap, fascia etc. I don't know what's under the siding yet. The house originally would have been wood sheathing. It was built in 1950, and it's a wartime house, so it's really just a box. There is no overhang whatsoever, and no inside corners.
I'm 27, female, not massively experienced in DIY but expect i'll be a bit better by the time I did this project, and will likely be able to co-opt the charity of one carpenter, my cousin, at least for a bit of it.
So - has anyone DIYed this? Is it within the realm of possibility, particularly factoring in my desire to spend no more than $5000 and hopefully less?