Contentment by design - Living - Places photo #1150

We live in a forested wildland area on a couple acres filled with beautiful Ponderosas. Since areas like this are prone to wildfires, we have been doing wildfire mitigation work for a couple decades now, trimming the lower limbs and any dead limbs out of the trees so that a grass fire would be less likely to jump up into them.

As our climate has been warming, the risk of wildfires has increased, so this year we took the additional step of having our home's wooden siding, trim, soffit, and fascia removed and replaced with a fireproof cement-fiber product called JamesHardie. It took a quite unpleasant and anxiety inducing week of continuous loud hammering, but we got through it and the results are really nice.

We were surprised the next day when an inspector showed up to review the work. Fortunately, the inspector was as pleased as us with the result.