FamilyMan
Fidelis ad Mortem
My wife and I (hopefully) are closing on our first house this week. The house we are buying was completely gutted and redone from the studs out, and a new addition attached. The people who flipped this house did a very good job. Everyone seems to agree that this is "as close to a new house as you can get without new home hassles" and as I liked to add "...new home cost."
The only thing I noticed was missing from our new house, was a mailbox. On the street, there are several homes with mailboxes mounted on the house, and several with boxes on posts at the street.
I went to the local post office and asked what we'd need to do and was originally told we could put up either one on the road or one on the house. At my last trip to the post office, my wife at my side, we were told that we would have to put the box up on the side of the house.
Having never attempted to hang something on the side of a house before, I don't really know where to begin. I read online that I could use S hooks to secure the new mailbox to the siding, rather than splitting the siding by drilling.
For the record, I would have preferred to put a mailbox on a post by the road, but it doesn't look like the USPS wants to let that one go. My wife suggested putting a mailbox in the ground next to our front porch rather than mess around with hanging it on our door.
At the risk of being told "go to Home Depot, and read the back of the box its simple dummy," I figured I'd ask if anyone here had experience/suggestions on it.
The only thing I noticed was missing from our new house, was a mailbox. On the street, there are several homes with mailboxes mounted on the house, and several with boxes on posts at the street.
I went to the local post office and asked what we'd need to do and was originally told we could put up either one on the road or one on the house. At my last trip to the post office, my wife at my side, we were told that we would have to put the box up on the side of the house.
Having never attempted to hang something on the side of a house before, I don't really know where to begin. I read online that I could use S hooks to secure the new mailbox to the siding, rather than splitting the siding by drilling.
For the record, I would have preferred to put a mailbox on a post by the road, but it doesn't look like the USPS wants to let that one go. My wife suggested putting a mailbox in the ground next to our front porch rather than mess around with hanging it on our door.
At the risk of being told "go to Home Depot, and read the back of the box its simple dummy," I figured I'd ask if anyone here had experience/suggestions on it.