Electrical and air-conditioning pipe/duct after reinstallation. Old siding above (painted ugly pink), new primed-but-unpainted siding below. New Ply-Gem bathroom window in the upper right corner.

The old air conditioner probably uses older no-longer-legal Freon coolant; when that fails, we will replace it and the gas furnace with an electrically-powered heat pump.

Close-up of the reattachment area. The round black meter (attached with #8 screws to the siding) measures the negative air pressure created by the radon pump, the white bulb at the bottom of the exhaust pipe. The radon pump is powered through the (too long) gray plastic conduit, from the shutoff switch beneath the electrical outlet. Pump and outlet are powered through a romex running up the air-conditioner hose cover and through the air conditioner hole in the upper siding, then through the basement ceiling to the load center (circuit breaker box) on the north wall of the basement, 20A GFCI breaker #32.

Closeup of the attachment of the hose cover to the siding; I cut nine 5-inch-wide pieces of new lap siding (turned upside down) and lapped them upwards from the bottom. That created a bumpy overlap, so I faced the wall-side of the metal hose cover with compliant gasket material, attaching the whole shebang with wood screws.

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