Hi All, I am doing lots of renovations to an old house. Next step is to paint the exterior of the house. I want to renovate the look of the house by removing some of the wood it has. See the picture : [ATTACH]38613[/ATTACH] So I am not sure what material it is done from but I think it is some kind of stucco panels, I am guessing the wood is to cover the lines in between the panels and not to hold them in place... am I right? If so, I am thinking I can take the wood (marked in red) and use sanded quickrete to fill the gaps between panels .. Is this reasonable? doable? Any suggestions? Thanks

I have a few 1" holes in my siding where water spigots were removed and another 1.5" hole where a pvc pipe was removed. I filled the holes with expandable foam and put metal plates over the holes on the interior of the sillplate where they exited from the basement. On the outside on the otherhand it is ugly, I have cut the foam flush with the siding and spray painted it. How do I go about matching full panels of vinyl siding? Alternately, how could I repair just these small holes?