How To Install Spruce Clapboard Siding
Put a level starter strip around the house at the bottom of the wall as a starting point for clapboard and to mark the bottom for the corner boards.
How to install spruce clapboard siding. Contractors are installing the cedar trim casing and grounds and continue on to begin installing the clapboard siding. Install clapboards by face nailing them to the house studs with 1 1 4 in. Use a strip the same thickness as the top of. In my last article i wrote about installing a fence post.
By carter silva on february 6 2015. Step 8 siding beside windows photo by david carmack. Place nail just above the overlap. Penetration into solid wood using one ring shank nail per stud spaced at a maximum of 24 in.
Co written by emanuel silva. Join the clapboards with scarf joints as in step 3. If more than one clapboard is needed to span a wall snap a chalk line between the marks on the corner boards on top of the course being overlapped. How to install wood lap clapboard or beveled siding part 1.
Carefully slide the notched piece of siding into place. Keep nails in 1 from edges. Take care not to nail through the overlap of two pieces. Seeing that fence post today standing plumb and solid makes me feel glad that all the steps i did were well worth it.
Work has begun on the exterior finish. Natural wood siding lap clapboard or beveled is still a common exterior finish.