Applying Clapboard Siding

To get the right shape nail a starter strip around the bottom of the wall then scribe a line around the wall at the height of the top of your 4 inch clapboard.

Applying clapboard siding. Work has begun on the exterior finish. Seeing that fence post today standing plumb and solid makes me feel glad that all the steps i did were well worth it. Plywood sheathing provides a sound flat base for lap siding. By carter silva on february 6 2015.

Slip 12 inch wide splines of felt behind the corner boards and the side casings next to doors. Hang the starter course. Co written by emanuel silva. In my last article i wrote about installing a fence post.

How to hang clapboard siding clapboard overview. Staple a layer of house wrap to the sheathing working from the bottom up and overlapping joints by several inches so that any water that reaches it will shed down the wall. Make a mark in the exact middle of a length of 6 inch clapboard and tack it to the wall with one nail so that its top edge touches the scribed layout line at the center mark. The recommended exposure distances exposure distance is the amount of siding left exposed to the weather are 4 inches for 6 inch siding 8 inches for 10 inch siding and so on as shown in figure 3.

Although it was dirty and hard work i enjoyed every minute of it. Contractors are installing the cedar trim casing and grounds and continue on to begin installing the clapboard siding.