Build Your Own Siding Gauges For Less Than $5: How To Build A Shed ep 16
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2018
- Come learn how you can build your own shed! In this video I show how to build your own siding gauges for under $5. Save a bunch of money by building this specialized tool yourself instead of buying an expensive name brand one.
This video series will show you step-by-step everything required to build an 8' x 16' shed. Are you going to build a shed too? Mash that subscribe button to follow along!
Materials needed:
16 Gauge Steel Strips - StrongTies work great
Scrap Lumber
Small bolts and wing nuts
Tools required:
Something to cut metal
Tape measure
Carpenter's square
Bench Vise
Don't want to make your own siding gauges? Here's a link to some you can buy - this link will send a few pennies to help this channel, and does not cost you anything extra:
Gecko Gauge: amzn.to/2rJMzfh
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The company I work for make siding gauges out of the thick trim board. Cut a 8-9" piece. Our reveal is 6 3/4". So we cut a sliver of the block the width of the siding at a length of 6 3/4" out of the 8-9" block. Real simple. Cost nothing. Make it out of the fall off from thick trim.
Then you need 2 people to nail it on. Big waste of manpower and impossible on ladders and planks. Geckos are the best
Thank you! I knew someone out there had the ingenuity to make these cheap and easy. No longer worried about storing a (expensive) tool I may only use once.
Awesome, simple and no fuss.
Great, especially for a tool used once, perhaphs.
Thank you.
Absolutely brilliant, the hardest job was finding the strap. So easy to make and use. Your instructions were a joy to follow.
This is spot-on!!! Now if I was a contractor doing handyman work I wouldn't hesitate to buy the name brand tool but that guy I am NOT. I am like most watching this, building a garage finishing up the project, about to side the building all by myself. No big deal, as I did this to save money not waste it on tools that I will NEVER use again and have no desire to buy, use and then sell on Craigslist. I'll be making these with scrap metal in the garage.
THANKS A TON!!!
I appreciate these video that shows you how to build your own tools. This guy did a awsome job. Thanks a bunch.
Getting ready to put the siding on my shed. When I saw the price of this tool I knew there had to be a diy video out there. Thanks so much!
Very nicely done! Love the idea and how you made it look so easy. Gonna try this when I put up my shed.
Go Boise St. Proud to see a fellow Idahoan crafting ingenious work. This playlist has been so helpful for me and my wife in our shed project. Thank you.
Go Steelheads!
Genius level. Great job.
CLASSIC! Thank you Sir!!! SALUTE!👍
Thank you....it really goes fast with your gauges. Saludos de Argentina.
I love that this video helped someone so far away from me. Thanks for watching!
This is perfect. Exactly why I come to youtube! Thanks!
Glad it was helpful, Bill!
Very cool and simple. I have a small three side enclosure I have to build for a customer and sure did not want to buy a tool for it. This will be perfect. thanks.
Great! Good luck with your build, and thanks for watching.
Great idea! Thanks for taking time to video it!
Thanks for watching!
I like it. Nice work man. FYI your nailing pattern is expressly verboten in the lp instructions. They want you to nail from one side to the other or from the center out. The theory being that if you nail one end then trap it with the other end it might lead to buckling.
great work man!
Great idea. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Perfect timing- I'm also installing LP Smartside on a shed, and likewise- could not justify spending big bucks on a small job. I also happen to have all the materials on hand- even the strong tie strapping! Great job on video- clear and concise. You make me look like a genius!
Great job building those siding gauges & for the easy to follow instructions. , I need to make a pair. I'm going to be installing the same siding on my garage soon.
Good luck, Monty!
Great idea! I improved it to my liking by using a piece of metal 4 inches long to make a lever, which I just turned sideways a little to release the board instead of unscrewing the wing nut each time. If you round off the top corners you only have to turn it about 30 degrees.
Nice improvement!
Picture of this would be great!
Thanks for sharing these. Made a pair to hang 12 courses of Hardie planks for a home repair job. They worked great.
Awesome!
Yay!
Go BSU!
thanks for the video
Neccity is the mother of invention. Great job!
Neccity?
Wow i was loocking at for some vid like this finnaly i found ,thank You sir greetings from chile and blessings .
I'm glad it was helpful!
Great idea 💪🏽💪🏽👍👍🤯
Thumbs up. Great idea. I soooo need a pair of these.
They are pretty easy to build. Good luck!
I didn't spend the big bucks but I did buy a lesser cost siding clamps. Yours are fashioned after the ones I bought. All the siding manufactures recommend 11/4 inch overlap.
Whaaat hahaha. Nice project and works great. I'll remeber this one.
Yeah - easy way to get a perfect siding installation. Thanks for checking it out!
Saves me $140. I was going to buy those Gecko clamps but now I have an extra $140 for ice-cream 🍦🙏🙂
(Homer Simpson voice) Mmmmmmmmmmm...... ice cream....
Great idea! I am just getting ready to side a building of my own. Wish I had your shop. lol
You can do it!
Nice design, great job.
Thank you very much, Johnny!
Nice. I made a couple of very simple "C" channel type bends in sheet metal that hooks to the bottom edge and clamps by using its own spring pressure that is slightly over bent that makes it stay tight until it's removed. It's 7" and works well. Mine is 2" wide and holds the spring pressure well. An eighth of an inch or less if wider with sharpened bottom edge is all it needs. Yours works well also. Thanks for showing us.
Your design sounds great as well! Thanks for watching!
Ingenious!
Thanks!
That's great thank you.
didnt think you'd get them out but yeh works well fair play to yer mate
I think it's a great idea I just don't have a vice to do it I think I'm just going to get some out of Amazon but there's a great idea good job thank you
Going to make this when I renovate my dads old siding.
Good job bro 👍 creative
Love it
Thanks for watching!
Great tool, 👏👏👏🇨🇱
thanks
Clever!
good job!
Thank you! Cheers!
good tip
good!!!
Have you ever found it cheaper and easier to just build a specialized tool rather than buy an expensive mass-produced version?
What is the thickness of the piece of wood 1/2" or 5/8" at 6:38 it looks like a heavy 1/2" piece
@@craftman5632 It was about 5/8". As I recall I just found a piece of scrap wood that was slightly thicker than the siding itself.
Its works !!! Ths!
thanks, just what I was looking for, I ended up making a pair out of 22ga sheet metal (steel), just bent them into the right shape, nothing else. Not as fancy as your design but very simple
Glad you were able to make something that worked for you. Nice job!
We just bend a backwards "s" out of sheet metal. You set plank on bottom of "s" essentially another set of hands. go nail other side of plank go back to s hanger remove and nail. Makes working solo easy.
That's a great idea!! My only suggestion is to make the hook end at the top less aggressive. A tiny hook would work for its intended purpose and make it a lot easier to remove especially on shorter spans. Amazeballs! 👍 Thanks.
Great tip, Sam. Thank you!
Thanks for the great idea you just saved me $250
Glad I could help, Jeffy!
Thank you for your video. I have a yard shed to side this spring when it warms up and was trying to figure out how to avoid buying the $80 versions of this. I made my totally out of the steel strap you suggested.
Nice!
@@AmplifyDIY I’d be happy to send you a photo, but don’t know how to do that within CZcams.
I'd love to see it! You can email me directly: amplifydiy (at) gmail (dot) com. Thanks!
Thank you! This is gonna save me a whole day of work. Awesome design, great video. Thanks again!
I love it. Gecko gauges are nice, but expensive.
I own a summer home near Show Low AZ. and I am planning to reside it. I'm going to Ace Hardware tomorrow to get my parts to make a set.
Thanks for passing it on.
Good luck!
Get a pair of geckos side your house and selling locally, you will loose probably 15 dollars the same amount you will spend in money and time to make yours. they are real nice.
Awesome how do you like the smartside siding. thinking of doing that siding on my house.
I found it easy to install and lightweight enough for one person to deal with pretty easily. Seems to be holding up well. My house is sides with the same product, and I like it there as well. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video. My son is putting up house siding and tried to buy gauges which can't be found. Your video and explanation is very useful to us.
So glad it was helpful! I linked to some gauges you can just buy in the description, if you prefer not to try to fabricate your own. Good luck with your siding project!
@@AmplifyDIY Thank you. I'll use your pattern first . I'm fairly handy with tools. Then get a commercial gauge if needed. Thanks for the other links.
Thanks for the great video. I am using 12 inch so I guess, I need a 1 inch??? with 11 inch reveal?
I am going to doing about 5 up my house on the bottom due to water damage from sprinkler system,
Thanks again.
That sounds about right. Good luck!
You should pay the extra money for the cement board siding. The fiber board stuff rots out and turns to wet carboard after about 8 years. You are just creating a future problem for yourself or the next owner.
That music make me dance.
*HOW IS THAT CRAP $ 75 THAT'S NUTS HARDWARE STORES ARE LOOSING THERE MINDS AS IF WE ARE BUYING FINE WINES.*
*CONGRATS ON THE VIDEO MAN BY THE WAY I FOUND IT MORE THEN A ++*
What type of siding did you use? Thanks
Hi David - this was SmartSide LP Siding. Picked it up at my local lumber yard. Thanks for watching!
I HATE buying 1 time tools! Gonna make these this afternoon. Thank you
Wow you just saved me $1600 for 4 panels. I almost paid that. I can do this myself
Nice, RJ!
@@AmplifyDIY thank you
At my work we don't use no gauges we just put the siding up by are selfs
How did you run the first course alone?!
Hi T! Great question! I marked the walls where the top of the first course needed to be to create the right overhang and gap to the ground. Then I used a small stack of scrap wood at one end to get it close to correct, and simply lifted the other end up to the line and nailed it in place with a single nail. Then went back to the first end that was resting on the scrap blocks of wood, lifted it the last half inch or so to the correct height, and nailed it in. Then I finished nailing the entire length.
Good luck!
AmplifyDIY Thank you so much for your response. It’s a drag not having a helper! Your video was exactly what I needed when I was blinded by the Texas heat this afternoon and stuck fumbling around with 12 footers! ❤️👍🏽
Ugh. Go get a cold drink of water. You’ve earned it!
I was under the understanding minimum overlap is 1 inch to 3 inches? To sustain a wind 75 miles and hour. The shorter the distance of overlap, the weaker the hold.
The LP Smartside instructions indicate a minimum of 1", maximum of 1 3/8" overlap, with the nails driven 3/4" from the top edge of each course.
@@AmplifyDIY This guy is only using a 7/8" overlap.
Yeah, I did shave 1/8" off the lowest recommended minimum, but I did that for a few good reasons. First, I based that measurement off of matching the exact reveal from the siding on my house. The HOA in my neighborhood is pretty strict with respect to making sheds match houses perfectly, so I could not have a wider reveal on the shed than I do on the house. Secondly, I don't live in a particularly windy area. Third, the shed is situated on my property with my house blocking wind along one side and a fence blocking wind along the other.
Also, I built these gauges specifically with an adjustable setting to allow a range of overlap.
Finally, the 1" minimum is what is recommended for the specific product I installed, but is not a universal number for all siding materials.
Of course, consult the installation instructions for whatever product you are installing and build gauges to fit your specific situation.
Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for watching!
Thanks for saving me a load of money. I owe you a beer
Hey, I’m glad to have been helpful!
You know what would be even better??? If you just built the siding gauges and mailed them to me.
looks like you didn't actually need that little metal retainer after all
Yeah, turns out the weight of the siding was plenty to keep things from slipping. Thanks for watching!
I had purchased the siding gauges from local hardware store today, they were for Hardie plank, 5/16. They were $65, they wouldn't fit the Smart Side planks. Too tight. I'm making a set from your design tomorrow. Thanks
2 THUMBS BUT CAN EASILY BE REFINED BETTER.
10:10
Sweeet
"Don't tell the HOA".
::Posts video on CZcams::
😂
So, you going to sell me a couple of those tools for under five bucks.....lol
I will happily send you the exact ones I built in that video, if I can find them. I may have already given them away to another viewer… I don’t remember exactly where they are.
Sadly, I just dug around in my shop and shed, and I no longer have those siding gauges. I must’ve given them to another viewer already. You can literally build your own for under five dollars following exactly what I did in the video. Good luck!
@@AmplifyDIY Sounds like a polite way of saying no....lol
@@AmplifyDIY Thanks. I'm getting ready to install wood lap siding on a shed.
I thought of one more place to look, and guess what I found! instagram.com/p/B80EKCPgtH-/?igshid=v7kw912tgntz
If you would like to email me your mailing address I will be happy to drop them in the mail to you tomorrow. You can email me at AmplifyDIY@gmail.com.
Best of luck putting the siding on your new shed!
NO NOT UPPER 3/4" 1+
Lot of time spent.
Took less than an hour to build. Worth it to me.
Not a bad idea, but skip the first 7 minutes of BS to get to the meat of it
My apologies you felt the first 7 minutes was a waste of time. I try very hard not to waste any time in any of my videos, but I do want to give some background / explanation about the problem I'll be solving for viewers who may not have any idea what it is that I'm building in the first place. Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for watching!
😏you'r the man!😎
Thanks! Great simple idea and cheap too.
I have to ask though, why in the world would anyone buy a house that's in an HOA???!!!
Hey there berserk - thanks for watching! Virtually all new construction in my city comes with an HOA... we wanted a new home, and that plus a bunch of other positives about the house, location, builder, etc all outweighed a few negatives... such as the HOA requirement.
@@AmplifyDIY I understand, I was just poking fun. HOA's aren't all bad.