Installing Exterior Shiplap Siding
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2019
- In this video I show you step-by-step how we put up the cedar shiplap on our tiny house.
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You're an excellent teacher. If you had in-person tiny-home building classes (whenever that is possible), I am sure there would be significant demand.
Since siding is usually installed after the soffit, leveling your first course may be counter-productive. If the soffit isn't level, the mistake will show if the siding is level. This is why many installers set the first course by measuring down from the soffit and adjusting the starting course to "what is".
Also, the best practice is to make a story pole for the height of the wall that shows where your siding will line up with your windows and soffit. This way you can adjust the location of your starting course up or down so you don't end up with narrow siding strips around the window
For those that may not know, cedar is also the lightest wood that is strong enough to build an entire house out of plus it SUPER rot resistant.
the process engineer in my wants to make an aluminum jig that has the holes in it to pre-drill the cedar, rather than using the square. Kudos on how accurate and consistent your holes are though.
very nice work , the combination square is such a simple tool but so many uses, great job!
Great video brother. I’m building a shed that will have shiplap siding with some metal and this was very helpful.
Thanks for pointing out some good tips that I hadn’t considered relevant before. Your video was very explicit in the methodology, well done!
Best video I've seen so far on shiplap. I start a project tomorrow and I've never installed this material. I've done cedar clapboard and I've done tongue and groove, but this is slightly different. Thanks for the information.
I appreciate you referring to the wood as “precious resource”. And to be thinking about multiple life cycles of the material. It does not take much effort to do, yet few take the time and attention.
Thank you! I am doing shiplap siding on my exterior too! You answered a lot of questions I had.
Wow! You are so detailed and meticulous! Thank you for sharing your time and talent! God Bless you!!!
Thank you.
Im burning my ship lap for my off grid cabin.
I appreciate this a lot.
thanks for that you really cover all the bases .im about to insulate and clad my log cabin so that was really helpful
Great presentation! Good looking tiny house 😎
Great video, well put together and thought out.
Great video & presentation. You should do a full building a tiny house course. I would definitely buy that.
Differential moisture uptake. Dude. You're cool. Very informative. Great video
Great detailed video. My husband and I are wanting to do an accent cedar wall on the exterior on our home that’s in our porch entryway. Where can I find this type of shiplap? Thank you so much!!
I followed your instructions on an exterior wall and it looks great. I know you advise caulking around the window, but what about caulking where the siding meets the outside window trim and corner trim? ( I left 1/2"gaps for airflow on the top and bottom of window, and on top and bottom of the wall as well.) Any recommendations?
Most people don't know. But the 2 nipples are KO for mounting screws. You just tap them out, that way you don't have to drill the box.
Thanks! Just what I needed.
Great explanation!
When driving screws into (most) woods with my impact driver I stop just before the head touches the wood. I then take out my ratchet wrench and hand tighten the screw until the head seats just slightly below the surface of the wood. This way I don’t overdrive my screws
If Moby was a craftsman he'd look like you. 👍🏾
Great video man. I'm only building a small outdoor storage cupboard but going to be using shiplap panels, and so far nearly every video I watched - everyone was putting them in with nails. I prefer to screws but wondered if this was wrong/strange/just not how it's done by the pros. Looking at your video, I agree that those gold screws really do add a nice touch. Thanks for the tips too. Well received all the way from England!
I would stick with stainless trim screws instead of the gold ones, The gold ones say they can be used for exterior but I’m seeing a little bit of streaking were the house gets wet
@@actuallytiny2537 hey man, thanks for taking the time to reply and really appreciate your honesty on the screws. Noted for when the time comes 👍🏻
As long as they're stainless, you can use screws or nails. The advantage of screws is you can easily remove and replace each piece, and you can drill through nails in the sheathing. If you hit a sheathing nail with a siding nail it often horseshoes and comes back out the face of your board and ruins it. The pros use nails because it's about a hundred times quicker. When you install siding all day every day, that adds up to money. I also have used pre finished deck screws. They are the same exact screw shown in the video but painted to avoid weathering.
Anywhere to get that beautiful clear grade cedar online? My local lumber yard charges unreal money for it.
Great vid 👍 awsome job
Hi, I live in the Portland area and I am looking all over for some shiplap siding. Where did you get yours???? PLZ help :)
Very Good Blog
And what tool did you use to do the Custom cut?
Where is best to buy the shiplap? Wood yard or Lowe's \ Home Depot?
Any tips on installing this over a concrete exterior wall?
Could it be installed in a vertical orientation?
@15.44 what type of Furring Strip ?
Lookd Like Pressure Treated Plywood that you Ripped Down ?
what Size ?
3/8" x 1"
what Size also is the Ship LAP
Why did you choose wood siding over steel "faux woodgrain" shiplap? Price? I'm in a fire area so leaning towards steel siding. Also, you are a great teacher!
We chose wood because it’s what we could get locally at a good price but I don’t have any problem with metal siding except for the fact that it turns your house into a faraday cage so if you have a steel roof good luck getting Wi-Fi from the outside and it’s also gonna knock down your cellular. This is one of the big reasons that we went with a hybrid metal/wood siding approach. I made sure that the areas that were wood are on the side that the Wi-Fi comes from!
What would you do to add shiplap to a house with stucco exterior? Add plywood strips first?
I think that would be a bad idea, but I don't have the experience to really say, I think it would depend on how the wall is built overall.
I like this install method. My only concern is wont the fasteners rust and then run down your siding?
You're supposed to use stainless fasteners for cedar. I've seen deck screws used a lot, too.
These fasteners were spec’d as corrosion resistant (similar to deck screws) but we definitely see wood discoloration in exposed areas a year in. We’d preferred the gold look, but to do it again we’d use the stainless.
Are you in the south eastern part of Tennessee? Just to find an honest person, to give advice on projects. This was very interesting.
We are in Oregon
Can you stain the cedar after being installed?
You can but paint doesnt like the tanins the cedar has in it.
If you do.....oil prime 2 coats and then paint.
🙏
What is the cost of this project?
Great video but I thought you didn’t need to put spacers for nickel gap shiplap
Why didn't you put one screw on the rabbit and the other on the bottom of the bard instead of the middle of the boards ?
Aren't you supposed to use stainless steel fasteners with cedar?
These fasteners were advertised as rated for cedar, but they did end up staining. Next time we’d 100% use stainless.
Why put screws on the face of the boards and not in the lips of the boards (finish nails)
Screws mean the siding can easily be removed in the future and repurposed for sheds and things when it’s time to reside the house. We also liked the look of the exposed fasteners.
no flashing about electrical box is a no no... to say the least overall
You might be right, Back in the day when we just nailed siding directly over tarpaper I always put a Z flash over something like this, But in this application with the box glued to the outside of the Tyvek with Vulkem and then a 3/8 inch air space to the back of the siding which is also caulked to the box with Vulkem, Also this only being a few inches from the bottom of the wall I just had a pretty hard time visualizing how you could possibly get water intrusion past the weather barrier. The water would have to break past the siding to box Vulkem, move an inch and a half horizontally backwards and then somehow infiltrate vertically downwards through 2 inches of box glued to wall with Vulkem, to find its way to the hole in the weather barrier that the wire is going through. I think if it was up higher on a non-overhang wall I might think differently but it just didn’t seem like a real world concern in this application.