" These are red cedar clapboard. "

" Red cedar clapboard, yup."

" This is really an expensive siding material."

" Nice product."

" Yeah."

" And, how do you get started when you got a big job like this ahead of you?-Well, the first thing I like to do is be sure an snap line through all the studs behind the sheeting, so it's shorter to him them, so you have a----"

" So you have a----"

" vertical chalk lines in place every 16 inches to show you where the studs are."

" That's right."

" And what are the horizontal lines that you were just snapping?"

" This is where the tops of the clapboards are gonna go. Snap them all ahead of time and you do the top, that way you don't covered them as you putting them on."

" Yeah, now this is what can get a real confusing because how do you figure out how much of the clapboards to leave exposed, where to get started etc?"

" Okay. Well, for this what we use it's called a storey pole."

" A storey pole."

" And what's important is the front of the house so I've taken the storey pole, brought it around to the front of the house and mark on it where the apron of the window out in front is."

" The apron is the window sill at the bottom."

" That's right. And so, the clapboard that hits that window apron wants to come into it just like that."

" So that you have one nice continuous line."

" That's right. And so what I've done is taking the storey pole right around to the side here----"

" Yeah."

" and we have on this particular house when the builder built it, he put aground."

" Oh, down there."

" All around the bottom of it, which is a nice reference point for us."

" So, that is like a level line that goes around the whole house."

" That's right."

" That makes it easier."

" So we just put the storey pole for that----"

" Right around here. We know that the clapboard wants to come in to this point here."

" Yeah."

" This clapboard is 5 and 3/8 inches height, so I marked the top of the clapboard. Now, we want our quarters to be 4 inches thereabout----"

" Thereabout."

" to the whaler."

" Yeah."

" So, taking in the bottom first, the clapboard where we want them to end up that is 37-1/2 inches----"

" Yeah."

" divided x 4; we come up with 9 quarters----"

" Right."

" and 4 and an 8th or 1/8 inch quarter; we get [unk]."

" So that extra 8 of an inch will make the [unk] back there as it where."

" That's right. That'll bring it right into it."

" [unk]."

" That's what I was just doing with [unk]."

" Just put some of these in place."

" Okay, now cedar clapboards come with a dressed and a rough side and I noticed you're using the rough side exposed to the weather."

" Yes, well, that's just a matter of choice and the owner here preferred to have the rough side out."

" Yeah, that's rough and it takes stain in paint a lot better than the dressed or standard side, which sometimes is really a nightmare to keep painted. What kind of nails are we using Riley?"

" We're using galvanized 5-penny box nail Bob. And the other thing we wanna be sure to do is always start with 2 courses on the bottom, so that where we have a joint right over here----"

" There's something behind it."

" That's right."

" Yeah because otherwise you would have the joint breaking right over the plywood."

" Right."

" Okay, this is one going next?"

" Right."

" Yup."

" We'll just hold the top of that to that line."

" Right to the chalk line."

" That's right here we presents snapping line on the clapboards themselves in getting track all over them, which makes it kind of an messy job."

" Now listen, the next question it has to do with the lengths that you're putting on here----"

" Right."

" because it's like you staggering and you kinda creating a pyramid, an inverted pyramid here, why is that?"

" Well, there's a number of reason for that Bob. For instance, we definitely wanna have staggered joints. I like to have at least 15 inches apart."

" Now the reason is when you're working you don't wanna be running horizontally up and down the building. You wanna stay on one spot."

" In one area."

" Pull as high as you can and then move."

" Yeah."

" Now, and the other reason is this is really a starter course, and as you see when I get up to here, I have a little starter----"

" [unk] there."

" 8 inches and then you should have a corresponding piece of this tail in of the----"

" Right."

" house at the same distance, look at that."

" Now, you'll have very little weight this way, it sounds like."

" Yeah."