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Adding Clapboard Siding

Riley explains the installation process for the new clapboard being installed. Using a story pole, they are able to keep a consistent level line around the entire exterior of the house. Using galvanized nails, the boards are added in a staggered pattern for better visual appearance and weather protection.

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" These are red cedar clapboard -- really expensive siding material its product. And how -- you get started yet. I think I can do it then be sure to snap lines throughout behind. -- Hit them. Vertical chalk line raised every sixteen -- that you wouldn't. What are the horizontal lines that you're just gonna. This that it would pop of the clapboards are going to -- it happened while at a time and do the hot that way you know covenant that you're putting them on and others and we'll get real confusing just how do you figure our. How much of the clapboard to leave exposed where to get started. Carol that is what we use. Other stories tall historical and what's important is the front of the house -- taken the story Albright and around the front of the house. And mark on yet. Where the apron the window out in front if we're is that that -- that's right and clapboard. That hits that. Window apron like the peninsula just like that we have one night line that's right. And so I'd done is taken with -- all of right around the side here yeah and we have on this particular house and the builder built it. He put a ground down there color around the -- No reference points are so that is like a level line that goes -- no outcry and cities is that this article that. Right around here know that the clapboard like -- and at this point here. Clapboard is five and create into his eyes. Off the clapboards now we want our courses to be. Four inches thereabouts they're about to yeah. Taking. A lot of -- Clapboard. That we want to end up 37 inches yeah I have I thought. -- And coolest -- that extra eighth of an inch who will make the fudge factor -- That don't have put some of these in place. OK up cedar clapboards come with -- dressed and a rough side and noticed you're using the rough side exposed web. Yes well that's a matter of right in the order. Yeah around portrait at the map that out that's rough and it takes stain and paint a lot better than the -- side. Which sometimes is really a nightmare to keep it. We'll toenail to -- using. Galvanized an IP block now. And the other thing we want to be your. Kids so I can't I was that was put on. -- Here. There's something behind. Yes otherwise you'd have yet like written right over the life. OK -- we going next. Right get a chalk line. Yeah it would prevent snapping lines on -- Make -- I was in the next question has to do we. The -- that you're putting on here if it's like you're staggering and you're kind of creating pyramid an inverted pyramid why that. Well at remembering that the birth that we happen anyway at stagnant mind I -- and I. -- very -- is when you're working you don't want to be running. Horizontally -- and -- the building north and we want well there I think and then move. And the other reason is that. This is really radicalized. Me when I get up here. -- inches. And you should have a corresponding piece at its tail end of the right. House. And I don't have very little waste this way they'll right."

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