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Installing the Cedar Trim and Clapboard Siding

Bob and Kevin begin on the exterior finish by installing the cedar trim, casing and grounds. They continue on to begin installing the siding after the break.
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Installing the Cedar Trim and Clapboard Siding

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" Well we're about to start trimming out the house here it under the -- and this is all western red cedar that's preprimed comes up here from. Our friends at Weyerhaeuser one of the interesting things is that it's finger jointed. Which means that all the the flaws that might have been there -- Taken out in the wood is put back together so that you get very strong very stable wonderful stuff to work with all the carpenters -- very excited. Now let's talk a little bit about what the objective is here. We have. Clapboard siding and we have full 22 by stock for trim. And what we're about to do is show you how the corner boards get put in public trim. What we call in New England the grounds get put in in the inside corners. How we case out the window and then how we put the clapboard and Kevin you've already got one piece ready to go here that's correct let's go ahead and put it -- now this is what's called the ground. Where where we came from kind of but not very often in some construction. Clapboards will just be butted into the inside corner and they'll allow the painting contractors to come along and -- But this is the best way to do it. -- you -- rails spot for the clapboard to stop -- what's not meant to butt together at the interior ninety degree angle exactly. And we're just hand nailing it but we'll -- shooting for the rest -- now. The other thing that before we get too far along with the trim I wanted to talk about this is the that -- window from Andersen which is again design was a really good choice for this house as it looks like a turn of the century. You know two over two window which. Is what was very common in this kind of architecture in the late eighteen hundred's but it is you know state of the art in terms of the year 2000 everything is clad everything is pre finished. This is flashing that gets placed at the bottom -- already in place here. So that tucks in under where the clapboard will come down. The porch roof hasn't been put down yet but this is an good touch even under a porch roof like we have here it's a nice -- does it does insure that you're gonna have a very. Dry bottom there what's next. What about Bob let's all right. And these are also being made out of two by stock right that's correct two by six. It's pleasure to nail through the red cedar really is nice beautiful beautiful stuff. We'll really appreciate it only put it up -- straight at us. OK. The reason why we're using such heavy stock is that the clapboard that we're gonna be putting on here park. Why then after that you need this full width otherwise they would project got to see that in a minute of the all right we'll now go from corner boards to talking about casing this window. And again we're using this heavy stock but. One thing that's good idea when you've got windows like this that are attached with a flange went -- you can do as you can take your casing stock and the -- through a table saw rip off a blade with just like that -- so that when you apply it over that -- Print it sits. Perfectly flat and flush it didn't do that you might end up with a casing stock just a little bit at a cant just a little bit at an angle out like that -- doesn't look as good."

" What about the apron. -- windowsill Bob these are all but what western red cedar we've beveled the front of it for water runoff and it'll fit up underneath there like that right. Continue to sell the -- marketed -- we need to add a couple of important things we need to add a drip curve right here which is really just. A blade. Run through the table saw so any water that runs off here catches there and drips doesn't run back and then we're gonna put a notch back in here. For the siding to fit up into we're gonna run that he."

" All right so this has been prepared. And we can put it into place and we're going to be installing it amusing. The three inch screws. Great and what's nice is we've got the notch already precut so that when it's time that but the claps in place that notch. Allows the clapboard to go in neatly instead of having a notch out the clapboard and have -- sit on top of the impact but now we're ready for our casings."

" Get better -- it. --"

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