" -Well, we're about to start trimming out the house here under the porch, and this is all western red cedar that's pre-primed. It comes up here from our friends at Weyerhaeuser, and one of the interesting things is that it's finger jointed, which means that all the flaws that might have been there are taken out and the wood is put back together so that you get very strong, very stable, wonderful stuff to work with. All the carpenters on the job are very excited. Now, let's talk a little bit about what the objective is here. We have clapboard siding, and we have full 2 by stock for trim. And, what we're about to do is show you how the corner boards get put in, how the 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 clapboards out. And Kevin, you've already got one piece ready to go here."

" -That's correct."

" -And let's go ahead and put it in. Now this is what's called the ground where we came from, kind of. But, 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 clack it. But this is the best way to do it."

" -It gives it a real spot for the clapboard to stop. Clapboard is not meant to butt together at her interior and 90-degree angle."

" -Exactly. And we're just hand nailing it, but we'll be shooting some of the rest of it. Now, the other thing that before we get too far along with the trim, I wanted to talk about this is the narrow line window from Andersen, which is, again, design wise, a really good choice for this house because it looks like a turn of the century, you know, 2 over 2 window, which is what was very common in this kind of architecture in the late 1800, 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. You can see it's already in place here. So that tucks in under where the clapboards will come down. The porch roof hasn't been put down yet, but this is a good touch, even under a porch roof like we have here. It's a nice touch because it insure that you're gonna have a very dry bottom there. What's next?"

" -The corner boards, Bob. Let's put them together."

" -Alright. Now these are also being made out of 2 by stock, right?"

" -That's correct. 2 x 6."

" -It's a pleasure to nail through this red cedar. It really is nice."

" -Beautiful, beautiful stock. You'll really appreciate it when we put it up and see how straight it is."

" -Okay. The reason why we're using such heavy stock is that the clapboards that we're gonna be putting up in here are wide enough that you need this full width. Otherwise, they would project out. You'll see that in a minute. Alright, well now we'll go from corner boards to talking about casing this window. And again, we're using this heavy stock, But one thing that's a good idea when you've got windows like this that are attached with a flange, one thing you can do is you can take your casing stock, and through a table saw, rip off a blade width just like that so that when you apply it over that flange, it sits perfectly flat and flush. If 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, which doesn't look as good. What about the apron?"

" -Well, that's out windowsill, Bob. This is our 4 x 4 western red cedar. We've beveled the front of it for water runoff and it will fit up underneath there like that."

" -Right."

" -You can see how we continue the sill. We still got some work to do to this one. 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. It doesn't run back. And then we're gonna put a notch back in here for the siding to fit up into. And we're gonna run that through the saw now."

" -Alright, so this has been prepared, and we can put it into place, and we're gonna be installing and using this 3-inch screws. Great. And what's nice is we've got the notch already precut so that when it's time to put the claps in place, that notch allows the clapboards to go in neatly instead of having to notch out the clapboard and have it sit on top of the impact, but now we're ready for our casings. Got the header ready?"

" -Yes sir."