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Working With the Exterior Trim

Bob meets with Bob Ryley and creates a new/old overhang detail with eyebrow returns and cedar plywood siding.
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Working With the Exterior Trim

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" The end missiles vent system which of course is on the roof as well side makes us. Treat that the building a little bit differently in terms of applying trim. Night require -- applied after the fact yes and what is really interesting about this -- is because -- rake boards. I'm projecting beyond the gable and it gives us this interesting. Piece of trim bringing in around Connor. And erase board down on top of -- which yeah and then we're looking at the finished product earlier but here. We get we should climb up a little bit hybrid here we can see that essentially you framed a box framed the black exactly right and it is that the box has nothing to do with the actual structure not -- dissolve applied after the fact and then the ends of the and so spent panels are. Right there were we're looking at those and so what we're doing is where. In these jacks blocks on. And they're gonna receive not to. All right -- blocks and basically allow us to create. An old time looking over bankers this and a horizontal flat board on bottle would -- about the bottom would correspond with that. But the call ventured exactly that's. OK and then this piece. Which. Basically is vertical would be called the fascia -- the facie case. Now why do they cut the that joint there bonuses it's at a party five or whether cut and what this than those when the wood. Shrinks it's not going to be exposed to the weather is -- is the world but generally glue won't you won't creating -- the way above jointly. Now the reason for using stainless steel. With cedar. You've seen right sustainment with a galvanized and still get some oxidation. Of blacks and -- exactly exactly and then this is the final piece. Which is this. It's the second piece of that stationary just give it just -- and some nice lines writes about the -- now the the open area above it will remain open right. We're going to keep that open and then we've got the the around the metal roof going on top of that exactly we're gonna learn more about that in a week -- but the metal roofing system will come right to the intestinal being pretentious corporate. Election night or on the front and take a look at this plot gets started put some of that that's that's got. OK we'll -- we put any of the plywood up where. Opening up the house wrap up they can't -- But it -- this is good looking stuff it's beautiful and it's red cedar and -- are ready. With a ship lap totally when you have your joints coming together you know you you don't have to butt joints between have a ship Latino. -- who have and then we've put in this this is a rather kind again in this is because they were coming for a long time children's obviously longer than that so we're gonna. Come together we want have a 45. Overlap in the sea treaty off there you've already cut out one quarter of it. Right that's how did you determine that angle now we know them that brought about the differences and find five degree themselves. So it's a 45 degree angle cut that's right we're gonna stock from the Senate and work close to the left and right side OK so that the write down the middle of the regions where you have -- it's accurate."

" You know -- to steer clients really awesome look at the grain up there when these two sheets come together. You're really gonna see it at -- stuff yeah this is made by. -- fly which is part of a company called -- one in. Northwest Washington but it's an Alaskan native corporations. And they're the only regular producers of the stuff all right."

" Right well as it turns out cedar apply is the only regular producer of western red cedar plywood siding. In the united."

" And what's interesting is that it's a native owned corporation which means that they're really sensitive to preserving. The trees up there in the environment. And I've been nearing -- able to provide more surface area of this gorgeous wood -- using less."

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