How to install tongue and groove siding.
How to install tongue and groove cedar siding.
Wider siding should be face nailed using two nails per piece.
We used 1 1 4 long 1 4 galvanized staples to install this cedar.
For a less pronounced reveal attach strips of 3 8 inch pressure treated plywood to the insides of the corner trims and install the corners before you install the siding.
You can use your circular saw set to the depth of just the back part of the groove.
Step 2 prep wall surface.
Siding up to 6 inches wide can be blind nailed with one siding nail per bearing toe nailed through the base of each tongue.
This is called blind nailing the only location that we installed fasteners in the face of the cedar was at the top where a trim board was covering it.
Insert your new board s tongue into your old board s groove and lay the new board s front groove over the other old board s tongue.
Before beginning a siding project you must first ascertain how much.
Carefully slice the back part of the groove of your replacement board but leave the front part of the groove attached.
Tongue groove installation tongue and groove siding can be installed horizontally or vertically.
Once all the supplies are obtained siding included you still aren t quite ready to begin the.
You may choose to install corner trim first and butt the siding up to it as shown.
In horizontal application start at the bottom and work up with the groove edges facing downwards.