How To Start 3 4 Tongue And Grove Siding

This is part 1 of a 3 part series.

How to start 3 4 tongue and grove siding.

Carefully slice the back part of the groove of your replacement board but leave the front part of the groove attached. If the siding is up to 6 inches wide it can be nailed with one siding nail per bearing but siding any wider should use two nails per bearing. Wider siding should be face nailed using two nails per piece. Vertical tongue and grove siding corners.

In horizontal application start at the bottom and work up with the grove edges facing downwards to assure a weather tight wall. In horizontal application start at the bottom and work up with the groove edges facing downwards. Nails must penetrate 1 1 4 inches into solid wood. Installing tongue and groove walls can be a real workout.

The paneling will be nailed directly to these furring strips. Nail up the first panel at a corner of the room with the tongue side facing out. Siding up to 6 inches wide can be blind nailed with one siding nail per bearing toe nailed through the base of each tongue. 3 tongue and groove isn t always flat so you have to force the boards together to get them seated.

Start at a far wall for vertical boards and at the floor for horizontal boards. Figure 3 tongue and groove vertical siding lapped corner. How to install tongue and groove siding. 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.

The tongue section of the board should be at the top with the groove section at the bottom. Run a bead of construction adhesive down the back of. To install tongue and groove paneling vertically begin by nailing 1 by 3 furring strips horizontally either directly to the wall studs on a new wall or over the drywall on a finished wall. The stales are installed every 12 into the tongue of the board and are covered and hidden by the next boards groove is installed.

Wide can be blind nailed with one casing 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. You can use your circular saw set to the depth of just the back part of the groove. Siding up to 6 in.

2 you have to seat the tongues and grooves together and they don t always want to marry. The corner conditions both exterior and interior are most easily handled by lapping boards. 1 you re usually working over your head. You will have to cut the board lengthwise as shown in figure 3 in order for it to fit.

Insert a 1 2 inch spacer between the board and starting edge.