Clapboard Siding Exposure

To ensure that the courses are evenly spaced make a swing stick from a straight 1x3 at least 6 feet long.

Clapboard siding exposure. It also features the patented studfinder is designed for accurate and secure installation. Hardieplank lap siding is not just our best selling product it s the most popular brand of siding in america. Install clapboards by face nailing them to the house studs with 1 1 4 in. A 6 inch wide clapboard with a 1 inch overlap has a 5 inch exposure exposure has to be decided before you order because it determines how wide your siding will be how much you will need and how it will look once it s installed.

Penetration into solid wood using one ring shank nail per stud spaced at a maximum of 24 in. Estimate the number of boards needed for a project in a few simple steps. Cedarboards single seven inch clapboard insulated siding is highly impact resistant and offers advantages such as thermal benefits and sound absorption in a beautiful flat faced panel with truetexture rough cedar finish. Other in stock profiles include 1 2 x 4 1 2 x 8 and 3 4 x 10.

The portion that s visible not overlapped is called the exposure. Spacing can be changed or tweaked in order to get the siding to land on top of doors and windows. Starting at either end make a series of marks along one edge each equal to the clapboard s exposure to the weather. Mark an arrow on the end of the stick where you began measuring.

The most common size used x 6 is available as solid wood or finger joined both in primed and unprimed. Many people install 5 1 2 with a 4 exposure to the weather. The recommended exposure distances exposure distance is the amount of siding left exposed to the weather are 4 inches for 6 inch siding 8 inches for 10 inch siding and so on as shown in figure 3. For 6 inch siding that s 4 1 2 inches.

The boards overlap each other and are only partially exposed to the elements to keep the building water tight.