How To Install Spruce Clapboard Siding

Place nail just above the overlap.

How to install spruce clapboard siding.

Take care not to nail through the overlap of two pieces. Penetration into solid wood using one ring shank nail per stud spaced at a maximum of 24 in. Work has begun on the exterior finish. Contractors are installing the cedar trim casing and grounds and continue on to begin installing the clapboard siding.

Installing wood siding is not an overly difficult process but there are some keys to a successful project. By carter silva on february 6 2015. In my last article i wrote about installing a fence post. Use a strip the same thickness as the top of.

Put a level starter strip around the house at the bottom of the wall as a starting point for clapboard and to mark the bottom for the corner boards. Natural wood siding lap clapboard or beveled is still a common exterior finish. Although it was dirty and hard work i enjoyed every minute of it. Keep nails in 1 from edges.

Install clapboards by face nailing them to the house studs with 1 1 4 in. Join the clapboards with scarf joints as in step 3. If more than one clapboard is needed to span a wall snap a chalk line between the marks on the corner boards on top of the course being overlapped. Seeing that fence post today standing plumb and solid makes me feel glad that all the steps i did were well worth it.

Step 8 siding beside windows photo by david carmack. Nail the clapboard to the studs.