How To Start 3 4 Tongue And Gtove Siding

Sheathing should be a minimum of 5 8 inch thick and 3 4 inch thick is even.

How to start 3 4 tongue and gtove siding.

Secure the first row by nailing into the tongue to the joist or furring strip and secure the groove side of the plank by face nailing into the joist. 3 tongue and groove isn t always flat so you have to force the boards together to get them seated. Wider siding should be face nailed using two nails per piece. Carefully slice the back part of the groove of your replacement board but leave the front part of the groove attached.

The fun with this kind of millwork is in the name. Siding up to 6 inches wide can be blind nailed with one siding nail per bearing toe nailed through the base of each tongue. Nails must penetrate 1 1 4 inches into solid wood. Nail up the first panel at a corner of the room with the tongue side facing out.

Time for the fun part adding tongue and groove boards. 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. Insert the nails into the tongue at an angle and use enough force to have the nail flush with the surface of the tongue. This is called blind nailing the only location that we installed fasteners in the face of the.

Installing tongue and groove walls can be a real workout. We used 1 1 4 long 1 4 galvanized staples to install this cedar. With tongue and groove planks each piece has a side where there is a groove cut along the length of the board and a side where a tongue runs the length of the board. Siding up to 6 in.

Tongue and groove siding can be installed horizontally or vertically. Install the plank with groove closest to the wall. 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.

2 you have to seat the tongues and grooves together and they don t always want to marry. 1 you re usually working over your head. Wide can be blind nailed with one casing nail per bearing toe nailed through the base of each tongue. The stales are installed every 12 into the tongue of the board and are covered and hidden by the next boards groove is installed.

In order to provide a good nailing surface for vertically installed tongue and groove siding figure 1 the plywood sheathing underneath vertical siding should be thicker than that used for horizontal siding applications. How to install vertical tongue and grove siding. When installing being by nailing one board to the top of the wall. 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.