this blog is a record of the house that I helped to build along with my class during the Carpentry pretrade course I did at SIT chch

Thursday, 3 May 2012

Exterior wall cladding

In this post I will tell and show you about the exterior wall cladding.
To start we wrapped the house then fixed cavity batterns for the weather boards to fix to.
Once all the windows and doors were in we started fixing the weather boards.
Once this was done we hand cut scribers for the windows and doors and fixed corner caps

the house wrapped
the other side
from the inside
weatherboards with cavity batterns, note vermin strip at bottom
boards joined over battern
progress so far

Me predrilling nail holes
measure twice, cut once
Me cutting boards
Me fixing boards
Me using nail gun to tack boards prenailing
Me making a scriber 
scriber during cutting
Me cutting the scriber
My  scriber in place
close up
window sill going on
corner capping

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